What we want from the performance

This piece is a performance on many levels, creating the characters and giving them blog and myspace accounts is a performance in itself, but giving the two characters a story and the medium of video brings even more performance elements to this.

We want the piece to alert people (parents and the children/teens themselves)to the dangers of the Internet and how, what seems like fun, can spiral out of control. Creating accounts and putting video's on youtube is so easy, virtually anyone can do it and virtually anyone after that can view or have access to it. Internet stalking, harassment and friendships that get out of control, are all too common.

We designed the piece to be as natural as possible. We signed up to a range of different communities on the Internet to give us a '3D', realistic effect. From the clothes we wear, to the way we act and the language we use we want to come across as believable, realistic 16 year old girls.

My opinion is that, especially with serious matters that effect you personally and/or the ones you love, that if you see something that seems real you are more likely to believe it, take it seriously and want to take action.