Creating a Poster and being a Rehearsal Director (PPP) - 7/12/15 & 10/12/15

Creating a Poster:

Before adjustments

During last weeks lesson, the Marketing and Publicity group were asked to create a poster to advertise our show. It had to include when and where it was, as well as our noxious logo and a nice picture. Out of the seven of us, only four had done them for Monday. Julia took them in and had a look at them. To the side is the poster I created. On it, I included:

• Where and when the show is
• The name of the show
• The noxious logo
• A nice picture which represented our show. 

Julia then said she liked mine, however she had some adjustments she wanted me to make.  The first thing she wanted me to do is change the colour of the logo. She said that she wanted the writing of Noxious to be in either purple or white and then change the background of the logo to black, so that it matched the background. The second thing she wanted me to do is add purple eyes to either sides of the potion bottle. This is to represent the witches looking. The final thing she wanted me to adjust was to add the box office details to the bottom of the poster. When speaking to Julia is Thursday's lesson, we agreed that the box office email address and telephone number should be on there.
Overall, I really like my poster. Although it is not eye-catching, as it has a black background, the purple bottle and green smoke stands out, so will make people look. Also, Julia told me that my poster was going to be the front cover of the programme. This meant that I had to liaise with the rest of my group to make sure that the programme layout would match the front cover.

On the 11/12/15, I adjusted the poster to fit the criteria. I changed the logo and added the contact details to the bottom of the poster. However, I did not add purple eyes to the poster. This was for a number of different reasons. My first reason was because there was no eyes that looked good enough and/or matched the poster. My second reason was because the poster looked really crowded with them and so took the attention away. My final reason was because the poster looked better without eyes on them. Below is my final poster that I have created.

After adjustments

Becoming a Rehearsal Director for a lesson:

Every Wednesday lunchtime, we have a rehearsal, where the three rehearsal directors run over the routine they feel we need to work on. However, this week, the three directors were unable to come as they had to rehearse for another performance they were in that night. Also, some people from the class were also involved in that performance. This meant that they had to put three new rehearsal directors in charge for a lesson. For this rehearsal they chose myself, Eden and Jess. This was good as we work effectively together and therefore the rehearsal was a success.
As not everyone was there, we could not run whole routines. Instead we went through and cleaned parts of the routines that we needed to do. We cleaned parts of the witches routine and then rang that whole routine the best we could. It overall looked very good, however the dynamics weren't how they were meant to be. We then cleaned up the dynamics of moves and how they should be. After this, we taught Nina the new part of the Conference routine, as she wasn't in the lesson before.

Overall, the rehearsal was a success as we cleaned up certain parts of routines. We also focused on the dynamics of the moves, which we don't normally do, as we're usually just focusing on the movement. Everyone listened to each other and suggested ideas on what they needed to work on. To a certain degree, I would say that this rehearsal was more successful then our previous one.

Fourth Production Meeting and Strengths and Weaknesses (PPP + Jazz/Contemporary Technique) - 03/12/15

Fourth Production Meeting Overview:

At the beginning of todays lesson, we had a production meeting. In this lesson, we spoke about all the  tasks we have completed and all the tasks we're yet to complete. At the very beginning of the meeting, we had five minutes in our groups to discuss what we had been doing. Myself and the rest of the Marketing team got together and started to discuss this. One of the people in the group explained to the rest of us how they had organised there to be a cake sale in the main reception on January 11th. This is a good idea as we will be raising money and promoting our show. At the same time, we will also be doing a raffle, of which the main winner will win two tickets to see our show. We then tried to come up with other ideas of fundraising. We did not have much luck with ideas, however some people later on in the class came up with other ideas. We then got asked by Julia to create a poster for the show, so as a group we decided to each create one. Then we would pick the best three and put them around the school and then the best one as our programme cover. We also got asked to create a programme template and then make some official ones. She also told us to consider whether we wanted people to pay for our programme or not.
Afterwards we then got into a large circle and each group discussed what they had been doing and planned to do. Overall, this production meeting was successful as we discussed everything we needed to do and the deadlines we have to complete them.

Strengths and Weaknesses

In todays lesson, we had Julia. We mainly concentrated on Lucy and Blaze's routine for the show. At the very end of the lesson, Josie came in and we rang the 'hunting for the witches' piece. Overall, this lesson was very productive as we learnt more of the routines and cleaned up others. Both routines have elements of Jazz, Contemporary and Urban. None of my strengths and weaknesses from my previous lesson have changed, so I will discuss them again and why they're there this week.

Strengths:

• My first strength, which was in my previous blog post, is my determination. This is because no matter what happened during each routine, I carried on pushing myself to do the best of ability. I also made sure that no matter what had happened outside of lessons, it did not effect my ability to work with other people. To continue to have this as a strength, I will always push myself and be determined to do whatever it takes to improve.
• My second strength, which was somewhat a strength of mine this lesson, was my stamina. Although I found some routines difficult to keep my stamina up in, the majority of the time, I was able to. I know my stamina will never be my greatest strength, however I will continuously push myself to make it one of my strengths. To continue to improve this and have this as one of my strengths in lessons, I will try to dance full out throughout all rehearsals to insure it improves dramatically before the show. 

Weaknesses:

• My first and only weakness that I noticed this lesson was my spacing. I believe this was an issue today as occasionally I would not find my place in formations. This is an issue as I need to be able to find my place, without looking at others to find my place. Also, sometimes I would come out of my space, which would make formations look awkward. To improve this, I will consider where I need to be in all my formations.