Group members: Anidette, Anna, Cainan, Hannah and Michelle.
Title of project: “Wake Up”
Aim: To alert the Australian society to its own naivety regarding the lack of Human Rights protection in Australia through a interactive and mediatised performance. A dedicated website to this campaign will be set up. Probably it would be named “wakeup.com.au”.
Our campaign slogan: “Wake Up”, will be graffiti-ed/givent out/advetised on TV, Radio and the Internet. In conjunction with volunteer celebrities, we hope to encourage people to view our website which will inform more details about the main performance and how to get involved.
There will be mobile ‘confessional’ video booths installed in major cities in Australia ( Sydney, Melbourne, Dawin, etc). These booths will invite all people to have an opportunity to have their say and ideas about human rights issues in Australia, afterwhich the videos will be uploaded to our website and will also be projected onto the buildings at the various performance venues. For example, Opera House in Sydney, Federation Square in Melbourne.
The final performance will be performed in various cities in Australia on a specific date. On that day, it will initiate the campaign with the ringing of alarm bells throughout the cities at a specific time. This is to highlight our aim that we need to “wake up”. It will be followed with a performance by street buskers and musician simultaneously playing music in the various cities. The performance will be streamed onto the “Wake Up” website and possibly through a TV channel like (JJJ TV or SBS etc).
Budget: we will be seeking assistance from volunteers, government organizations, universities and students, NGOs such as Get Up? Action for Australia. (www.getup.org.au).
Dear team wakeup, what a wonderful performance idea! One thing missing for me in this proposal, is a clear justification of WHY you think the mechanisms you are using are essential to promoting this cause. ie Part of your job in your presentation is to clearly articulate the relationship between the mediatised performance strategies you are using, and key areas in the issue of Human Rights. It is great to see you are using different media platforms at different stages of the performance event (ie conventional media advertising/ promotion; intimate reality-style booths for audience interaction; collective action on the day itself. In your presentation, be sure to outline how these different media and 'mediatised' strategies fit the different stages in the performance event. You might also want to make sure that you are connecting your work with other artists that we may have covered - but I'm even thinking here of your connections with the protest works of the Zapatistas or Augusto Boal (who some of you might know from other courses)?
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