Narrative & Dynamic System_Day7

Who will win the presidency?

● What are the ethical implication of sharing election predictions?
Citizens can get the data and compare it, so that they can check if the result is same as the prediction or if it's really different, someone can guess the reason.

How polling works

● How necessary is polling to the election process? What function does it serve?
A poll can measure the preferences of an entire country by talking to as few as 800 people and the math works if those 800 people are selected through a truly random process. Because public polling is generally done for publicity, so pollsters are incentivized to do good work in order to get more media coverage.

Interactive performance styles

●  Choose a theme for a theater experience
Romantic Exam

●  Using that theme, create a rubric to randomize selection of Scene Type, Audience Dynamics, Relationship of system to audience, Outcomes.
Scene Type
Impro and Roleplay
Audience Dynamics
Competetive – two or more audience members work against each other to succeed
Relationship of system to audience
Games – with audience members using skill, with outcomes depending on their success or failure
Outcomes
Causative – driving the onstage action down a pre-set or improvised path

●  What is the resulting show? 

Romantic Exam (Awaken): Classroom setting, teacher moderating while students try to cheat on test or pass notes to each other. Throwing stuff to audience? Musical chairs aspect? Person with the romantic note has to read it in front of anyone

Old-Fashioned Elevator Hypnosis: Little Bottles of tonic, optical illusion of people standing behind table (can’t see legs). Old fashioned hypnosis technique. Why elevator? Tight space, calustrophobia, people trapped in elevator and freaking out. Use the keypad to punch in the right code to get to where youre going. You think you’re going to an interactive theater experience but the elevator is the experience. Use the buttons as a timer? Hypnosis is really just a way to get people to do things they wouldn’t normally do. Multiple elevators? For a collaborative competition?

Voices of Deceit (Blank): Spy game? Unreliable narrator. Voice is coming from somewhere, disembodied voice? Devil vs. Angel on your shoulder

Mixed Up Ballroom Cook: Cook-off? Two competing teams have to cook a meal WHILE ballroom dancing. Someone is holding the cutting board and someone is cutting. Waitress gustures like holding tray and balancing. Teams have competing goals?

The Parallels Between Designing Immersive Theatre and User Experience

● Using the concept generated above describe the following stages of the audience journey: Orientation, Crisis, Escalation,, Discovery and Change

- Orientation: High school, 10th grade, History, Mrs. C
Mrs. C hands back grades

Nerd - A
Teacher’s Pet - A
Jock - C
Class Clown - F
Teacher’s Pet has a crush on the Jock Asks if Jock needs helpTalks to the audience
- freeze framePSST - signal to audience that we are talking to them

- Crisis
Nerd receives
Doesn’t need it
Jock receives
He replies, “yes, what’s the answer to #3”
Class clown receives
He asks for answer #1 - #5


- Escalation:
Love bonds are formed


- Discovery
The audience determines who actually ends up together


- Change

Crisis: Exam begins
Teachers pet passes the answer to whoever

The actors have to react within the new setting