Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
Sat, 5 June 2004, 03:24 amBrenthoven11 posts in thread
Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
Sat, 5 June 2004, 03:24 amA quick thought to SM's and the like.
Before the show, you might have a recording like:
"Good evening Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to tonights performance of *insert play title/insult to audience here*. Please turn off all mobile phone and equipment as they interrupt our technical equipment."
Or something like that. What annoys me more is after this has been said, a good 20 minutes into the first act, someone's phone goes off.
Instead of throwing boiling apple juice at them...I suggest a method of subconscious phsycology.
During the message, which is pre-recorded (usually), you purposefully insert the sound of a mobile messing with sound equipment. Eg. the sound your radio makes before your phoneis about ring.
"ditdaditdaditdaditdaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Don't make anything of the noise in the recording. Just screw with the audiences minds. It's more fun.
(a quick thought: even with "no flash photography", you could get the actors to come out with high-beam strobes and blind the audience. Hey. It gets the message across.)
This has been a random thought brought to you by the letter B.
Before the show, you might have a recording like:
"Good evening Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to tonights performance of *insert play title/insult to audience here*. Please turn off all mobile phone and equipment as they interrupt our technical equipment."
Or something like that. What annoys me more is after this has been said, a good 20 minutes into the first act, someone's phone goes off.
Instead of throwing boiling apple juice at them...I suggest a method of subconscious phsycology.
During the message, which is pre-recorded (usually), you purposefully insert the sound of a mobile messing with sound equipment. Eg. the sound your radio makes before your phoneis about ring.
"ditdaditdaditdaditdaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Don't make anything of the noise in the recording. Just screw with the audiences minds. It's more fun.
(a quick thought: even with "no flash photography", you could get the actors to come out with high-beam strobes and blind the audience. Hey. It gets the message across.)
This has been a random thought brought to you by the letter B.
Re: Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
Mon, 7 June 2004, 06:57 pmWalter Plinge
In our recent performance of the Gondoliers, we themed our house rules to the show. The thick Italian accent (live cast member backstage) came on and read the rules and announced the vairable performers (dual cast roles), the rules were followed by a very Mafia sounding threat that "Iffa you do notta follow these rules ... We know where you live!".
The hope was that it may make it a little more interesting / fun and get people to pay attention to the announcements, rather than being a boring old recording... Well I didn't hear any phones during the show although we did spot a video in the audience (they shouldda covered the big orange recording light on the front - very easy to see hen you look at a darkened seating bank).
Cheers
Lance
The hope was that it may make it a little more interesting / fun and get people to pay attention to the announcements, rather than being a boring old recording... Well I didn't hear any phones during the show although we did spot a video in the audience (they shouldda covered the big orange recording light on the front - very easy to see hen you look at a darkened seating bank).
Cheers
Lance
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