Diary of Assembling a Livestream Series Part 1
What's my role?
The word assembler has appealed to me recently. When I make art I feel like I'm just assembling thoughts and collaging media. My baseline objective is to create a show that is entertaining and meaningful to audiences. I want to ensure the lineup is made up of wonderful people. And I want those wonderful people to be supported with whatever they need that I can provide or connect them with, whether it is technical expertise, a dramaturgical sounding board, and ultimately a receptive audience.
Who should be a part of this show?
Keeping the door open for anyone to contribute to this show feels important. I inherited a list of emails for people who have expressed interest in participating, made up of strangers and many I’ve met from previous editions. Emailing that list ensures there will be the minimum amount of material for a show. There is space for more. So, I am inviting people I have a relationship with, whose work I love, and asking people who I think would know some people to connect me with them.
Captions
- If the performance follows a script, then I could scroll through it via a window at the bottom of the video (does this make sense?)
- If there’s improvisation or the above option doesn’t work, I’ll set up webcaptioner.com, which will automatically generate captions!
Graphic / Marketing Materials
MONEY!
Thanks to the Tank, every person/performance unit will receive $20, which obviously isn’t a lot but I’m super grateful for this monetary and administrative support. My hope is that if these next few editions to go well, I would seek additional funding to pay participating artists more. Or I could pay for graphic designers to create marketing materials, composers to write transition music, etc
Random thoughts:
- Do strangers feel comfortable emailing me to express interest in participating? Should I make a form?
- I want to make a trailer for the show
- I don’t want to host the show, in fact I don’t think the show really needs a compére to speak in between each performance. My plan is to try and weave the performances together, with some nice transitions and music and text