Sketch One Reflections

Reflections on the Dancing Egg
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There were several postive aspects to our performance and also a few negatives:

Positives:
Scene setup
   - Andrea's costume, the lighting, and the aesthetics surrounding the egg all turned out very nicely.
   - We were aiming for a mysterious, earthy atmosphere and I feel like we acheived it.

Sound production
   - I feel like this was the best part of our production.
   - We created meaningful sounds that helped the audience understand what the egg was feeling even though it wasn't moving :(

Choreography
   - Andrea's dancing was very believable and it added to the performance quite a bit


Negatives
No motion :(
   - The egg's battery was high enough to run the Arduino board, but too low to actual move the motors..
(Lessons -- 1. Always check the battery and test the full range of operability before the performance
                   2. Make the battery easily replacable)

Lack of Responsiveness
   - Although Andrea did a good job of learning the system, the proximity detection method we implemented just wasn't fully robust.

Limited performance space
   - Andrea was limited to the view-area of the webcam we used, which turned out to be about an 8 ft square

All in all, I was proud of what we accomplished, but wished we would have been able to demonstrate our product flawlessly.

-Jonathan