An Homage to the Outcasts

Projection and Video Design for 45-minute musical showcase

Projection and Video Design for 45-minute musical showcase

Brief

A 45-minute live musical showcase needed projection content that could function as more than backdrop — visuals had to move in exact sync with a live performance, where timing wasn't approximate but cued moment-to-moment against lighting, sound, and performers on stage.

Concept

The show's central symbol is the London Underground — the one space that unites every Londoner regardless of sex, orientation, or background, even in a city pulling itself apart. I built the visual language around that idea: projection content that shifted between the intimacy of Skye Hughes' personal, closeted world and the cold, institutional imagery of a regime enforcing "perfect" conformity, using the Tube as a recurring visual thread stitching both realities together. Nothing in the projection design was static — every transition between Skye's internal world and the dystopia closing in around her had to be built as a live, precisely timed cue in QLab, so the shift in atmosphere landed in the same instant as the performers' own shift on stage.

Skillsets

After Effects

Premire Pro

Qlab

Photoshop

Illustrator

Projection

Mapping

Filming

Storytelling

Video Editing

Layout

Colour Grading

Role

Concept, Book, Lyrics: Chris Vasileiadi (they/she)

Music, Lyrics: Sevinc Beste Yildiz (she/her)

Producer: Fangyan Yao (she/her)

Director/Choreographer: Chris Vasileiadi (they/she)

Assistant Choreographer: Lizzie Parker (she/her)

Musical Director: Sevinc Beste Yildiz (she/her)

Assistant Musical Director: Duru Unlu (she/her)

Deputy Stage Manager: Noah Tidmarsh (he/him)

Stage Manager: Mae White (she/they)

Costume Designer: Maya Andrews (she/her)

Set Designer: Antonio Saucedo (he/him)

Lighting Designer: Jasmine Lam (she/her)

Sound Designer: Alex Adshead (she/they)

Projection / Video Designer: Rachel Leung (she/her)

How do we use projection to build a world an audience believes in, in real time?

How can we stand out from the sea of over 3,800 shows

in Edinburgh Fringe?

Homage to the Outcasts is a dystopian musical set in a near-future London where progress reverses into a new wave of conversion therapy targeting queer residents — and the projection design had to carry as much narrative weight as the performers themselves, constructing a world audiences could believe in within 45 minutes, cue by cue.