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Dramaturgy Crash Lab

Can acting be measured the way a crash test is measured?

132 vignettes for Bola, Shim and Dot in a measured bay, including the 32 Acting Arena challenges, each scored for weight, feet, hands and contact.

21 sheets · Oct 16 17:34 to Oct 16 19:20

How it was made

  1. Build the bay: grid floor, scale marks and fixed camera positions, so every scene is filmed against the same measures.
  2. Write each vignette as a small drama: a letter opened, a shoulder touched, a door pushed, a stair missed.
  3. Run each world through the checker and record the instrument readings beside the film.

What this case teaches

  1. Acting notes such as "the weight is wrong" become numbers: centre of mass over the feet, foot slide, hand reach, contact frames.
  2. Three bodies of different sizes doing the same scene expose problems one body hides.
  3. The checker built here is used by every later case that has a rig.

How it differs. The Physical audited one body. The crash lab measures how bodies meet each other and the room.

First sheet and last sheet

Where the stage started and where it finished.

Crash test 0, frame 30
Crash test 0, frame 30Oct 16 17:34
Test frames
Test framesOct 16 19:20

The sheets, step by step

Grouped by working session. Click any sheet to view it full size; use the arrow keys to move through them.

Step 1Crash test and Crash lab pageOct 16 17:34 · 10 sheets
Crash test 0, frame 30
Crash test 0, frame 30Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 0, frame 36
Crash test 0, frame 36Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 1, frame 20
Crash test 1, frame 20Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 1, frame 60
Crash test 1, frame 60Oct 16 17:34
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Crash test 1, frame 100
Crash test 1, frame 100Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 2, frame 90
Crash test 2, frame 90Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 3, frame 75
Crash test 3, frame 75Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 4, frame 40
Crash test 4, frame 40Oct 16 17:34
Crash test 5, frame 40
Crash test 5, frame 40Oct 16 17:34
Crash lab page, sheet
Crash lab page, sheetOct 16 17:34
Step 2Crash lab page and Crash testOct 16 18:39 · 5 sheets
Crash test 10, frame 40
Crash test 10, frame 40Oct 16 18:39
Crash test 99, frame 60
Crash test 99, frame 60Oct 16 18:39
Crash lab page, page
Crash lab page, pageOct 16 18:39
Crash lab page, desk
Crash lab page, deskOct 16 18:39
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Crash lab page, mob
Crash lab page, mobOct 16 18:39
Step 3CINEOSIS first look and Test framesOct 16 19:18–19:20 · 6 sheets
CINEOSIS first look
CINEOSIS first lookOct 16 19:18
CINEOSIS first look
CINEOSIS first lookOct 16 19:18
CINEOSIS first look
CINEOSIS first lookOct 16 19:19
CINEOSIS first look
CINEOSIS first lookOct 16 19:19
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CINEOSIS first look
CINEOSIS first lookOct 16 19:19
Test frames
Test framesOct 16 19:20

What came out of it

OpenInteractive runs in your browserDramaturgy Crash LabFilter 191 crash tests by instrument and play any of them FAM-03 19:21Crash Lab132 vignettes in a measured bay: letters opened, shoulders touched, doors pushed, stairs missed, and the 32 Acting Arena challenges, each scored for weight, feet, hands and contact.

Carried forward

The bay and its instruments become the stage for the 45 CINEOSIS signs.