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.