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Gabriel Rivas 3 Beautiful Trouble articles; week 5

Choose Tactics that Support your Strategy lays out the relationship between tactics and strategy in order to achieve a goal. The merits of this approach is in its logical step by step development. Each Tactic is a track that connects to the next on the path that is the campaign. Its is challenging, though, because in order to use this approach most effectively, one must undergo extensive research in order to understand the power structures of your group and your target. “If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.” This quote that leads that article struck me with regards to intention. It is important to be intentional about your actions or you will find yourself serving someone else’s intentions.
Tactics: Blockade describes merits of using a blockade as its flexibility. For example, it can be either and hard blockade or a soft blockade. It can aim to be communicative or concrete. A challenge is that if it is not symbolic, you need to have enough people/resources to successfully block off an area.
Theory: Alienation Effect has merits in that it seeks not to manipulate while still entertaining. The breaking of the fourth wall can bring an immediacy to a production that can serve the experience greatly. A challenge to me is that you are aiming possibly on lecturing people with some of the social critique elements employed. That, to me, is less interesting than showing a scene and allowing an audience to leave with their own feelings on what occurred.

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