Isadora

For this session on Isadora i knew i would not be able to attend due to being at my best friends wedding.  I decided to research what it is so i could catch up in my next session. i found that Isadora was initially created to realize the performances of Troika Ranch, a media intensive dance company co-directed by Isadora's creator, composer and media-artist Mark Coniglio. Isadora allows userts to manipulate images in different ways to create 'Media Intensive Theoretical experiences' often in synchronisation to music shown in concerts and night clubs.

Filmmakers are also coming to embrace the narrative possibilities of Isadora. Francis Ford Coppola used the software for his film project, TWIXT

"Because cinema is now electronic and digital, it is no longer a long strip of celluloid that has to go the way it was determined... Because a film is made up of digital files it means the director, if he   were there and wanted to take the time to go to each show, he could essentially change the experience to suit the audience."

When i returned to uni the following week i shadowed a group while they carried on with their isodora project. i was told that we were given the theme of halloween so they were basing they project on the film Psycho. At first i didn't quite understand how the concept of Isadora worked but as the group did more i did get the hang of how to do somethings and realised it was about interacting with it.