An Introduction to Holograms and Pepper’s Ghost for Set and Lighting Designers
Are you curious about how to stage a hologram or the “Pepper’s ghost” effect? In this workshop we’ll look at the differences between actual holograms and Pepper’s ghost, learn how to create a miniature scaled “hologram” to incorporate into design presentations or set maquettes, and go through some of the choices that lighting and set designers can make to stage this effect successfully for productions in various types of performance venues, as well as applications outside of theatre.
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Renate PohlRenate Pohl is a Set, Lighting, Projection and Costume Designer based in Corner Brook, Newfoundland where she is a Resident Designer, Associate Professor and current Chair of the Theatre Program at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus. Some of the theatre companies in Newfoundland she has worked with include Persistence Theatre Company, Double Sure, RCA, Arts and Culture Centres, She Said Yes!, NAX, White Rooster, C2C, Artistic Fraud, Opera on the Avalon, and Theatre Newfoundland Labrador. Outside of Newfoundland, some of her credits include work with Eastern Front Theatre in Nova Scotia; Mixed Company and Nightswimming in Toronto; Old Earth Productions and Free Will Players in Edmonton; and Union Theatre, Greenwich Theatre, Bush Theatre, New Ambassadors Theatre, Arcola Theatre, and Heart and Soul in London, UK. Renate’s work also includes research in applied creativity for STEM education and the space industry including the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.
