Dakota, Nila, Ella, Emmaline, Anish, Ernest
- Idea 1: Animal
The Carnival of the Animals(Complete)
Suite by Camille Saint-Saëns
(Lion, Hens & Roosters, Wild asses, Tortues, Elephant, Kangourous, Aquarium, Characters with Long Ears, Cuckoo, Aviary, Pianists, Fossiles, The Swan, Final)
Animals are our best friends in life, and we can always see a variety of wild animals or domestic pets on campus. There are also various animal-based festivals in different cultures, such as the Lunar New Year, which has a different symbolic animal for each year. Imagine that we use abstract light art to portray the qualities of different animals and make their presence felt every moment. In this composer’s carnival of animals suite, we can feel very directly the sound qualities, the character and even the colors of the different animals. The musical abstraction of the different qualities of the different animals provides an excellent basis for our lighting compositions.
- Idea 2: Carnival (Buggy)
Spring Carnival is one of the oldest traditions on CMU’s campus, dating back over a hundred years. A core event every year during Carnival is the Buggy races, where teams of students (hailing from both Greek organizations and independent groups) build and race small tube-shaped vehicles that are propelled by human pushers and raced across a course that has both a downhill and an uphill portion (where the buggy is propelled by gravity on the downhill and is pushed by a relay-race of team members on the uphill). It would be interesting to represent Buggy by having colored lights representing different buggies – there could be three or four different “scenes” – the first one has two different colored “buggies” speeding up (start of the roll), then both buggies going at a moderately high speed (possibly one passing the other), then the “relay race” portion where there are different colored moving lights to represent the three pushers that each push one part of the hill. At the end, there could be a celebratory light show showing which buggy won (by having two different versions of the video with the buggy colors swapped, so it would be possible to randomly select which buggy “wins” when playing the video). Music could include some kind of tense/exciting/fast-paced racing music; Sound effects (although these might get annoying) could include a countdown, cheering sounds, and celebratory sounds at the end.
- Idea 3: Carnival (Booth)
Spring Carnival is one of the oldest traditions on CMU’s campus, dating back over a hundred years. Booth is one of the major attractions during Spring Carnival and serves as a spectacular showcase. Various student organizations, including Greek organizations and other organizations on campus have the opportunity to construct multi-story structures centered around a selected theme each year. These booths feature engaging games and intricate ornamentations. All organizations move onto Midway the Friday night before the Carnival weekend, and work continuously until the opening on Thursday afternoon. Students construct walls for the booth and decorate with paper mache ornaments. The final outcomes are truly remarkable and awe-inspiring. For animation, we could show how each piece of the booth is built then constructed after they’re brought onto Midway. One possible way of doing this could be by having a vertical line of lights at equal intervals, then having each of these lines be expanded into one solid block. Finally, a colorful burst of colors could be added to show the detailed ornamentations of the booth.