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
Tue, 8 June 2004, 12:49 pmBut what about the surgeon on call?
Do they have less right to spend their hard-earned dollar in your theatre watching your production than the rest of the population, given that there are so relatively few of them for so much need?
Warmly,
Jason
Do they have less right to spend their hard-earned dollar in your theatre watching your production than the rest of the population, given that there are so relatively few of them for so much need?
Warmly,
Jason
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