...selling that material for home viewers to watch at home in real time....being able to choose camera angles and who to zoom into etc.
i would have thought there might be a market..people who cant get into a city to watch a show..or disabled people...or just people who want to keep up with whats happening nationally or locally, but who cannot afford to travel long distances or simply cant be in more than one place at a time.
2007-07-23 11:16:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Yeah, that's the difference between live theatre and movies... so many places to focus your attention. My favorite show thus far was Wicked on Broadway... we bought partial view seats from eBay three or four years ago and sat way up front on the house left side. We could not see some of the upstage stuff, but as a trade off got to see things that no one else in the audience could.
You can turn your head around, look at the orchestra, look at the house itself, whatever. That's what I love about live theatre. The environment is part of the show... could you do it with cameras and DVD technology. I bet you could. Some DVD's have multiple camera angles built in, but few that I've seen. But I would bet that a live theatre production filmed could make it work.
Get right on that... make your million!
2007-07-23 11:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by J@$ePh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine that copyright protects the performance. Also, it would probably kill the live market because a family of 4 going to the theatre will pay about £200 for a big show so why would they do that if they can see the show from home? It would empty the theatres that are only just making a come-back and managing to survive. The cast would also expect a higher fee because the audience would then be similar to television - after all - that's what live TV does - many cameras following the action in real time. Theatres make a huge effort for disabled access and getting to a city to see a 'real, live show' is part of the fun of the experience of going to see a show.
2016-04-01 09:39:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont think so. It would take a lot of advanced planning. The closest thing I can think of was the release of the filming of Richard Burton's Hamlet to movie theatres, but it was not real time. You would have to bring this up with a Broadway producer. Interesting idea.
2007-07-23 11:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋