I chose the paper “Appropriating Technology for Interactive Media in Theatre:
Design Strategies and Aesthetic Insights” because I have some personal experience with this topic.
Personal Experience
I have identified the potential of including animations in theatre plays a few years ago for a project in my local theatre club.
Due to the budget as well as technical restrictions we only ever played a static animations which the actors had to make movements along with it. This was challanging for them, because they always had to know the animated videos by heart. I realised that they were missing visual cues on when to, for example, raise their arm to “trigger” a certain movement.
If we had an x-box availble this would have been easier.
Source: Theaterzentrum Deutschlandsberg
