Getting Started Guide - updated
| Posted December 02, 2011 by Päivi Salmi 0 Thumb-ups |
Getting Started - some tips
Here some tips for you who want to put your personal stamp on a full scale opera.
In Opera by You community we are creating a live opera in online community. The Opera is called Free Will and it’s original synopsis is written by Italian Graziano Gallo. This libretto was chosen from about a hundred suggestions by the Opera By You community and a group of operatives.
The opera itself will be seen at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in summer 2012.
You don’t have to be the next Mozart to participate. Every single idea, opinion, question, phrase, thumb up and tune is appreciated.
Join us, make an effort, win a trip to Savonlinna Opera Festival. Everyone taking part in creating Opera By You has a chance to win a trip to Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland. Been there? If yes, you know why this is the best prize ever. And if not, then hey, don’t miss it! Great opera, scenic Lakeland Saimaa and a medieval castle as a stage, beautiful Finnish summer nature, cup of coffee at the Savonlinna market square.
Here’s tips on how to contribute. It’s easy. Drop a word or two if you like, or really dig into it and give it your heart’s worth.
In creating an opera there are basically four phases. In brackets the timelines and deadlines:
1) the plot = synopsis (by June 2011) - find attached the latest version with Acts and Scenes.
2) the detailed script = libretto (by May 2011) - find the latest version attached.
3) the composition = music (by December 2011)
4) the visualization = guidelines mainly for stage sets, lightning and wardrobe. (Stage sets by May 2011, lightning and wardrobe by December 2011).
At the moment we have already finalized the script and stage sets design. But we have still lot to do with composing, stage direction and marketing planning.
THE SCRIPT
Find here the final script
http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/8931
THE MUSIC - COMPOSING
Here you can find the latest tasks in composing.
Scene 6, first part
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2324
Mozarts aria
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2368
If you have any questions about the composing, just contact Markus Fagerudd, our composing operative who is guiding the community in composing tasks. Here shortly how composing is happening here: according to a task you may compose an entity, or those part of the task you find most interesting. The main thing is that you compose the way you feel it should be. You may also send in sketches of music, everything is valuable.
We are composing a pianoscore for the moment. This means vocalparts+piano. Please use a notation software you prefer. You can send in files with the free download program Musescore. You can also send in Sibelius and Finale files. Files from other notation software should be sent in as pdf + mp3.
Markus, our composing operative will gather and put together the material that you all contribute with. Then we can together still improve it according to the ideas and comments you share us all.
THE VISUAL SET UP - VISUALIZING
The community has finalized the following:
Find the final stage sets here
http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/9457
Find the final costumes here
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2381
In visual desig there will soon come some new tasks. Stay tuned!
THE SLOGAN, VISUAL IMAGE AND MARKETING of FREE WILL
Find the detailed task here
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2375
We are looking forward to hearing your ideas!And if you have any questions, feel free to contact myself or the other operatives of this project, Iida Hämeen-Anttila (writing), Markus Fagerudd (composing), Samuli Laine (visual designer), Jere Erkkilä (stage director), Juki Pohjolainen (head of production) and Essi Palo (head of wardrobe).
As the production leader of Opera By You I’m also more than happy to help.
Päivi Salmi
paivi.salmi@operafestival.fi
Free Will marketing materials planning
| Posted November 13, 2011 by Päivi Salmi 0 Thumb-ups |
Hi all Opera by You members!
We will soon open set of tasks for you in order to start planning marketing around our magnificent opera Free Will. That includes target group setting, messages and marketing means and materials brainstorming.
Stay tuned for further messaging!
Best, Päivi
Music of Free Will - scenes 1-4
| Posted October 09, 2011 by Päivi Salmi 0 Thumb-ups |
Hi composers and other Opera by You community members,
In here http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/9273 you can find now ready 4 scenes of Free Will in notes. We will add later pianoscore file. Enjoy :)
Remember that we have still theree big scenes to work on. Find here links to the now open composing tasks. We are now in scene 5, which can be cvomposed in two parts.
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2204
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2284
Ask Markus if some burning questions emerges regarding composing.
Best, Päivi
About the virtual choir
| Posted May 24, 2011 by Päivi Salmi 1 Thumb-up |
Hi everybody!
Antti Wiio presented the idea of a virtual choir. I find this most interesting, and should be very happy if we could start a conversation about the issue. It seems that in the beginning of our opera there would be a very natural spot to do a thing like this, what do you think? If we could gather opinions and start a task for composing in the near future, then we might have a chance to get this done within our timetable. Everybody, share your thoughts about this. This opera is the perfect venue for such a thing as a virtual choir.
Find here an example
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong.html
Best wishes from
Markus
Comments
Sorry to have come so late to this project. Only just now catching up on the previous posts. This is absolutely amazing. I agree 100% that we could have a 'virtual choir' piece at the beginning and end of the Opera. We can write a 2-3 minute piece, a small poem about Free Will and the fact that it is precisely BECAUSE we have Free Will that our lives are NOT pre-ordained and we CAN change things. I do so hope that we can do this!!
Thank you so much for posting the TED talk and the Whitacre piece. I had no idea about this. Amazing. We CAN do it!! Let's DO IT!!!
I don't think it matters much where the virtual choir is placed in the score, as long as the piece is suitable for the purpose.
Some notes about technical aspects. Making a **real time** virtual choir would only be possible locally within the local teleoperator's network. Internet's current structure is very prone to creating bottlenecks in the network nodes which connect different teleoperators to each other. I also suspect that there isn't the technology to do the mixing of vast number of voices in real time. But I'm not an expert on audio production technology, so I may be wrong.
So, we would have to do this in the same way Whitacre did it: mixing the performance from recordings that each singer does in his/hers own time.
We would need an audio/video production expert to do the mixing and cutting. It shouldn't be too difficult to find one, if he/she gets his name in the credits in a resulting YouTube video. I thing many AV production firms could be intrested in the publicity.
We would also need some heavy duty HiFi equipment and also video projector(s) for playing the piece. It shouldn't be very hard to get some local firm to sponsor this event with suitable equipment.
Would the opening scene with Gabriel 'channeling' God's mood and the 'distress' chorus possibly be a good place to integrate a virtual choir? I think Enrico's comment about placing the virtual choir performance at the beginning or at the end is valid, and just in terms of coordination it might be easier to put it at the beginning. Or, assuming we will have an overture, could the virtual choir accompany the overture?
I love this idea. It was successfully done at Tampere Hall in Finland in a play. Internet, virtual connections nowadays really work.
In this the play an actor in another counry gave a flower to the actor who was at Tampere Hall. It looked amazing, when the same flower on the video screen suddenly reached the hand of the actor on the stage at Tampere Hall.
I would like to see this virtual choir tried , it is a wonderful idea.
I just love the idea. About ten years ago I had a vision of people singing together on different parts of the Earth and internet could make that a choir, combining their voices. Idea was disturbed only by the fact that I knew there were lagging information connections, sometimes the lag could be some 20 seconds. It was nice to see that idea ofchoir work well in Päivi's link, how it could be done! Awesome!
The idea of the virtual choir could actually a perfect coronation to this project, and also the ultimate kick to promote it by involving as many people as possible. In order not to make it draw the attention from the rest of the Opera, though, I also think it would suit best to just have a virtual choir performance in the beginning/end.
PS: the video was quite moving, I have to say.
Some interesting stuff You have created
| Posted May 10, 2011 by Päivi Salmi 1 Thumb-up |
Some interesting stuff You have created
Hi all Opera by You members!
Now I have some very interesting stuff for you to listen watch and comment. Markus, our composing operative has now finalized Joan's Aria in scene III. Go, listen and give it a comment, http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/8656
Our new operative, Essi, who is guiding you in the costume design, has received many excellent proposals for Lucifers costumes. Go and give comment, thumb up your favourite, http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2091
In set designing, check the latest tasks here,
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2054
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2097
http://www.wreckamovie.com/tasks/show/2100
Remember also that you still have a chance to participate to our ongoing competition and win an experience trip to Savonlinna Opera Festival. Your comments can bring you a prize!
Have a nice week :)
Best, Päivi
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