murder on the mission to mars

My immediate thought as to what to create on our third Pressure Project involving mystery was Murder Mystery Party and the Clue Movie. Should I randomize three minutes worth of clips from the movie as a guessing game? Can I assign people to be the characters and initiate a Live Action Re-staging of the movie? Then I realized that I might as well create my own mystery: a mystery on a mission to mars.

Excited to explore lighting elements through a Send Midi Show Controller as well as how to assign characters in real-time via a sound level watcher and inside range actor, I created a four-scene interactive experience in which the audience acts as first adventurers en route to Mars–interrupted by murder. The three-minute time limit acted as prevention from creating an entire narrative delving into these characters, but also creates an interested set-up for the audience. Mars seems to be the focus until the story shifts. I’m interested in creating more of the context around why/who/how and feedback from my classmates implied that there was some curiosity around details.