Today we had our group critique. It was really useful to talk about our piece in front of the group with both tutors as we wanted as much input as possible. We started off by talking about the script and the narrative. It was stated by Liam as being a bit like a soap opera and we justified the need for the narrative to unfold in someway to keep the audience engaged, without this the lack of visuals would become more apparent. The lack of visuals was another main concern from the group, Elliott talked about experimenting with the hospital bed projection just so if we think the piece needs it we have something we can use. The tag-line brought up for this piece was “Radio Theatre” and i think we need to keep that in mind.
Sound is massive issue as most people didn’t get the fact that the dialogue and ambient sound for the room is going to be placed around the room with surround sound and the internal thoughts will be played through directional speakers built into the seats. this will give each audience member to get a different take on the emotions being brought up by the loss of someone that each character loved in someway or another.
I feel that everything we have achieved so far will not only get the audience to feel empathy but without visuals get them to transfer it to a personal interpretation.
