Multimedia Monday 16th March

Multimedia theatre production

During this lesson we done our usual physical warm up and got into pairs to analyse and talk about our new assignment so that we could understand what our objectives were for the term. We then went through the assignment as a whole with the class and highlighted or took pictures of sections we personally thought were important to remember throughout the term.

 

We then made a list of how we could use multimedia in theatre performances. These included...

·         Phones

·         Social media

·         Projectors

·         Music

·         Tv

·         Digital artwork

·         Video games

·         Play animation

·         Radio

·         Lights

·         Film

·         Photography

We then got into groups of 4 or 5 and went around the school building thinking and taking pictures of areas we could use for multimedia



we could put speakers into the lockers to create the atmosphere without being able to see the speakers

we could use the tv to show certain part of the performance on the screen to the audience

we could use the small room to project animated art work on the ceiling while performers act out scenes such as monologues with not a lot of space needed in the room

Multimedia Theatre Production

 

Multimedia helps in its communication to an audience because it enables theatre to be performed to audience not necessarily always having to use direct language. By this I mean that the technology in multimedia such as the creation of image on screens and sounds mean that a wider audience can understand the piece while not having to always necessarily understand a specific language. Through image and sound it creates a universal language that everyone is able to comprehend.
It terms of what multimedia adds to the piece is that it makes theatre more engaging for everyone. As humans we all have a different way of understanding certain situations for example, some people learn better by listening to people speaking while others learn better by physically seeing things in motion. What multimedia does is emerge all these different ways together so that everyone is able to fully engage in the piece of theatre.

Review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Multimedia Production)

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10958547/The-Curious-Incident-of-the-Dog-in-the-Night-Time-Gielgud-Theatre-review-muted.html

"Bunny Christie’s brilliant design - a monochrome mathematical grid onto which are projected diagrams, rail tracks, emoticons and cascades of numbers - is an inspired representation of Christopher’s interior world.
But the set seems the most powerful presence on the stage."