Okay…so I need a little inspiration.
Following my idea of having half the audience with headphones and half the audience with eye masks I set out to find some videos I could use where the sound did not match the action in the video. This turned out to be much more difficult then what I thought.
Here are a few I found:
Video 1: True resistant test by Olympic athletes, Trojan condom manufactures
I thought this video was a good example of something you would not be able to guess the full content of unless you could see AND hear it, which no audience member would be able to. Even if just watching the video without being able to hear it you would not be able to guess what is going on. To test this I tried it out on my housemates, one could jut see the video and one could just hear, neither of them were able to guess correctly what was being advertised.
Video 2: CadburyUK Crispello advert (2013)
When trying out this video with my housemate the one with just sight thought that the advert was about a brother and sister which is very very far from the truth! The person wearing headphones had absolutely no idea.
I have tried to research into performances which were similar to mine, the results were somewhat minimal. Amy Taubin’s Double Occupancy (1976) interested me, she gave her audience the option to stay and watch her or to got o the adjacent room to listen to her. Those who chose to watch her only saw her whispering into a microphone so quietly that they could not hear her. This idea is similar to mine in that the audience can only see or hear the performance and not both.
I will continue further research into videos that I can use for my performance.
Works cited:
Video 2:
CadburyUK, (2013) Cadbury Crispello – A Lovely Little Naughtiness, England
Accessed online March 2013 at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf_aOlhjSJw
Taubin, Amy (1976) Double Occupancy found in:
Carroll, Noel (1979) Amy Taubin: The Solo Self, The Drama Review: TDR Vol.23 No.1 Autoperformance Issue pp.51-58, USA: MIT Press
Video 1:
Trojan condom manufactures (2012) True resistant test by Olympic athletes, AKA: For sport lovers / Don’t try this at home, Published by Trojan condom manufactures, London, England.
Accessed online March 2013 at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oedba4wqlcs