Tuesday 13h30 – Using Theatre

We were a little stuck with scripting what we’re calling the werkfilm – The piece of media that will be played as part of a presentation to a community that might build a tourist trail.  It’s going to happen a lot of times over the next few years, hundreds of these presentations and each one with this film in it.  The problem was that from the initial discussion last night it was clear that the film was being treated as an opportunity to pipe some information – a standardised representation of what the GIS ‘thing’ was. 

So we broke things open with some drama – getting people to be things,  a projector, a screen, a welcoming smile – and use that to explore the situation in which the werkfilm would be used.  The feedback was that it reduced tension, and from my perspective got people into a more creative mode.  There was a shift when people realised that a girl holding  a water bottle on her head could be a projector, that we could use an imaginary remote control to stop and start the speaker, and that Zsuzsa could be a GPS rather than fetch one.  Above all, it was fun and that made some space for the grind of a scripting workshop that followed.