Technology and its impact on live performing arts
Introduction and background
Performing arts have always formed an important element in communicating culture and emotions. The filming or performing process consists of four main stages which include planning, making, editing/ improvising and promoting. All of these activities were initially performed with a lot of effort as dialogues had to be written and not typed or scanned, they had to be photocopied and not printed, there were no computers to mix sounds, edit the effects and also to research. (Purcell, 2007) Technology of the present times enables theatre to gain support from other sources in order to make the ...
