If anyone had told me that I would be reading the entire back of a cereal box for my last ever performance of my degree I probably would have told them they were crazy. However that said, this is what I have decided to do, whilst the video is playing behind me. This idea came to me when I was eating breakfast this morning and it just so happened to take me 8 minutes, after I had finished I went to look at what went into the cereal, and then suddenly and for no reason what so ever decided that this would be what action I do for eight minutes whilst the video I had made was playing behind me. It captures the act of the passing of time and how we are very out of tune of what happens around us in the world minute by minute. To me I was shocked to find out what had happened worldwide just whilst I ate my breakfast and it was an eye opener. One thing I wanted to avoid in this performance was making it seem like a ‘charity advert’ so as you can see in the video I made and posted on the last post I added in random facts such as how many iPhones were sold in a minute nad how much Oprah Winfrey made. I decided on the music that was added to the video as I thought it was a nice contrast to what I was saying, whilst I was eating breakfast on stage (which is quite calm) the fast forwarded video playing behind and the music was somewhat frantic, until the end where the music and video changed which changed the tone of the video. After searching through my cupboards I found a cereal that would take me a while to read; All Bran Chocolate Crunch.

I thought I may as well go for it and read every single word on the box and not just the contents of the cereal. Closer to the day of the performance I decided that I was going to sit round a table for the performance for a more intimate feeling because I wanted to attention on the video and not myself. The lighting I wanted to keep very minimal as I didn’t feel the piece needed a wild light design. I just wanted a dim general wash of the stage.

Posted on – May 9th 2013