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.
BrenthovenSat, 5 June 2004, 03:24 am
A 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.
Walter PlingeMon, 7 June 2004, 06:57 pm
Re: Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
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
Walter PlingeTue, 8 June 2004, 10:53 am
Re: Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
Really the answer is simple!
why don' t we just encourage other audience members to feel free to beat the living crap out of the person whose phone rings and then shove it up their arse. People would learn quick!
Or for a gentler approach , like the sydney opera house, have a blocker to mobile phone coverage so calls cannot be made or recieved while in the building.
why don' t we just encourage other audience members to feel free to beat the living crap out of the person whose phone rings and then shove it up their arse. People would learn quick!
Or for a gentler approach , like the sydney opera house, have a blocker to mobile phone coverage so calls cannot be made or recieved while in the building.
jassepTue, 8 June 2004, 12:49 pm
Re: Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
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?
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
gregTue, 8 June 2004, 06:04 pm
Re: Mobile Phone: The Annoyment Chronicles
There is always the mobile phone jamming system employed in some theatres.
"This theatre employs a mobile phone jamming system. Should your phone ring throughout the show, a cast member will jam it up your arse"
"This theatre employs a mobile phone jamming system. Should your phone ring throughout the show, a cast member will jam it up your arse"
Walter PlingeWed, 9 June 2004, 11:37 am
Mobile Phone Jammer -- a No! No!
Using mobile phone jammers is not a good idea. In a Madia release issued by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) in July 2003, there is the stern warning: "Under the Radiocommunications Act, the ACA can prosecute any person operating, supplying, or possessing a jammer with penalties of up to two yearsÂ’ imprisonment or a fine of up to $165,000."
The release can be read at: http://www.aca.gov.au/aca_home/media_releases/media_enquiries/2003/03-21.htm
Russell
The release can be read at: http://www.aca.gov.au/aca_home/media_releases/media_enquiries/2003/03-21.htm
Russell
Walter PlingeWed, 9 June 2004, 12:52 pm
Re: Mobile Phone Jammer -- a go go
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.
crgwllmsWed, 9 June 2004, 06:51 pm
Re: The Call of the Theatre...
Jason 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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Walter PlingeFri, 11 June 2004, 10:16 pm
Re: The Call of the Theatre...
On the upside if an on-call doctor takes a call mid-way through a show they may very well pay to see the show agian to catch the end, twice the dosh :-)
Walter PlingeThu, 15 July 2004, 05:56 pm
Re: Mobile Phone Jammer -- a No! No!
Can anyone pls advice the mobile jammer is legal or illegal in India .
regards
vijay
Walter PlingeTue, 26 Oct 2004, 06:13 pm
Re: Mobile Phone Jammer -- a No! No!
Just because they say there is a huge fine, doesn't mean it's not a good idea.
We are the consumers, and we have a right to indulge in what we pay for.
A media release also from the ACA goes on to say that Mobile phone Jammers work up to 4,000 Metres. Yes... They can. With a huge power bill. Personal Jammers can work -- at best from 50- Possibly 100 Metres.
Quite perfect for the grounds of a Theatre.
Against the law or not, Jammers are, and always will be a great idea.
We are the consumers, and we have a right to indulge in what we pay for.
A media release also from the ACA goes on to say that Mobile phone Jammers work up to 4,000 Metres. Yes... They can. With a huge power bill. Personal Jammers can work -- at best from 50- Possibly 100 Metres.
Quite perfect for the grounds of a Theatre.
Against the law or not, Jammers are, and always will be a great idea.