Project 7: Penultimate

In the final days leading up we wanted to overlook all parts of the experience and make sure we didn't miss anything that could sabotage it on the day. The chroma key room was still in use so since it was not as much of a priority we stuck with the back up videos and moved onto more of the viral pre-experience work to hype it up. I was able to listen to Narus audio for the Adjustment interruption, just like a few of the members had commented before it did seem to be a little long and not as straight to the point. This might mean the Players would become very confused about what the Adjustment guy is going on about.

The shirt for the undercover Adjustment agent with the stenciled on logo.

Today was setup day. We got the posters printed and spread out in the studio. The CCTV footage was quickly produced and put up tonight on the Adjustment blog along with other relevant posts. The team here came together again quite well because we were able to discuss more of our ideas and implement them into the blog. Emails got sent out to the Players for their access cards. Ryan had the idea of making them look like ID cards with actual photo ID, I found this pretty amazing how much we can actually get off someone from the internet.

 

Jenny was able to finish the audio completely for the tour and before everyone left for the day I wanted to go for a test run around the area. When doing this outside on the streets we realised that the audio was not coming through clear enough from the transmitter and would break out from just over a meters distance apart. This was because there was too much outside interference. This should have been tested earlier but I felt there was no point testing on radios that we may not be using yet because the signal may be different on the budget, prototype ones compared to the final ones. I think we also made the assumption that the quality would be close to what was tested in the studio. I think a bit more brainstorming should have been done when testing the radios/transmitters. Luckily the group had a quick solution of just using mp3 players and having it play continuously throughout the experience. Jenny said she would be able to modify this over the night and have it ready for morning.

Our Regulation newspaper disguised in with other everyday papers.

We planned for tomorrow and sent out scripts that night for the actors to read for preparation. Jenny was tasked with being the Regulation Guide since I was not physically up to it, also because she knew the most about the audio and could direct the Testers where to go and what to look at. I said I would help with a practice run tomorrow so she could understand what she was doing and how she should act, I thought that this type of rehearsal was a little late but as we had not planned for my illness it was the best plan of action. We also prepared clothes and umbrellas needed for the day.

The website for the undecover Adjustment blog can be found here:

http://thepeoplesadjustment.blogspot.com/