Part 2 - Process - Scene rules and ideas

First idea

‘Man/woman predicted this day would come. Everyone thinks that the zombies are a prank, but the predictive person believes otherwise. To test the theory, one evil person kicks a weaker person out to see what is out there and report back, they throw him or her out of the back door where the audience will not be. There is an unbearable silence while they wait for the person to return. Everyone freaks out when a lot of screaming is heard and banging on the back door. The characters are in a state of shock and they don’t open the door till the last moment. When they do open the door the person falls in as if dead. There is a lot of blood and everyone now thinks the person is dead so they start to freak out again and try to think of a solution, however, the person who they think is dead wakes up.’

We wanted to make the audience stand in the middle of the scene so they can watch what is happening all around them. We wanted to make the audience feel as though they are part of the performance which would probably freak them out even more. We thought of an idea to start our interaction, by letting the psychic spray them with “disinfectant” (water), while everyone around them are getting more and more frustrated.

We decided that we are going to need more than just Lily, Elly and myself in the scene, we needed a couple of extras. This worked in our favour as we were told that there are some of the Panic Ink employees who were up for joining in, so, we could easily give them a part.

Rules

-Keeping it clean to respect the shop

-Warm to entice the gamers in to watch our scene

-Possible audience actor to keep the play realistic, red coat?

-Lighting, wires need to be hidden and make sure all valuable/dangerous shop parts need to be as far away from where the audience are to stand once inside

-Need to ask for permission to use the chairs they already have inside the shop

-Saftey first, doors cannot be blocked, audience need to be aware of any hazards

-Fire doors