Our idea revolves around exploring the changing of the seasons with an emphasis on Spring and Summer. We open with the end of Winter by showing the bridge in white to represent snow, and having it slowly melt into spring. We then have bright Spring flowers popping up as the bloom and transition into a willow tree swaying in the wind. The Summer rain then comes in and transitions into a Summer storm with lightning but then gets washed away by an ocean wave. After the storm and the wave end, the sun comes out and moves in the sky and then we settle into lush green leaves swaying in the wind. Finally, the green leaves change into Autumn colors and fall to the ground and the seasons are complete.

Here is a link to the full video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewbbw33jZkqD7nuPPGsCo35D1xZ1lPO3/view?usp=sharing

Here is the link to our testing video. There are three main sections to the video: waves, lightning, and snow melting into spring. Our main goals were to see how the effects worked or didn’t work, and if the colors were matching our expectations.

Our theme revolves around the theme of seasons with main emphasis on Spring and Summer. We want to evoke feelings of joy and happiness from our audience and plan to achieve that through the vibrant colors of Spring/Summer.

Our key ideas:

• Flowers blooming —> lights turning on panel by panel
• Petals in the wind —> a pulse of color
• Willow tree moving in the wind
• Blooming energy into flowers
• Ocean waves moving

The general timeline of how the events will be placed:

1. Winter to Spring transition [Show start]
   1. Start with white winter
   2. Snow melting into Spring colors?
      1. Spots of white fade into greenish colors, the spots slowly grow large until all the white (snow) has disappeared
2. Spring
   1. Flowers blooming
      1. Lights turning on panel by panel
   2. Willow swaying in the wind
   3. Flower petals drifting in the wind in a similar way as the wave in summer
3. Spring to Summer transition
   1. A wave of water washing over the spring colors
      1. Can occur slowly or quickly
4. Summer
   1.  (need help)
   2. Summer rain?
5. Summer to Fall transition [Show end]
   1. Fall color “wave” of leaf progression from green → yellow → orange → brown 
   2. Then the brown leaves “fall” and the show ends

Some questions we still have regarding implementation are as follows:

• Are there any other thematic elements that would make our performance stronger?