Thursday16th March 2015

Monday 16^th March 2015

QUESTION:  “Within a Theatre production, how does the use of multimedia help in its communication to an audience? What does it add to the piece?"

Multimedia helps to communicate better with the audience in the theatre because it can show them what happens outside of the stage which would be effective and it involves the audience in the piece. Multimedia is used to make theatre more interesting and exciting to watch. If there was for example a voice over to portray someone’s thoughts, it would look great because the person on stage isn’t actually speaking and this will excite the audience. Multimedia adds effect by using the media. It is a different way to approach acting.The National Theatre uses a lot of Multimedia in their performances. Here is a video I watched on projection in travelling light.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/video/video-projection-in-travelling-light

Additional work:

Find a review of a multimedia theatre production and see what Theatre critics have to say.  

I saw on a website (shown below) some views on multimedia used in theatre. I read that some people believe multimedia is a way of being lazy- for example when the actors were changing scenes a black-and-white clip would be shown to cover it up. Also it said “Film footage offered a cheap way of getting crowds on stage”. This shows us that not everybody like theatre that includes multimedia. http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2008/dec/15/theatre-multimedia-rupertgoold-katiemitchell

How we will perform our show:
We were told that we are going to perform our play as a Promenade piece, which means that the performance won't be located in one theatre. Instead, we will perform different scenes around the school.