Week 10

Week 10.-
This week, the blurb on the fighter cockpit, drew my attention to video games being seen as a form of entertainment.

Video games transport us into a different world, a work of virtuality which we control, we become that character and that character becomes us. The game is out stage and the story the script.

Like theatre, video games have expanded and developed. We no longer have to put up with 2D images and single camera angles, with such inventions as the Playstaion 3, and Nintendo Wii. Performance can be created. The Nintendo Wii. Allows us to create our own characters called ‘Miis’. We can make them look like us and even give them characteristics of ourselves.

Computer games and consoles have become fully engaged in the multimedia virtual age, and have re mediated themselves too, we can still play, Classic sonic the Hedgehog and Mario, but on a higher level, we become that character and play out a performance but to a larger degree.

‘The fighter cockpit exemplifies the theatrical space of the digital world, and if the critics have not seen this, the video game designers certainly have.’
I think that although theatre has reinvented itself it need to a larger degree, the audience craves more and so more should be given to them.

This source of research, I also felt was applicable for my project, as the topic was that of violence, I felt it important to show how violent video games are seen as entertainment and weather this too was a contributing factor. Kim and I, designed a group on facebook raising these issues, as we were all on facebook, we thought this was the best platform, added to this; we could invite other, outside our class to comment on the issues, making our research more in depth. We felt it was important to see other views on such an important subject.

This week, I also watched Complex, which was the performance mentioned earlier put on by the Graduating Performing Arts Students.

Electra was very interesting. The set consisted of about 5 television screens, and one large projection screen. The five screens allowed the audience to see the action from Nemours angles, whilst the projection screen provided us with action linking to that what was happening on stage, I felt this performance encompassed a lot of multimedia work, and was extremely effective. The Multimedia added to the performance and created a different platform of theatre. This piece juxtaposed with the following story, that of Oedipus. as this one had no multimedia effects, instead relied on action alone. This piece was extremely physical. It was different but at the same time very effective, it proved that theatre does not have to have images of virtuality in order for it to be effective, and that like Chris said; theatre can indeed compete with other forms of media.