Review On Some One's Work

Review of someone’s Work:-

Before we discuss about the work – I recommend you to have a look at this work.

I don’t want to give much introduction to this work – Please see this film:-

1.      Promo number – 1

2.      Promo number – 2

It is a promotional video of an Indian film released recently and achieved a great response in Box office hit. Before the release of any film – it is very important stage to market the film to the audience. According to the film – story revolves with a female lead character called Teresa. 

In this Film promotion – we can realize some important factors of the film subject convey:-

1.      Film subject - It conveys about the feminism subject.

2.      Date of movie release - April Release

3.      Movie title - 22 Female Kottayam

4.      Viral video to share the people regarding this idea through You Tubes and other social networks.
     
      Review on this Work

Descriptive:

It is different process of using bourgeois theater (finished theater).

Ø  What is bourgeois theater or finished theater?

In the sense of staging – it is process of presenting the completed/finished work in a space. Most of the bourgeois theater works are not spectacle to the audience. To make spectacle with the viewer’s – we can choose with the theme of using Invisible Theatre.

What is Invisible Theatre?

Invisible theater is totally different from bourgeois theater or guerilla theater.

It is a one of the staging process from Theater of the oppressed – the Fourth Stage. As Aristotle described in his poetics of oppression - giving the chance to the spectators to act and think while the play or script is staged. Theatre of Discourse covers with seven different types of theatre, namely

1.      Newspaper Theater

2.      Invisible Theatre

3.      Photo-Romance

4.      Breaking of Repression

5.      Myth Theatre

6.      Analytical Theatre

7.      Rituals and Masks

So we will start with the description of Invisible Theatre. According to the book The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip – Fruin and Nick Montfort, they define Invisible Theatre as a presentation of a script or scene in a space other than stage or theatre. It is important that the people are not real audience or spectators.

In the book – they explained with example of staging the concept in the place where the people who witness the scene are those who are there by chance.

For example:

On my observation I would like to implement invisible theater in the promo video of the film

22 Female Kottayam:

The characters who react  to the situation is already planned in the bus and in the street. The character's who act in the situation is well prepared and informed about the script. The audience are the spectators in the street and in the bus are reacting naturally to the situation. It is the method of using the process of Invisible Theatre through new media in non-linear narrative format. And the technology they used to capture is very low pixelated camera like low end mobile phone video quality. Medium used to spread the information through social network. The credits goes to the master mind, the captain of the project and the film director Asshiq Abu.

    Principles to be followed in the presentation of Invisible Theater:

i.                 Design new concepts every time:

It is necessary that the emphasizing concept not happening again and again. So, design new concepts every time.

ii.                Theatrical rituals should abolish:

In Invisible theatre performance theatrical rituals and practice of showing the gestures of actors should be abolish. Especially it should look like live and life event – which happens in real life.

iii.               Wall to separate the audience and the spectators:

We should be clear with the difference between the audience and spectators in the event. Spectators are the people who are not been ready to see or respond to a script or event. The persons who are all reacting or exciting to the happenings are called spectators in this case.

iv.              Performer’s are not an actor’s:

Performer who enacts the play – what the script demands are not actors to the view point of spectators. Sometime artificial performance or timing issues in delivering performance may result in incomplete staging or scene breaking. So, rehearse without mistakes and troubles.