How Multimedia Was Used To Enhcance Our Preformance

 Multimedia enhanced our performance enormously. This photo on the right -> demonstrates how effective it was. This piece of footage was projected onto the whole wall and not just a small scene in the middle as others were. From seeing this footage live, I know how taken aback you can feel after walking into the room to see a video that's so bold and commanding of the space. For me it drew me and caught my attention immediately as your looking at something that really is pushing the boundaries of what people consider to be 'normal theatre'. Combined with a play that has a reputation for being 'traditional' and is associated with that 'standered way of preforming', this piece of multimedia proved to be extremely effective.

Here we used a stereo to play a pre-recorded tape of us speaking the chorus, while we acted out our choreographed movements down on the courtyard. This enhanced this moment of chorus a lot as it meant the audience could view a chorus from a whole new angle and perspective. Choruses can sometimes be something that everyone just zones out of as they can be considered boring or not very modern and are sometimes quiet hard to understand. However, presenting it in this way takes out that boring aspect and the use of multimedia (sound) gives it a contemporary feel. The physical and aspect and sound combined also means you don't have to fully understand it, you can  just let the sound flow around you as you watch and interprete the movement.

The scene on the right used music to enhance their piece. The music created a lot of suspense and conveyed the emotions of the scene really well. It was played at a moment where there were tow characters on stage that resembled some kind of creature that wasn't quiet human, it was very abstract and sinister. The music enhanced the threatening feel of the piece and I felt it would have enabled th audience to conect and get lost in this scene a lot more. This scene was also towards the end, therefore the music worked perfectly to start to buil up the idea of the final of the play, the part where all the destruction and pain really is visable.

<- This was the scene that followed directly after the one above this text. The multimedia used here was a video showing Antigone and Heamon commiting suicide. I felt, as this was my scene, that this had a really hard hitting and emotional effect on the audience, therefore enhancing the piece. To show the act of commiting suicide so clearly and bluntly in a video must have been quiet shocking for the audience, nevertheless there was no better way to convay the situation. Suicide is often something that isn't quiet dealt with in such a direct way, yet this video showed it as it truley is. Some of the audience member may have had experience with suicide, who knows, but this video certianly would have hit some very deep emotions with the  audience. These emotions potentionally allow audience member to unlock those deep and questioning thoughts that can be avoided so easily, therefore making a huge connection with this scene and the issues raised within it.