Saturday, November 26, 2011
Some Opinions
I have interviewed a few previous directors or 'techies' I have worked with in the past and they seemed to believe that I pose a very interesting question. 'Does technology affect any field of work in the theatre realm in a negative light?' is a very hard question to answer intellectually without any previous knowledge or study about the subject. My high school director, Julie Magnuson had said that she saw no difference in the relationship between the number of people involved in the show and the amount of technology in the show. A previous tech director of mine, who was just known as Steve, had added that he felt like he had either more people involved in crew, or he had more experienced workers. This specifically gets me thinking. Maybe it doesn't necessarily affect in quantity, maybe better technical workers are involved, theoretically making the show have a better output. These are just two opinions out of the millions of people involved in theatre around the world, so their input may not mean much but it gets me that much closer to coming to a conclusion. Any other people's personal opinions or knowledge is very welcomed and much appreciated!
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I don't know much about theatre, so I asked my boyfriend who is involved in the drama department at Corban University in Salem, Oregon his input on this topic. I asked him "How do you think technology has impacted the theatre arts?" His response is as follows: "Terribly. Media is so influential in developing a child's mind that today's children will know nothing aside from iPads, laptops, and Leap Frog learning systems. Due to this they never experience live performances or develop that part of their brains. It's not just impacting the performing arts, it's impacting the way children's brains will learn to grow."
ReplyDeleteSo he sees it from a slightly different viewpoint, whereas he's not really looking at the impacts now, but rather at the impacts for the future of the performing arts. What is your opinion on this side of technological impacts on theatre Antonio?
-Jessica
That's pretty good input! I feel, after much researching and interviews, that with the way technology is advancing, it doesn't really affect the jobs of everyone in the theatre, but looking at it from an audience perspective, children aren't getting live performances. Maybe this will affect the number of actors in the long run. As for the brain development issue, that's a whole other story...
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that I noticed in my high school theater, was that there were never enough techies that were trained on sounds or lights. People were more interested in being seen on the stage, than being responsible for everything. So it seemed like it depended on the people that were there, in terms of what jobs there were.
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