Michael Kras
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Ensuring Focus and AttentionWhen performing for walkaround, or even formal performance, how is it you obtain the full attention of your full audience? Normally, audiences are very attentive, but I'm sure we've all had times where there were a few people conversing in the audience and ruining it for others by causing a distraction. How do you handle it? Is there anything you do preshow that enforces full attention without making you look like a strict school teacher?
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teddy
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Re: Ensuring Focus and Attention | Michael Kras wrote: | | When performing for walkaround, or even formal performance, how is it you obtain the full attention of your full audience? Normally, audiences are very attentive, but I'm sure we've all had times where there were a few people conversing in the audience and ruining it for others by causing a distraction. How do you handle it? Is there anything you do preshow that enforces full attention without making you look like a strict school teacher? |
I would call them out. This embarasses the hell out of them and usually gets a laugh from the rest of the audience.
Something like, "Now if the man in the red shirt would look away from his conversation, he would see that the card has jumped to the top."
This also is a great piece of misdirection.
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Michael Kras
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That sounds like an effective method of doing it, BUT what if the talker doesn't notice you saying that to him? He is, after all, in deep conversation. If he wasn't, he'd be watching you.
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teddy
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| Michael Kras wrote: | | That sounds like an effective method of doing it, BUT what if the talker doesn't notice you saying that to him? He is, after all, in deep conversation. If he wasn't, he'd be watching you. |
I think if you said it right, anyone would snap out of a conversation. But if they didn't, my next move would depend on the circumstances.
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