Actors - Are Apple Watches irritating?- Page 2

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 3:33pm

I don't think we should even get to the point of optioning "theatre mode".  Everyone has cell phones, already.  They all have clocks on them.  Just don't wear a light-up watch when you go to the theatre, Apple or Samsung or whatever.  I'm a technology geek, so I get why people have them (I would like to have one, myself), but I'm smart enough to know not to wear one in a theatre.  Or at least to keep it covered with a sleeve (though it's not a reliable option).  Take it off and put it in your pocket!  Put it back on when you leave the show!  GAWD!  I often forget how stupid people can be, but it slaps me in the face every time I sit in an audience for a Broadway show or Broadway tour.

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 3:41pm

Mister Matt said: "I don't think we should even get to the point of optioning "theatre mode". Everyone has cell phones, already. They all have clocks on them. Just don't wear a light-up watch when you go to the theatre, Apple or Samsung or whatever. I'm a technology geek, so I get why people have them (I would like to have one, myself), but I'm smart enough to know not to wear one in a theatre. Or at least to keep it covered with a sleeve (though it's not a reliable option). Take it off and put it in your pocket! Put it back on when you leave the show! GAWD! I often forget how stupid people can be, but it slaps me in the face every time I sit in an audience for a Broadway show or Broadway tour."

Why is that easier than enabling a mode that turns the display off exactly?!

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 4:06pm

CT2NYC said: "I'm surprised this is even a question. Any unncessary and preventable distractionin the theatre is unacceptable.Whether or not it annoys one person and not another is beside the point."

This. The conversation should have ended here. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 4:22pm

HogansHero said: "Notice how a thread that was supposed to be about the perspective of actors (presumably while acting) was hijacked by those only interested in themselves (in the audience).

I would think that actors are largely unaffected by and unaware of silent things in the audience. I'm sure watch screens are less noticeable than the reflection off eyeglasses. Should we ask the audience to take theirs off?"

Boi! Did you even read the OP?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 4:25pm

Why is that easier than enabling a mode that turns the display off exactly?!

Oh good GAWD.  Well, to be exact, I don't know if it's easier or not because like I said, I don't own one.  I can't imagine that taking off a watch or simply not wearing one is more difficult.  You don't even have to look for a mode or think about a mode or discover that you thought you disabled it when you didn't (as so many apparently do with their phones).  I know that on my phone, I have to find the various mode icons as they get relocated often with OS updates.  And honestly, people still can't remember how to disable their phones, much less adding another appliance they can't operate to the mix.  And judging that this is a topic being discussed, whether it's easy or not isn't really the point because people can't or won't use the mode in question.  If you know how to use the mode on your watch and you do so, then there is obviously not a problem.  If you know how to use the mode and don't use it, stay home.  If you don't know how to use the mode, stay home until you do.  If you don't wear the watch to the show, you don't have to even think about the mode or how to use it or if you used it.  That's pretty damn easy.  Exactly.

[Gensho]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 6:19pm

When I took my bf to see DEH a few months ago, I made sure he put his Apple watch on the setting where it didn’t light up. And it’s absurd if you don’t think the actors notice it. Ben Platt explicitly called out an audience member for checking their text in the mezzanine after a performance. 

Updated On: 10/17/17 at 06:19 PM

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 7:28pm

Again. As the OP - I asked if it was noticeable (originally directed to actors but comments from audience members were appreciated).

I have my answer. Yes. Thank you. I will ensure my watch will not light up during a performance, as I try to be considerate of others in the theater and elsewhere.

 

[Margo319]

Posted: 10/17/17 at 9:37pm

It's a fu*king light, that someone looks at during a show.  Someone next to me did that at a show I saw last month.  I told him to put it away very bluntly and he did immediately.  It's JUST as rude as a cellphone and JUST as obnoxious.  I am so sad that things keep getting invented that continue to disrespect a cast, crew, producers, directors and patrons of Theater.  Gross.