• Introduction
• UpStage
• Background
• Project Team
• Technical Information
• Audience
• Audience View
• Audience Chat
• Players
• Logging In
• Player View
• On-Stage Player Tools
• Speech and Text Chat
• Drawing
• Audio
• Webcams
• Media Management
• The Workshop Interface
• Creating and Managing Players
• Creating and Managing Stages
• Uploading Media
• Creating Media
• Creating Graphics for UpStage
• Creating Audio for UpStage
• Appendices
• Glossary
• / Commands
• Text2Speech Voices
• Troubleshooting

Audience View

Audience members enter UpStage by following a web link from an email or another web page, and participate in the performance via the text chat. Audience members do not need to download or install any additional software as long as they have a browser with the Flash player plug-in. Audience members do not log in, and therefore do not have access to the same on-stage tools as Players do.

A splash screen covers the stage while it loads, preventing the audience from interacting until the stage is fully loaded. Once the stage has loaded, the audience will see any graphics that have already been placed on the stage, they will see and hear the performance, and they will be able to participate in the text chat.

The audience view of the stage is shown below: the text chat window is at the right, with an input field at the bottom and up-down scroll arrows on the right top and bottom corners. The rest of the screen is the "stage" where the visual action of the performance takes place.