Curious about what this whole thing might look like?
Well here’s a quick fly-through created by Chris Chalmers at www.green-ideas.com
It’s fun to watch, but even more fun to drag the cursor along at your own pace. At least I think so. I like to be able to linger over the lobby and hallway and such.

As well, it’s more fun to watch BIG. So here’s a link to the mpg which you can download.

http://www.vime.org/fringe_fly_through.html

A walk-through the fly-through:

0:00-0:04
First we’re putting two walls up, floor to ceiling, to divide the gallery into a lobby, a theater and a hallway between them. The walls have a pair of doors in them which allow wheelchairs access to the theater, and an easy exit for crowds at film’s end.
A stage is built in the theater, as are bleachers.

0:05-0:14
In the hallway between the theater and lobby a flight of stairs will be built. (The purple you see at that point is the concession stands going in, as well). The walls will be skinned with drywall. The lobby entrance will have a curtain over it. The theater door will be an actual door, locked from the outside so that people can only access the theater from the hall stairs, emerging out onto the stage, unless accompanied by an usher.
Stairs will lead off the stage.
The bleachers are skinned with a foam and cloth seat and a mirrored riser element to reflect the film at guests as they emerge onto the stage.

0:15
In this view you can clearly see the full space subdivided into its three elements: lobby, transitional hallway, theater.

0:16-0:21
At this point we switch to an exterior view from the front of the gallery, as if we are guests entering. We pass through the doors of Fringe into the lobby. Then we move past the concession stand, through the curtain into the hallway.

0:22-0:40
Once in the hallway, most guests will go up a flight of stairs, and then emerge through the film screen - walking out of the film, as it were - onto the stage. They will then go down a flight of stairs to the side of the stage. They will cross the theater floor and go up into the bleachers to watch the film.

I received this from Chris a couple weeks ago. Sorry I was so remiss in putting it up.

http://www.green-ideas.com/viralmem/flash/viralmovieFinalSmall.html

It’s the fly-through of the space, as we envision it. It’s missing the design elements being developed by C & K, but it has all of the build elements. It provides a very nice vision of what we will build between July 12-19.

I’m waiting patiently for the drawings and animation from Chris. One thing you can always be sure of in life is that schedules will be disrupted. Nothing goes as planned. Thank Heavens that is what this project is about. Well, one of the many things it is about for me.

Otherwise all is well.

That’s Hollywood’s mantra, and so it is ours!

Well, maybe not entirely.

But I just met with Chris (at Quetzal in Polk Gulch) and his designs are developing beautifully. The sketch-up animation is looking great, you can really get a sense of the gallery, and as the theater is built up in stages you can actually feel the piece coming together. It’s fabulous. The studs go up one at a time and then the skin and the other elements, ending with a number of polygonal bodies filling the space.

The fly-through animation is even better. All the same elements, the studs going up one by one, the skin going on, the curtain falling into place, the wheelchair door/emergency exit…

Oh yeah, you read right, we added an emergency exit to the side of the screen. And it doubles as a wheelchair entrance. 23E Studios does not mess around when we build a theater.

So, I’m very excited about this. Saturday I should have a rough to post here. And then a finished sketch-up and a final fly-through.
OMFG, this project is going to sooo bring in the box office. We are going to totally win the weekend we open! At least for Chung King Road.