{"id":151,"date":"2012-07-21T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imho.kileozier.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2012-07-21T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T22:41:58","slug":"refining-defining-divining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imho.kileozier.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Refining, Defining, Divining"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Audience expectation is defined by, thus limited to, what audience members believe is possible.<\/p>\n

As Creators of Experience the onus is on us, the responsibility is ours, to exceed such expectation and take our audience to unanticipated places, offer unforeseen experiences.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, this means we need to be up on the most recently-developed or under-development techniques for projection, movement, sound, staging… We are dealing with new generations of audiences who are far more sophisticated in terms of \u201cshow\u201d than most used to be. Between Google, all the entertainment channels, websites, platforms and feeds as well as the myriad other ways in which people absorb information; the understanding, appreciation and expectation of show and show effects has been raised simply in the course of daily life.<\/p>\n

This is good; this pushes us to extend our own reach. What it also does is place the burden of surpassing expectation (though, it\u2019s not a \u201cburden,\u201d or we wouldn\u2019t be doing this stuff) back onto the Storytelling…where it should be.<\/p>\n

In many cases, our audience will be just as savvy as to what is technologically<\/em> possible as are we. No problem: we are Storytellers, Creators of Compelling Experience.<\/p>\n

In immersive storytelling – experiential messaging – the key to Compelling isn\u2019t the inclusion of technology and effects; rather, it is the nimble and creative use of such things to the point that they become invisible, and it is their contribution to the narrative that brings the gasp to the lips and the heart to the throat.<\/p>\n

So\u2026Create, already!<\/p>\n

My own first step, as I\u2019ve noted before, is in the exploration of what is wanted: to be communicated, to be seen, heard and experienced. What is the message or call to action; the fable, parable or simple lesson to be articulated and communicated?<\/p>\n

What result do we seek?<\/p>\n

Second – to choose and then physically immerse oneself in the theatre, stadium, harbor, park, auditorium, ballroom, hall, mountainside or whatever venue is to be the location for this experience being created. Many a time, ideas can spring from the architecture of a space; the placement of a balcony, rock or body of water. Once I\u2019ve stood in that space and ingrained the features and personality of it into my mind, the concept percolation truly begins.<\/p>\n

Moving forward; my approach is ignore budget during the first pass at concept development; letting ideas flow freely – in my own mind or in creative conversation – unhindered by any Reality. When working with a team of professional craftsbeings – technicians, artists, talent, musicians, designers – I begin with an Unlimited Blue Sky approach.<\/p>\n

Were budget not an issue and we could do anything, what would we do…how best might we tell this story?<\/p>\n

Through my own experience, I believe that a far better idea can come from an unrestrained process than might be realized by attempting to develop a concept and physically articulate narrative within a pre-defined \u201cbudget box.\u201d Taking a magnificent, insightful storytelling concept and, through the alchemy of collaborative chiseling and massage, bringing it into alignment with one\u2019s budget, can greatly heighten the quality and innovation that comes into play. Unleashed creativity in original concept, studied creativity in shrinking the magnitude while protecting the integrity of the concept.<\/p>\n

I find there\u2019s a lot more love and engagement on the part of the entire team and process when everything\u2019s been expressed and explored and the Big Idea has been embraced. The risk of savage dogfights over resources is largely alleviated when the entire team is working to protect a big idea to which each has already contributed…invested. The net result is a more cohesive team and a powerful, compelling experience.<\/p>\n

Be prepared for some surprises, though. Even better, prepare your Executives \/ Clients for this process before you begin sharing the step-by-step process of evaluating concepts coming out of that process.<\/p>\n

I once neglected to fully prepare my Client Team for the possibility of ridiculously high numbers attached to concepts as the bid proposals arrived in for a project budgeted at $7 – 12million. When a bid concept priced at $37million hit the table, I thought we were about to lose one of the more fragile members in paroxysms of apoplexy!<\/p>\n

Oops. Clue \u2018em in. Early.<\/p>\n

For some, this may seem a waste of time: I think different.<\/p>\n

The net result of this process is that, at the other end, one has the best sense of the principals, ethos, creativity and perspective of the contributing contractors, vendors or teammates from and through the genesis. We end up with a better concept to whittle, and know a lot more about the potential members of the production team.<\/p>\n

Eschew shyness and caution; this is an exhilarating tightrope, imagination your net. There is no falling.<\/p>\n

We create better Experience from the limb than on the ground.<\/p>\n

imho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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