🎭 Mission A3: Initial Performance

Overview

What will happen:

This mission encourages group collaboration/creativity and sets up the Finale of the Fairy Royal's Birthday smoothly. Trainees will attempt to hire entertainers for the Fairy Royal’s Birthday, but will instead be tasked with developing a group entertainment themselves. 

This is an open-ended collaborative project for campers, though we hope they use wearable technology to do so. The intended outcome of this mission is to give the campers an opportunity to think of how to design wearable technology that augments or improves expressive displays as well as design synchronized or choreographed displays. 

Encourage them to work on the concepts they've learned throughout the experience so far (working in motion-activated triggers or making use of radio signals to coordinate for lights and sounds) but let them take the lead when it comes to designing this experience.

Consider how this fits into the overall structure of your camp experience. 

• If you are running the complete experience, now is the first time that the campers will be meeting with the imposter Fairy Royal. 

• If not, you don’t need to make the Fairy Royal an antagonist to the campers. They can be genuine in their excitement.

Trainee's Mission Objectives:

1. Coordinate a Collaborative Group Performance

Campers will be tasked with an open-ended challenge to create entertainment. They will have to work as a unit, embracing each other’s various skills to develop an interesting demonstration.

2.  Incorporate Wearables into Open-Ended Design

Students will incorporate their LED wearable experience into their performance without external guidance to achieve a specific need. Organic incorporation of learned technology will allow them to embrace their skills outside of assigned tasks.

Structure

Note: The time duration represents the expected length of the role-play scene and crafting for the activity. 

Please account for components such as class time, lunch & breaks in your scheduling. 

1. Exposition (15-10 minutes)

Location: Anywear Academy HQ

• The NPC Anywear Facilitator tells the Trainees they will need to find entertainment for the Fairy Royal's Birthday. However, his favorite variety troupe has food poisoning (ate the wrong Fairy Berries). 

• The Trainees themselves will have to step in and coordinate some form of entertainment that highlights their unique skills. [GOAL 1]

• This is an open-ended goal but may easily include group dances, skits, magic demonstrations, fashion show, etc.

2. Initial Incident (5-10 minutes)

Location:  Elphame Court

• Entering the Castle/Elphame portal Trainees may briefly ask the Fairy Royal what their preferred type of entertainment is before they must run off. These can be based on whatever you like or based on trends and inside jokes you’ve seen the campers create during the duration of the experience. 

• Here are some examples: [GOAL 2]

  • • • Anything with moving parts 

      • Anything that combines lights with singing or dancing

      • Anything that makes him laugh

      • Spectacular costumes

      • Anything with his favorite color

3. Rising Action (35-45 minutes)

    Location: Anywear Academy HQ

• Campers have the majority of the scene time to prepare props and choreograph their performance together. 

• Now can be a time when they create new functionality for their wearables or familiars (if created already). Try and guide them to try out design ideas for the group performance that they’re interested in. 

• Allow for at least one full rehearsal in the last few minutes.

4. Climax (10 Minutes)

Location: Elphame Court

• The Fairy Royal arrives in the last 10 minutes of the scene to view the entertainment. 

• The Royal should be impressed but can have some critiques and suggestions. 

  • • If the Trainees aren’t utilizing their wearables during the performance, suggest a more magical display. 

    • If it doesn’t involve every camper, suggest they expand their performance troupe. 

• In either case, the Fairy Royall should say what they want to see more of at the actual masquerade! If they love it, they'll go wild. 

5. Resolution Denouement (5-10 minutes)

Location: Anywear Academy HQ

• Campers return to the HQ to discuss what they’ve learned with their instructor/mentor. 

• Now’s the time to prompt them to reflect on what they’ve learned, who they’ve met, and how they feel about their wearable design so far. ( what did they think about the Fairy Royal?)

• Players should leave some documentation behind their decisions behind their performance just in case other trainees don’t go on the next mission.

• Documentation can include a paste bin of applicable code, a scrapbook page, or a group whiteboard that they can collaboratively work on.