When looking into the multimedia aspect of the performance we toyed with a variety of ideas, including if they are possible or impossible to do. We found that many were impossible due to the vast amounts of technology which were unavailable to us. We discussed the ideas of incorporating mobile phones as it is seen as an everyday essential object which is incorporated into the daily lives of us all. This gave the idea of using mobile phones in the performance to vote and text in answers in response to questions we asked the audience. Upon thinking about the practical side of this we discussed what the pros and cons were and established that many difficulties faced us if we were to continue such as, interference with the sound in the theatre, if people would be hindered by signal failure and lack of credit would have effected to overall objective. Another aspect discussed incorporating mobile phones was to stream our performance using them. This again was dismissed as lack of information regarding how we would go about creating this and with the uncertainty clouding our idea it was dismissed. Looking into production companies which have incorporated the use of mobile phones into their performances I established that Blast Theory had incorporated work which used mobile phones allowing members of the public (specifically teenagers) to register and txt Ivy as often or as little as you like. Questioning her life or asking questions in general. You will receive massagers back from Ivy either answering your specific questions or just updates from her. However when discussing if we could incorporate elements of this into the final performance we were discouraged away by the lack of funding available and technology made available to us.
Other elements we explored consistent of projecting our performance live inLincolntown centre. However, again made unavailable due to the budget and lack of available technology this then lead us to the idea of pre-recording and projecting the performance on the stage in the LPAC theatre. More ideas was established from this as we thought about incorporating Facebook and Twitter as elements which would allow our audience to vote but as we couldn’t guarantee people would have been online at that specific time it would have jeopardised the whole performance which lead us away from this idea.