#34 When fiction looks at you

To recap, last week we left off. Jeromy had gotten a call from a local bar/beer garden asking him to produce a Halloween season show for their upstairs space. They had a month to make this show, the rabbit cage, come together. 

We talk about this adventure in creation and how one could layer experiences together, in the make it immersive segment. Jeromy tells us about an experience he had with Sleep No More, and another where he was momentarily, and thrillingly convinced he was about to be abducted into an experience. Finally, Jeromy talks about the power of being seen and what could happen when an experience is bold enough to stretch the boundary of entertainment.

The ideas that make the foundation of what we do when we create, or go out to an immersive experience are becoming more common. The language of immersive [beat] is beginning to be adopted because whether you’re designing a set, a workplace, a school, or your living room, it applies. If you’re listening to this, you’re witnessing the edge of what is likely a profound shift in the way our culture thinks about shaping the world around us. [beat] And no matter what happens, there is one thing we can be sure about the future of immersive experience… 2020 is going to be wild. Enjoy 

Selected Links:

Dino Lion
-Facebook
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The Rabbit Cage

Festival of Disruption
David Lynch
Sleep No More
Day for night festival
Sundance Film Festival

Grey Area, San Francisco
The 21 experience
Beta Theater
Alternate Reality Game
Overlook film festival

Show Notes:

•A month to create a show [4:03]
•All ideas beget other ideas [5:54]
•A brilliant spoiler (for The Rabbit Cage) [7:01]
•Make it immersive [8:47]
•The festival of disruption: Dino Lion Style [6:38]
•Immersive is…. [11:30]
•The in-between could also be an immersive experience! [15:25]
•A Sleep No More Story [16:10]
•An experience within an experience. Where the experience ends [18:31]
•A story about the twenty-one experience. “These guys are going to get out and bag me and throw me this van” [20:24]
•Jeromy Barber on exciting new things in immersive creation [23:01]
•“I want to make work that authentically knows people… There’s a lot of power in being known” [25:24]
•The lattice effect; on being a supportive structure [27:16]
•Being seen; when fiction looks at you [30:13]