Theatre Design & Technology - Summer 2020 - 26

BARD THEATER & PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

Da te
Tuesday, May 19

PRESENTS

MAD
FOREST

Wednesday, May 20

Thursday, May 21

A Play from Romania

Time

Fisher Center at Bard - Mad Forest - TFANA Remount Production Schedule
VERSION 05/19/2020
Wha t

Who

Where

6:00PM 3:00pm (PST)

Camera/Mic Check

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

6:15PM 3:15pm (PST)

Work Transitions and Tech

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

10:00PM 7:00pm (PST)

End of Day (Cast)

4:30PM 1:30pm (PST)

Crew Call

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

5:00PM 2:00pm (PST)

Camera/Mic Check

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

5:15PM 2:15pm (PST)

Tech Rehearsal

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

7:30PM 4:30pm (PST)

MEAL BREAK

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

8:00PM 5:00pm (PST)

Tech Rehearsal

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

11:00PM 8:00pm (PST)

End of Day (Cast)

4:30PM 1:30pm (PST)

Crew Call

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

5:00PM 2:00pm (PST)

Camera/Mic Check

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

5:15PM 2:15pm (PST)

Tech Rehearsal

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

6:15PM 3:15 (PST)

Break

6:30pm 3:30PM (PST)

1/2 Hour

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

7:00pm 4:00pm (PST)

Dress Rehearsal

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

8:45pm 5:45pm (PST)

Break

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

9:00pm 6:00pm (PST)

Notes

FULL COMPANY

ZOOM

10:30PM 7:30pm (PST)

End of Day (Cast)

4:30PM 1:30pm (PST)

Crew Call

Run Crew

ZOOM

5:00PM 2:00pm (PST)

Camera, Mic, LX, Zoom
Check, Into costumes

FULL COMPANY, Sarah,
Paul, Abby, Afsoon, Asta

ZOOM

6:30PM 3:30pm (PST)

1/2 Hour

ALL

ZOOM

Directed by Ashley Tata

7:00PM 4:00pm (PST)

Performance 1

FULL COMPANY &
Creative Team

ZOOM

End of Performance

End of Day - All

April 10, 2020

3:30PM 12:30pm (PST)

Crew Call

Run Crew

ZOOM

7 pm EST Live Webcast

4:00PM 1:00pm (PST)

Camera, Mic, LX, Zoom
Check, Into costumes

FULL COMPANY, Sarah,
Paul, Abby, Afsoon, Asta

ZOOM

4:30PM 1 :30pm (PST)

1/2 Hour

ALL

ZOOM

5:00PM 2:00pm (PST)

Performance 2

FULL COMPANY &
Creative Team

ZOOM

End of Performance

End of Day - All

1:30PM 10:30am (PST)

Crew Call

Run Crew

ZOOM

2:00PM 11:00am (PST)

Camera, Mic, LX, Zoom
Check, Into costumes

FULL COMPANY, Sarah,
Paul, Abby, Afsoon, Asta

ZOOM

2:30PM 11:30am (PST)

1/2 Hour

ALL

ZOOM

3:00PM 12:00pm (PST)

Performance 3

FULL COMPANY &
Creative Team

ZOOM

End of Performance

End of Day - All

By Caryl Churchill

Friday, May 22

Notes

TBC

Saturday, May 23 - DAY OFF

Sunday, May 24

Preshow begins at 6:30 pm EST
YouTube Live: bit.ly/MadForestYT

TBC

Monday, May 25 - DAY OFF
Tuesday, May 26 - DAY OFF

Facebook Live: bit.ly/MadForestFB
The live webcast of Mad Forest is a project of UPSTREAMING: the Fisher Center at Bard's
Virtual Stage.

fishercenter.bard.edu/upstreaming/

Wednesday, May 27

TBC

Program with digital links and the rehearsal schedule for the TFANA remount of Bard College's Mad Forest. | Courtesy of Eamonn Farrell.
Join the experience! We invite you to share your real-time feedback during the webcast via the chat/comment feature. We'll pass along
to the actors and creative team. #UPSTREAMINGFC #MADFORESTFC

that is flexibly Mac and PC-based. 
ZoomOSC currently only operates
on PCs and can be run on an inexpensive PC desktop. Regular Zoom can also
be used with an operator manually selecting the dropdowns and Spotlighting
performers, but the speed of the camera cuts will be limited by the interface.
Depending on the project, Isadora can
either run on that same PC, a separate
PC, or on a Mac. The streaming software
OBS (Open Broadcasting Software)
should run on whatever machine is not
running Isadora in order to distribute
the video processing load. On the PC,
the Zoom window is placed on a second
monitor and uses an HDMI distribution
amplifier to split the video feed and send
it into an external capture card (such as
Blackmagic Ultrastudio Mini Recorder)
into the second machine. Another option
is to use an instance of OBS on the PC
to capture the Zoom window on the external monitor and send it into Isadora
using the OBS Camera as an Isadora
input. NDI can also be used to send and
capture video feeds. Isadora has recently
added a "Capture Screen" plugin that

operates in a similar way to the screen
capture in OBS. Also, all of the software
can be run on a single PC, provided the
CPU and video processing capacities of
the machine are sufficient.
With Zoom in dual monitor mode,
users can add another monitor to the setup and capture a second Zoom window,
which permits programming crossfades
between two Zoom feeds or creating
composites of two simultaneous feeds.
The Mad Forest team called this technique the "double green screen deluxe"
and used it to create a "ghost scene" between two performers in the TFANA remount of Mad Forest. It is very easy to
get the output of Isadora into OBS on a
Mac using the "Syphon Stage Output"
actor in Isadora and the "Syphon Client"
in OBS. On a PC, the Isadora output can
be captured in OBS by adding a "Display
Capture" source and targeting the output
display of Isadora.
Getting Zoom audio into OBS can
be a bit trickier. One approach is to install
Soundflower and set Soundflower as the
Speaker in Zoom's Audio settings. Then
Soundflower is set as one of the Mic/

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Auxillary Audio Input Devices in OBS.
Soundflower can also be used to get audio from Qlab into OBS if one wants to
run the sound on the streaming machine.
Monitor the stream audio in OBS by
selecting the settings wheel next to the
audio meter in the main OBS window,
selecting "Advanced Audio Properties,"
and selecting your desired monitoring
preferences. While in those settings, users can tweak the "Sync Offset" and set
it to somewhere in the range of 100 ms
depending on the video processing demands and the speed of the machine's
processor. The reason for this offset is
that the extra video processing is going
to cause the program video to go out of
sync with the Zoom sound. Conveniently,
users can compensate for this in OBS
by delaying (or offsetting) the audio
feed. In order to get Zoom audio into
OBS on a PC, use Virtual Audio Cable,
which functions much like Soundflower
does on a Mac. Blackhole is a newer option for virtual audio routing on a Mac,
and apparently it will be released for
Windows soon. Regardless of the setup,
it is important to monitor the audio that
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