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: The Call of the Theatre...
Wed, 9 June 2004, 06:51 pmJason Seperic wrote:
>
> But 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?
There's a flaw in this argument....if they're using their mobile phone, they're NOT watching my production.
When I've been on call (for a film shoot, where they were keeping some of the cast waiting until they'd finished the previous location shoot), I was allowed to stay at home, watch TV, read, etc...but I couldn't spend hours on the phone and nor could I go to the theatre or a movie...I was ON CALL.
That was the whole reason I was earning my hard-earned dollars...I was being paid to be immediately available.
If you're a surgeon on call, I'd expect you to be as diligent and not go traipsing off to the (acting) theatre when you may need to be immediately available...that's one of the reasons you're being paid what you are.
I'm pretty sure THEY don't like it when mobile phones go off during open-heart surgery..?
Cheers,
Craig
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> But what about the
> 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?
There's a flaw in this argument....if they're using their mobile phone, they're NOT watching my production.
When I've been on call (for a film shoot, where they were keeping some of the cast waiting until they'd finished the previous location shoot), I was allowed to stay at home, watch TV, read, etc...but I couldn't spend hours on the phone and nor could I go to the theatre or a movie...I was ON CALL.
That was the whole reason I was earning my hard-earned dollars...I was being paid to be immediately available.
If you're a surgeon on call, I'd expect you to be as diligent and not go traipsing off to the (acting) theatre when you may need to be immediately available...that's one of the reasons you're being paid what you are.
I'm pretty sure THEY don't like it when mobile phones go off during open-heart surgery..?
Cheers,
Craig
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