From the start of the live performance creating we were all put into groups that we chose ourselves, I was unfortunately unable to make the session in which this happened so I got asked to be in a group as they felt I had skills within areas that would really benefit the performance.
I was assigned the role of Audio Manager, this meant that all things sound would be within my field of work, this was a role that I was more than happy to work in as I've always enjoyed working with sound, whether it's recording or producing, sound is something that I'm very comfortable with. I was tasked with thinking of ideas for sound and the way it could be used within the performance, Jacob, the Production Manager, even gave me the possibility of creating a piece of music for the start of the performance that could be used as the audience were walking into the room. I was quite intrigued by the idea of this and started to work on themes that I felt would suit the mood of the performance but wasn't too complicated so that it'd be a distraction to the audience. I did end up creating this piece of music but as it got closer to the performance it was scrapped (I will move onto the reasoning behind this in a later post).
Tom was put in charge of all things visual so him and I worked closely together throughout the process of trying to think of technical ideas that would benefit the performance. We had to ensure that the performance space had everything that we wanted to be able to use for our performance and upon discovering that it did we got to work on some ideas. From the beginning we were all very much set on an idea that we all really liked. Our performance was going to be a horror-based escape room, to be specific it was set within the SCP universe with SCP-049 and SCP-079 being the main antagonists of the performance, it would be up to the audience to try to escape within the 20 minutes they were given. After deciding on an idea that we were happy with, a company contract was created and we all signed it so that we were all aware of what was expected of each other.
Tom and I started to think of things that would technologically advance the performance and make it more than average, Tom said that he was hoping to apply a live sort of echo effect to his voice, at first I was somewhat baffled by this and was trying my best to think of ways that we could create this. However, I had a brainwave and realised that by plugging a radio microphone receiver into a live desk, I could add effects such as reverb, echo, delay etc. to the live performance. I explained this idea to Tom and he said it worked perfectly with what he wanted to do. When we started to discuss the way we could interpret SCP-079 as a character in the performance we weren't completely sure of how to present it, until Bill came through with an idea of having 079 as a projection on the back of the room that the audience would be able to see whenever he appeared, 079 was there to communicate with the audience directly via pre-recorded messages that would be said.
The creativity of our performance really started to gain its shape and started to make a lot more sense within our heads which really sparked our excitement for what we could possibly produce.
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