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Promoting Steam Punk Santa and The Spark Catchers

Group 10

Harry Barnett, Jamel Bond and Alex Doody.

Today our company had a short discussion with Rhiannion about how we can promote the 2nd year actors’ Christmas show “Steam Punk Santa and The Spark Catchers”.

What can we do to promote the Christmas show?

Hand out leaflets to households. With a fantastic designed leaflet, it will definitely attract the attention of parents who have children.

Knocking on people’s doors. This is a great way to advertise the showing because the majority of people answer their front doors. Therefore knocking on doors could help promote the show and sell more tickets.

Go out into town centres/shopping centres and use our talking skills as actors to hand out leaflets while giving lots of information about the show. This is a very good way to promote the show because as actors, we can talk in a very friendly way to the families which will persuade them to come and watch the show. Also, families out on weekends in shopping centres and town centres, many of them will have children with them, this will interest the children because all children love Christmas.

Rhiannon sent us off to promote the show by visiting old schools, sending letters, make phone calls and visit our old schools to kindly ask them if they could organise school trips for the pupils to come along to see the Christmas show.

What did we do to promote the Christmas show?

Myself and Jamel went to Dartford town centre with flyers which we handed out to some elderly people, parents with children and anyone who seemed interested in theatre work. While Alex headed back to his old school to promote the show.

When we handed out the leaflets, we made sure that we mentioned they get a free ticket for every 2 they purchase to come see our show called “Brown” which will be performed in January. We also mentioned that everyone sitting in the first 3 rows will receive free ice-cream when they dress up. We made sure that we mentioned this to people who had children with them because children love Christmas, ice-cream and dressing up.

I managed to attract the interest of 4 people in the space of 30 minutes. This may not be a lot of people but each person seemed interested in what I was telling them. Me and Daniel Gray paired up and went about Dartford town centre to promote the show. We managed to attract 1 person who seemed very happy and eager to see the show from what we told her about the play.

I also made a phone call to my previous secondary and primary school. I am waiting to hear from them.

Myself, Jamel and Alex agreed for Alex to go to his former secondary school to promote the tickets. He was asked to hand over a flyer and his contact details so the head teacher could contact him about a meeting on Monday.

Overall, I think it has been a good result considering we only had a couple of hours to do so. We hope we can be successful when selling tickets to keep our theatre alive.

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"See no evil speak no evil"

An example of censorship today in Great Britain would be the watershed. As most of us know before 9pm there is a watershed which censors swear words and nudity, but that isn’t all the censorship in Britain. Newspapers often keep subjects a secret by merely telling lies, the funny part is we believe them. It’s like they censor our brains from thinking, we are easier to control when we lack knowledge, and the further you go up in the industry the more you learn.

I remember back when the news of the world was taken down due to the phone hacking insident. This doesn’t surprise me because they always censor and filter information, the media work closely together with the government to keep the people dumbed down. In America it’s the same thing the comparison shows almost the same all around, most history as we know it has been distorted.

Ancient text from various civilizations of people has been burned or hidden, a lot of this happened during the middle ages. Since Britain and America were once one and the same they still have connections through the media, if you go to Hollywood today most stars work hard to keep the illusion because they are rewarded. As I look at the world today it seems everything’s is falling apart, the veil of illusion is finally falling down. 

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Censorship makes a mockery of the arts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7NKVT_mGM

I found watching this video very interesting because it shows how an artist would feel about their work being censored. The most important thing to an artist is having freedom in expressions; the expression can become unnoticeable because of censorship. I personally feel it is important for an artist to have freedom; a lot of the arts are censored because they expose the industry and government. 

The messages in the arts are nearly always warning the people, it’s like they are crying out to be heard. In reality I find it extremely sad to think the government work so hard to destroy their work, most governments in the world speak for freedom but their actions speak against it.

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Group 4.

Shanaye- I found myself really getting into your one, you seemed to be bold with us the whole way through. What I saw was what I got, I remember at one point when you said that you weren't going to say a load of rubbish about making the country a better place. From that moment I knew you wasn't playing around. You managed to add a good balance of humour and seriousness, I also really liked the accent you gave your character. Thank you Shanaye. :)

Sonny- Watching your character presents the brown party kept me interested. As I listened and watched you were bringing up some brilliant points on how the brown party is the best party. It seemed believable however at some points the energy slipped a bit but you managed to pick it up again and carry on. I could tell you were nervous at times but that made you be organic and honest. Thank you Sonny. :)

Adriean- As I watched your character I could see they had a lot to offer. It was like seeing someone do business, you knew what you where saying and that became evident. When you said things like "we will" I listened in more, suddenly it became serious and you showed you were in control. From the seriousness you pulled it back near the end leaving us on a light note, I liked your choice of words throughout you knew what you were saying. Thank you Adriean. :)

Amy H- Your character really made me feel safe and at home whilst listening and watching you present the brown party. I thought it was a good character choice, "risky" but you pulled it off well. You seemed so friendly, fun and wise at the same time. You had some really good points and brought them across in a soft way, I honestly thought it would be nice to join the brown party. I felt encouraged because you made me believe it was something to stand and fight for. Thank you Amy. :)