Reality, real time, the now, the happening, the present. This is what most people crave. No one wants to be around fake people with unrealistic expectations, people want to be around realness and rawness. Not faked or staged, though there is a time for this as in theater. Yet, many reality shows with their scripts, lights and makeup attempt to show how "real life" - insert your favorite reality show - happen.
In theatre, time is of the essence. If a story line needs to be told within a ten year duration, it must be communicated to the audience through various factors in showing how ten years has passed. As we saw with the Twitter plays, time was shown as it actually passed. As we discussed in class, the twitter play Next to Normal lasted thirty five days reinforcing the reality effect of the play developing over time, real time.
We can see through other multi-tweet examples, the power of pace on the reality effect on these multi-tweet plays. Particularly, I enjoyed the plays where the characters attained their own account and would tweet as if what was happening to them was an everyday occurrence. Seeing their individual issues and reactions helped to relate the followers, audience, in the "right here, right now".
As for an example of a performance piece that I think has achieved this goal, I thought of the 6 1/2 year journey of one young girl taking a photo of herself for those six years and putting them together in a time lapse. Although, Yvette beat me to it and used this as her example I thought I would find another time lapse that I saw fitting. I think examples of time lapse videos are important to note how time and pace is used to show the difference in "..the so-called real and the so-called fictional." I have always been a huge fan of sunrises and found a really cool time lapse of a sunrise (music added for drama of course). What interested me was how the guy ended the video with playing it backwards and ending it back to the sun down. Just go ahead and watch it for yourself and see!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi4MaJKd1gA
I really liked this video you posted. It's interesting how time is such an important aspect of the "performance" and how the performance naturally occurs, which makes it completely "real". Very cool!
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