Silhouette Performance
Made by jjlennon, mdemko, Joyce Chen and Frank Liao
Made by jjlennon, mdemko, Joyce Chen and Frank Liao
Perform a sort of choose-your-own-adventure, shadow-puppet performance with people
Created: November 14th, 2016
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Perform a sort of choose-your-own-adventure, shadow-puppet performance with people
This was a really fun idea! The idea of choosing a story we are all familiar with, doing a shadow show, and incorporating meaningful choices all made a very fun presentation. If I had to offer any criticism, I'd say that the shadow play was overshadowed (I'm so sorry that pun was unavoidable) by the text, and I found myself giving the shadows very little attention. Perhaps making broader movements with the shadows or making sure that the more important shadow play happened when messenger was stationary could help that. Also, it felt like many of the choices had a correct answer, which makes the decisions less fun. Though overall this was a really solid project!
Our projects have similar ideas. I really like your incorporation of silhouettes that correspond to the proceeding of the conversation. Also, because you are typing out the conversation, it gives the audience a sense of inclusion and participation. These are something that our group could use to improve on our project. For your project, I guess something to think about is to give a more detailed introduction and more clarified instructions, as I was sometimes lost when watching the performance. Overall I really like your project!
I like the idea of integrating traditional shadow puppet show and media. In fact, our group initially had a similar idea but yours is more improved [lol]. It is definitely a great experience for the audience for they are not listeners but participators in the storyline they are quite familiar with. I think the size of participation pool is really limited since there are only five members. Other people may also want to be part of the interactive performance. But since it would be hard to make a decision if there are a lot of participators and the performance could be displayed multiple times, this is not a big deal. Great job!
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