Architecture in Cyberspace

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Both Holly Champion of Streamed Shakespeare and Matthew Jameson of The Space UK discussed purposefully using Gallery View in Zoom, rather than Speaker View, to influence audience viewing and interpretation. Jameson described one The Space attempt at this form: ‘There was one where we tried to effectively set up like a four-way camera with two actors. So, one was moving about – and the theory was, you'd be able to sort of track everything on gallery mode and see things with one camera that you wouldn't be able to see with others, and just sort of play with it more as a kind of visual thing and a storytelling thing’. In that instance, multiple cameras created a sense of multiple viewpoints captured as they reacted to each other.

Champion told me, on their choice to force Gallery View in Zoom: ‘it allowed us to show reactions. And we found that to be really engaging for the actors and engaging for the audience. But also, because it's a lot easier to control what is happening in the mise-en-scene of the screen.... If we use gallery view, everyone who was onscreen was aware that they were being looked at the entire time. So, they had to keep performing’. This is described more in Televisual Theatre.