Suitability of audience: I believe that our audience were far too young and in completely the wrong age range for our protest to have been as effective as it could have been. Although some of our targeted audience were very engaged and participated fully, I found that the majority of my audience Interactions were slightly uncontrolled, because of the audiences' ridiculously short attention spans.
I did however have a very long and in-depth conversation with a boy
called Dave whom had some very interesting views on euthanasia and medical care
in the UK. I found his opinion so different from my own and very complex and
this not only excited me, but also engaged me with our conversation. Although I
and Dave had to agree to disagree on our differing views on euthanasia I
believe that I really made a difference today by talking to him. Not only did I
really enjoy talking to him, and listening to his views, but what he had to say
was really interesting to me. I really do hope that I inspired him in some way
shape or form, and that he feels provoked by our protest to go and implement
social change himself and not be apathetic.
Overall I believe that if we protested with a different targeted
audience then our protest would have been much more effective, and would have
made a greater impact.
Preparation: I believe that my group’s preparation for the protest was sufficient however our preparation was unfortunately not in depth. We had many group discussions, both in person and via the internet, we rehearsed the theatrical element of our piece and we also brainstormed ideas for specifically evocative phrases that we could use on our picket signs. We also prepared the signs from scratch and laminated them, anticipating the bad weather. Overall I think that our preparation would have sufficed if at the last minute we had not decided upon changing the location of our protest. This definitely unnerved me, and I am sure it also bewildered some of the other members in my group, because our piece had a specific layout which was the stimuli for our choreographed movements during the protest. the only way I can possibly describe this is by portraying the mental image of an amazingly elaborate house of cards having had one of its integral foundation cards being removed swiftly from the lower labels. Without our original location, our piece literally fell apart. However I believe that if, as a group, we had put more effort into preparing for the protest and finalising each and every detail of the piece then the last minute location switch wouldn't have been such a significant game changer in our protest.
Refinements: Here is a list of the following things that could have improved our protest:
Preparation: I believe that my group’s preparation for the protest was sufficient however our preparation was unfortunately not in depth. We had many group discussions, both in person and via the internet, we rehearsed the theatrical element of our piece and we also brainstormed ideas for specifically evocative phrases that we could use on our picket signs. We also prepared the signs from scratch and laminated them, anticipating the bad weather. Overall I think that our preparation would have sufficed if at the last minute we had not decided upon changing the location of our protest. This definitely unnerved me, and I am sure it also bewildered some of the other members in my group, because our piece had a specific layout which was the stimuli for our choreographed movements during the protest. the only way I can possibly describe this is by portraying the mental image of an amazingly elaborate house of cards having had one of its integral foundation cards being removed swiftly from the lower labels. Without our original location, our piece literally fell apart. However I believe that if, as a group, we had put more effort into preparing for the protest and finalising each and every detail of the piece then the last minute location switch wouldn't have been such a significant game changer in our protest.
Refinements: Here is a list of the following things that could have improved our protest:
- · Whether... the weather was very cold and wet during our protest which discouraged our audience from stopping to talk to u for very long.
- · Location... the fact that the weather impacted on our protest to the point where we have to change the entire location of our piece at the very last moment due to health and safety issues really bewildered all the members of my group including myself.
- · Preparation.... more rehearsals and preparation were definitely necessary.
- · Visual aids... bigger bolder visual aids would have improved our protest and interested our audience more.
- · Bright colours... I believe if perhaps all the members of my group had t shirts made in big bright bold colours with specific phrases printed on them this would definitely improve the overall protest and engage the audience more.
- · Diff targeted audience... I personally believe our target audience was of the wrong age to fully comprehend the seriousness of what we were protesting about.
- · Incentive... If perhaps we had some sort of and informative incentive to offer our audience this could have add depth to the impact we made. For example: food (cupcakes, cookies, etc...) printed keying’s, pamphlets, drinks with facts printed on labels, various other things to attract people to come and talk to us.
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