Category: Sophia Bishell

I am keeping a check of our social media group posts on Facebook and Twitter. As producer I must ensure that marketing and press campaigns reflect the artistic vision for the show and that sales targets are being met by seeing the progress of our marketing team develop. I am making weekly calls to the Box Office to check sales of tickets. After rehearsals cast members are posting photos from our session. Posts like the one here from Oliver Samuals is nice teaser for a potential audience member.

30th April tweet from Samuels

 

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https://twitter.com/FFrontTheatre

 

 

Work Cited:

Samuels, O (2015) ForeFront Twitter page [online] Available at https://twitter.com/FFrontTheatre   [Accessed 30/4/15].

Today’s session it was our first time back together after the Easter break and now a script was delivered to the cast to be practiced in workshops. For the first part of the workshop we read through the script and discussed the potential to the scenes. It is always important to try out scenes and characters before they are disregarded.

Now everyone had worked with the script as producer I made the decision to call a meeting for the company to discuss the themes of the script, and what we liked about it and what could potentially be cut. I put the manifesto up on the board to ensure our concept fitted to the script. This session was important as today the decision has been made to cut parts of the script to put in potential verbatim stories that we want to incorporate into our production.

Today Hannah pitched her song to the group, It has the potential for our cast to experiment with the childlike characterisation. There are members who are not confident in singing. As producer I feel it is important that members are not made to feel they have to learn to be ‘singers’ however I believe everyone has the potential to be a part of the song and speak sing in this particular work. I shall support Hannah in giving the cast confidence with their vocals by running weekly vocal sessions.

 

“Believe in yourself and you can do it!” Sophia Bishell- Producer

We have just had some great news…the University budget has been increased to £200 for each company. This means rearranging the budget and making adjustments to the spread of cost along the company… We may not need to do any fundraisers now as we are a low budget production. At least I have the contingency plan for fundraising events if we need any more than £200.