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 Jammer -- a go go
Wed, 9 June 2004, 12:52 pmWalter Plinge
The opera house must be a black spot for coverage then.
Jason doctors and like can take their phone as long as it is silent and they leave the auditorium to take the call. Not stand at the side and have your conversation as I witnessed once during an opera.
I like greg's suggestion. People would certainly get the message.
Far to many punters think that going to the theatre is like going cinema and they can chat, eat, answer their phone, put their feet on the seats. Bring in alcohol and take away food. I think people really need to be taught theatre ettique as it is become something from a by gone era.
Jason doctors and like can take their phone as long as it is silent and they leave the auditorium to take the call. Not stand at the side and have your conversation as I witnessed once during an opera.
I like greg's suggestion. People would certainly get the message.
Far to many punters think that going to the theatre is like going cinema and they can chat, eat, answer their phone, put their feet on the seats. Bring in alcohol and take away food. I think people really need to be taught theatre ettique as it is become something from a by gone era.
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