My Piece

My Piece

My piece incorporates its multimedia in the form of dialogue being delivered on a television. This form of multimedia is particularly both interesting and complex as it has one member of the company asking questions to me as I deliver my dialogue which would have been pre-recorded and edited. This form of multimedia would allow the audience to feel part of the crowd as King Creon addresses the nation and makes his decree regarding the fallen sons of Oedipus. The challenge with the way we intended to incorporate the multimedia was that King Creon would have to respond to the reporter in a synchronized time with when  the reporter asked questions. Due to the importance of the timing of the questions and answers, it took my group and I three or four takes during the filming of Creon's speech. While delivering my dialogue during the filming, I delivered up to the part of which the questions were being asked and from there I had to begin timing myself during the times the questions would be asked and how long it would take me to answer them.

Our piece is set in the school's reception area and the audience would be standing in a crowd like manner looking to the TV waiting on King Creon to address them and deliver his decree. After the decree has been delivered, a reporter will emerge from the crowd, address Creon and then precede to asking him questions regarding his decree and where his family stands with it. The reporter will then thank Creon for his time and then walk to the side alley with a camera and begin flashing it and asking Creon to answer one more question for him while Creon struggles to get away from him and make his way through the crowd. While halfway through the crowd Antigone begins to scream from the top of the stairs shouting that he is a traitor and then attempts to confront him face to face.Creon simply pushes her aside and exits the reception area with the reporter still on his tail. Finally Antigone delivers her final piece of dialogue directing the audience to the next scene outside.