Political Protest Evaluation:
As a group we decided that we wanted to focus on consent and all the things surrounding it, however because there are many factors that go into to the topic of consent and we wouldn't be able to incorporate everything we decided to target and protest to get a clearer definition of consent from the government. If we have a clearer definition within the law, then as a whole, society will have a clearer understanding of what is considered sexual harassment and rape. We all felt very passionate about this topic as we believe that so many people were not educated in what consent is meaning that it was happening more often. If there was a clearer definition of consent there would be less causes of sexual harassment as more people would be aware of what they are doing. One thing i realized when researching is that everyone has different views and definitions of the term consent and how far it goes. For example, some people believe that if you're married you don't need to get your partners consent.
We felt like it would be more effective if we had a series of movements to repeat in the 45 minutes rather then a scene that way if a audience member just came in the middle of our performance they will understand whats going on. This is effective and we chose to do this because we know that the audience members cant stay for to long so we wanted our protest to be clear and easy to understand. Another way we got our point across to the audience is using propaganda posters to express our protest and the change we want to make in society.
Our performance itself was quite symbolic so to people who briefly walked past the performance, the message might have not been immediately clear, however for those who had the time to stay and read our posters and listen to the outbursts made by the 'sexual abusers' it was much easier to understand and was quite shocking therefore alerting the audience some of the outburst lines were "did you see what she was wearing she was basically asking for it" another line was "he was sexually aroused of course he wanted it"
We thought that the location used by us was a very successful place to perform because there was a steady flow of audiences coming and leaving. We believed that the costumes we used really benefited out performance and helped bring our point across, because the people doing the abusing were wearing ordinary mundane clothes which demonstrates that an abuser could be anyone male or female. Also the victims were wearing white to symbolise that their innocence and purity is being tainted by the trauma this tragic situation causes. The trauma and the marks left on a person was represented by the red paint. This was a successful feature in our protest because the bright red on the white attracted audience members to come and see what was going on.
Overall i do believe our protest was successful because we did hear audience members talking and it did raise questions with them about what consent actually is, also a lot of them felt very uncomfortable watching our protest which is a good thing because it allows them to realise that what we are doing is wrong but of course no one does anything about it.
If we were going to do the protest again there are a few things we would change one of the things we could add is audience interaction so the audience are more involved in our performance, while also taking away more information about our topic. Another improvement would be to make our signs/posters bigger that way the audience members don't have to travel behind us to read the information we provided. furthermore adding more of a variety of movements instead of the same thing this will had complexity to the performance and make it more interesting for the audience, while also showing that consent is not just about consent for sexual acts, you shouldn't be forced to do anything whether that's sex or being forced to hug.
We felt like it would be more effective if we had a series of movements to repeat in the 45 minutes rather then a scene that way if a audience member just came in the middle of our performance they will understand whats going on. This is effective and we chose to do this because we know that the audience members cant stay for to long so we wanted our protest to be clear and easy to understand. Another way we got our point across to the audience is using propaganda posters to express our protest and the change we want to make in society.
Our performance itself was quite symbolic so to people who briefly walked past the performance, the message might have not been immediately clear, however for those who had the time to stay and read our posters and listen to the outbursts made by the 'sexual abusers' it was much easier to understand and was quite shocking therefore alerting the audience some of the outburst lines were "did you see what she was wearing she was basically asking for it" another line was "he was sexually aroused of course he wanted it"
We thought that the location used by us was a very successful place to perform because there was a steady flow of audiences coming and leaving. We believed that the costumes we used really benefited out performance and helped bring our point across, because the people doing the abusing were wearing ordinary mundane clothes which demonstrates that an abuser could be anyone male or female. Also the victims were wearing white to symbolise that their innocence and purity is being tainted by the trauma this tragic situation causes. The trauma and the marks left on a person was represented by the red paint. This was a successful feature in our protest because the bright red on the white attracted audience members to come and see what was going on.
Overall i do believe our protest was successful because we did hear audience members talking and it did raise questions with them about what consent actually is, also a lot of them felt very uncomfortable watching our protest which is a good thing because it allows them to realise that what we are doing is wrong but of course no one does anything about it.
If we were going to do the protest again there are a few things we would change one of the things we could add is audience interaction so the audience are more involved in our performance, while also taking away more information about our topic. Another improvement would be to make our signs/posters bigger that way the audience members don't have to travel behind us to read the information we provided. furthermore adding more of a variety of movements instead of the same thing this will had complexity to the performance and make it more interesting for the audience, while also showing that consent is not just about consent for sexual acts, you shouldn't be forced to do anything whether that's sex or being forced to hug.
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