After weeks of preparing all of these ideas and ordering props and costumes it had finally come to the point in which we felt as a group we were now able to start rehearsing the performance. We were inducted on the lighting desk and the sound desk as well as the software used for audial and visual queues.
At first, the rehearsals seemed to be quite challenging and we seemed to be bumping into a lot of problems that we felt were going to end up letting us down. However, Jacob always had fun warm-up exercises that he would use to boost the group's spirit. Nearer to the end of the rehearsing period, Jacob asked us for any feedback we had on the rehearsals, to quote myself I wrote, "The warm-up activities were fun and they brought out fond memories of when I've done things similar to that in the past, they were very effecting with getting me warmed up. I was also very happy with the fact that we got to test the radio mic with live effects as this was something I was hoping to do from the start so I was pleasantly surprised to see it work." There were some rehearsals in which my attendance was slightly late and I do very much blame myself for that. As we started approaching the end of rehearsals I could feel my motivation starting to slip but Jacob was always extremely helpful in finding new ways of motivating us.
After days and days of rehearsing quite non-stop we finally felt as though our performance was ready, it had hit the standard that we wanted it to be at. We were all feeling quite anxious yet ready to show Sarah and Christina what he had prepared for both them and the audience that would be viewing the performance. It finally got to dress rehearsal and we were eagerly waiting for our turn to perform, going through all the props and costumes and ensuring everybody had everything ready for the performance. However, Sarah and Christina informed us that they wanted to have a chat with everyone before we started dress rehearsals. We were told that due to the global pandemic that seemed to be getting worse daily we would be unable to get an audience to view our performances which meant we had to switch the performances to be online livestreams, ours being an escape room there was no real way that we could turn this performance into a livestream. We were distraught, everything that we had worked so hard to create just seemed to crumble into dust. We were given a break to discuss the possibilities of our performances and at first we came up with the idea of a Bandersnatch type of performance in which the audience would be a new scientist who would have to escape the SCP Foundation through a number of choices that would be presented to them. After finally deciding on all of the choices that the audience would be given we were faced with another problem, this was that the University may close which meant we would not actually be able to film any of the choices that the audience would choose, we were once again at a crossroads until Jacob suggested the idea of a Skype performance, we finally were set on a performance that would take place over Skype and it would consist of 2 new council members being invited into the 05 Council of the SCP Universe which would throughout the performance get infiltrated and result in everybody except the 2 new members dying. We very quickly prepared a script for this idea and got to work straight away. Now we were just waiting on the day of the performance.
