• Introduction
• Quick start for audience
• Quick start for players
• UpStage
• About the project
• Team
• Get Involved
• Technical information
• About this manual
• Audience
• The role of the Audience
• Join a live cyberformance
• Chat
• Player
• Becoming a player
• Manage your Profile
• Backstage
• Create your own Stage
• Manage your Stage
• Customise your Stage
• Manage your Stage: Media
• Manage your Stage: Chat and Replays
• Manage your Stage : Scenes
• Enter your Stage
• How does the audience see your stage?
• Invite audience
• Media management
• Media in UpStage
• The Studio
• Creating Graphics for UpStage
• Creating Audio for UpStage
• Upload Media
• Modify Media
• Assign Media to your Stage
• Delete Media
• Player : Live Stage
• Enter a live Stage
• Quick overview of tools
• Who is here?
• Chat with the Audience
• Player Chat
• Player: Live Stage Tools
• Audio tool
• Backdrop tool
• Avatar tool
• Avatar Speech and Voices
• Avatar Animation
• Props tool
• Stream tool
• Live Drawing tool
• Object Drawing tool
• Text tool
• Depth tool
• Curtain
• Scenes
• Stage Settings
• Clickable links on stage
• Streaming
• Introduction to streaming
• Sending a stream
• Assign a stream to a stage
• Recording and Statistics
• Statistics
• Chat logs
• Replays
• Screen Recordings
• Admin
• UpStage administration
• Customise your Foyer
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Troubleshooting

Invite audience

While you are preparing your cyberformance, you can set your stage's status to "Rehearsal" so that it does not appear on the Foyer page. When you are soon going to give a public performance, you can change the status to "Upcoming". This will mean that the public can see the stage on the Foyer page, along with information about the show and performance times. However, they still cannot enter.

Before giving a live performance you want the audience to attend, you will need to change the status to "Live". This means that the stage appears on the Foyer page, and that audience members will be able to enter the stage and participate in the performance when they click on it.

Change the status of your stage

• In the Stages list, find the stage whose status you want to change.
• Click on the green cog icon to enter its management interface.
• In the General Information section, find the Stage Status radio buttons and click "Live".
• Remember to click "Save" at the top right of the page to save your changes.

Share the stage link

When the status is set to Live or Upcoming, the stage will be displayed on the Foyer for the public to see. However, audience members do not have to come to the Foyer to enter the stage - all they need is the direct URL for the stage. You can share this URL via email, social media and other websites in order to promote your event and make it easy for the public to enter the stage.

Information for the audience

To help your audience have the best possible experience of your show, it is a good idea to give them some information, such as:

• UpStage functions on laptops, desktop computers and mobile devices using a standard browser. Make the browser fullscreen for the best view.
• Time conversion: if you are expecting a global audience, be clear about the time - what time zone are you in? Add a time converter link to make it easy for everyone to find their local time.
• Audience interaction: does your show use the chat? How do you want to interact with the audience? Give them some tips in advance so that they are comfortable and confident to interact during the live performance.