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Audience Participation

Posted: August 29th, 2010 | Author: Jeff Soo | 2 Comments »

Last night my friends Wong Fu Productions held their 1st east coast installment of International Secret Agents. The final headliner was recently signed artists Far*East Movement, but what stood out to me was the little bit of audience participation they had before they went on (watch video below). The gist is: you call a number shown and appear as a blob on the screen with your phone number. The louder you scream into your phone, the larger your blob would get. At the end, they gave out prizes to whoever won. I’ve seen plenty of audience participation at events before, but never like this. Usually they would be texting to receive additional info, or getting a message shown on the jumbo-tron. I have no idea what this service is called, but I would definitely like to know, so if you or anyone knows, please leave a reply.

Update: Thanks to D.M., found out the system is called Big Screams by Elie Zananiri

2 Comments on “Audience Participation”

  1. 1 Tweets that mention posts by jeff » Blog Archive » Audience Participation -- Topsy.com said at 5:43 PM on August 29th, 2010:

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jeff Soo, Claudio Guglieri. Claudio Guglieri said: That is amazing!!! ! great idea for a talk , Audience participation http://bit.ly/av5jMu (via @jeffsoo) [...]

  2. 2 d.m. said at 10:05 PM on August 30th, 2010:

    if you’re still wondering, it’s called big screams.

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