Landmark Productions
by Louise O’Neill
adapted by Meadhbh McHugh & Annabelle Comyn
directed by Annabelle Comyn
VIDEO DESIGN
CINEMATOGRAPHY
VIDEO MAPPING
Asking For It
by Louise O’Neill
adapted by Meadhbh McHugh & Annabelle Comyn
directed by Annabelle Comyn
VIDEO DESIGN
CINEMATOGRAPHY
VIDEO MAPPING
Asking for It is a new stage adaption of Louise O’Neill’s devastating novel, which shines an unflinching light on the experience of a young woman whose life is changed forever by a horrific act of violence. Asking for It had its world premiere as part of Cork Midsummer Festival in June 2018 and went on to perform a sold-out, two-week run at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in November 2018.
Landmark website
★★★★★ striking production … excellent cast … staggering dance sequence – fizzing with performed sexual confidence and aggression … unsettling and alarming
The Irish Times
★★★★★ It’s hard to watch. It’s necessary to see … projection design by Jack Phelan consistently evoking timelessness and immediacy
The Reviews Hub
Video Design
My work on Asking For It:
- working closely with the director to develop themes and mood for video design
- develop, shoot, edit and post a number of live-action sequences
- develop techniques specially for the play to give a sense of volume / depth / density to the projections
- detailed video-mapping of the set to create the effect that the set was filled with video, rather than being projected onto it.
- plotting / sequencing & automation (projectors, queing) with QLab
Processes, tools, techniques:
- video shoot: Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera, SID stereo camera
- design: Procreate for sketching, Blender for 3D, After Effects and Fusion for post
- rendering: RenderStreet
Production Photos
photos by Ros Kavanagh
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The Process
A key part of the video design was the sense of a medium that changed from the pollen filled airiness of Summer, to denser, darker and more ominous volumes. I developed some techniques that involved projecting images onto CGI smoke and then reshooting this.
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Asking For It - volume test from Jack Phelan on Vimeo.
JACK PHELAN - VIDEO ARTIST, DESIGNER, DIRECTOR WICKLOW, IRELAND.