As the marketing manager of JumpCut I have been researching into other theatre companies to get a feel for the market within the Arts industry. Throughout the devising process many performances and theatre companies have been influential.

I have listed below four performances that have especially influenced my creative input within the company:

 

• Action Hero ‘Slap Talk’ – Slap Talk uses cameras to zoom in on the performer’s faces whilst they are having a conversation. Action Hero’s piece communicates “to the audience via a live feed from a camera to a monitor.” (Action Hero, 2013) We are considering using hand held cameras to magnify sections of our faces and our expressions as we apply make-up.

  

• Louise Orwin ‘Pretty Ugly’ – Explores how online culture is influencing peoples body image and the perceptions of so called perfection. Orwin focuses on the online trend ‘Am I pretty or ugly?’ whereby young females post videos asking others to respond and tell them whether they think that they are pretty or ugly. “It is also about a recent worldwide trend of teenage girls posting videos on YouTube asking viewers to rate their looks.” (Louise Orwin, 2014)

  

• Wies Fest ‘A Whole Lot of Nothing’ – This piece focuses on presenting a bare face and revealing the visage of beauty. The performance synopsis explains that “a girl applies her make-up to look pretty, every day, and then she goes and tries to get as much attention as she can.” (Flare Festival, 2014) This piece influenced our performance style and we began to develop a section that incorporates an online tutorial that explains the benefits of cosmetics.

• Forced Entertainment ’12am: Awake & Looking Down’ – Forced Entertainment explore the creation of identity in alternative ways and how props can be incorporated into this sequence. Their company website summarises that “five silent performers endlessly reinvent their identities using stacks of cardboard signs with which they name themselves, and a store of jumble-sale clothing (coats, dresses, suits, anoraks, trousers, pyjamas) from which they dress and re-dress.” (Forced Entertainment, 2015) This piece helped to bring our ideas to life and highlighted the possibilities of using props rather than relying solely on multimedia.

 

Work Cited-

Action Hero, (2013), Action Hero- Live Art and Performance, Online: http://www.forcedentertainment.com/project/12am-awake-looking-down/ (accessed 5 May 2015).

Flare Festival, (2014), A Whole Lot of Nothing- Wies Fest, Online: http://www.flarefestival.com/project/a-whole-lot-of-nothing-wies-fest/ (accessed 10 May 2015).

Forced Entertainment, (2015), Forced Entertainment, Online: http://www.forcedentertainment.com/project/12am-awake-looking-down/ (accessed 5 May 2015).

Orwin, Louise, (2014), Louise Orwin Projects, Online: http://louiseorwin.com/site/project/id/15 (accessed 7 May 2015).