Flash mob experience.
It was nearly two months ago now that we were given the brief to take part in a flash mob, at
first my heart sank as I really don’t like drama. It scares me to death, I
dropped that subject way back in year 9, as soon as I didn’t have to do it
anymore. So we were put into groups with some third year drama students and
shared some ideas on what we could do for our flash mob and where we could do
it. At first we came up with the idea to go with identity and how everyone
dresses the same, following a celebrity influence, but trying to break out of
this mould. After a little while together we had to all go our separate ways
for the rest of the day, we made a group on facebook so we could all talk when
we weren’t together.
The next time we met
only half of our group turned up, a day before the actual flash mob was suppose
to happen, so we talked and talked and talked and worked around it. We spent
all that day deciding, changing and practicing as our whole idea from the first
time we talked had changed, we were now doing social media and how everyone
follows each other like sheep. So we all decided we would all wear black and
have a sheep mask on. We practised and then there was no more that could be
done the flab mob was tomorrow and I was quite nervous.
Of course we were last
so we watched everyone do there’s and then it was our turn. We chose to locate
it in St.davids centre by Starbucks and Debenhams, we all came from different
directions and soon it had begun, we started by getting into a circle and
taking selfies then started moving around the space, we then got into a circle
and took photo’s of one of our group members inside, showing her as the centre
of attention, we then moved onto a tweeting noise (tweeting those photos) which
is the sound of the twitter bird, after that we moved onto hashtags and ended
with a group photo saying #picoftheday, we then dispersed and then it was over
as quick as it had begun.
I think my experience
of being apart of a flash mob was a lot better than I thought. I was glad to have
the mask on though other wise I couldn’t have done it, because I cant keep a
straight face to save my life. I enjoyed it when we were performing, I enjoyed
meeting new people from the drama group and I enjoyed understanding a different
way to promote fashion, a gurrella marketing scheme almost. I also laughed so
much and it was a nice way to blow off steam, from all the work we had been
doing in the previous weeks and weeks to come. It was nice to be apart of
something completely different.
