Perfect Melon
The happy hours
Perfect Melon team has arranged a series of interactive online events including Virtual Happy Hours and Virtual Tours, to further expand the narrative of the Perfect Melon Company. From October to November 2020, we have hosted Perfect Melon Virtual Happy Hours via Zoom, in collaboration with venues such as Altered Festival and Weston Game Lab.
The Virtual Happy Hours is an absurdist experience where audience enters into a secret corporate recruitment program disguised as a casual online hangout. The audience will meet the scientists behind this bizarre and “ground-breaking” company, while participating in melon-themed activities, including Madlibs, Four Corners, and Consequences.
All of the Perfect Melon team members would play as the company’s employees, going by the name of Director Gabby Exocarp, Community Manager Jas Cucumis, Social Media Manager Li Rind.
Each of the audience would be assigned an employee name and title according to their birth month, birth day, and first name. They would be referred by their new identity for the remainder of the event.
Each of the audience would be assigned an employee name and title according to their birth month, birth day, and first name. They would be referred by their new identity for the remainder of the event.
To fully utilize the features of Zoom, we have designed customized virtual backgrounds for different purposes. The name tag would help the audience to get to know each other and can be kept as a souvenir. The four corner background would allow audience to participate in the Q&A style Virtual Four Corner.
We have also take reference of different genres of online interactions such as cocktail tutorial and ASMR. As the interludes of the interactive games, we also inserted Cocktail Minute and Perfect Melon ASMR as one-to-all, visceral telecommunicating experience.
