2023年 10月 08日
Changes in gimmicks
At MIDORI's first screening in May 1992, jet fans were used to send confetti flying from the ceiling onto the audience seats.
At the screening of MIDORI at the Fantastic Film Festival in September 1992, jet fans were used to drop confetti onto the audience seats from the second floor.
The standard size (4:3) MIDORI was projected larger than a 70mm film screen.
In November 1992, one of the Midori staff members discovered that by pointing two jet fans in different directions, a vortex formed above the audience seats, causing confetti to fly like a real blizzard.
At MIDORI in 1994, CO2 was sprayed into the audience.
At MIDORI in 2000, slide images danced as they moved along the walls of the theater, some parts were converted into stereophonic sound, and the sound also rotated around the theater.
In 2004's ''Sea Trench Garden,'' three projectors mounted on turntables moved around the theater. Multiple tape recorders were placed under the audience seats, emitting low tones that sounded like an earthquake. Toilet paper was hung from the ceiling and swayed. Toilet paper was an effective method when preparation time or budget was short, and from this point on, it was widely used.
Sound and keyboard performances were synchronized in the venue to match the video. It was Shuji Terayama and J. A. Seazaer who invented the method of synchronizing live performances in this theater.
At the 2009 screening of ''Death Lullaby,'' a large cracker containing a small hydrogen cylinder was sprayed at the screen.
Large cracker used at this time: https://j-cracker.com/
Large cracker used at this time: https://j-cracker.com/
Photo credit：Ketsurikichinkai Eigasai
At the MIDORI screenings sponsored by the Kanazawa Film Festival, which have been held several times since 2012, dancing was added to the climax scene.
At MIDORI in Nagoya in 2020, multiple staff members threw confetti toward the audience.
by kiyubaru2020
| 2023-10-08 18:18
| 劇場思想 Theater thought
