This week I redesigned the posters to have an earlier time and sold 3 tickets. I also created a facebook page for Bathway Theatre and event for the St Patrick's Day Ceili. I shared these on the Bathway facebook group and the UoG Freshers facebook page as well as my personal timeline.
I also resized the poster to create handbills which I placed in all of the Daniel Defoe mailboxes, in the stand of leaflets and pamphlets at reception, and on tables in the student lounge.
In the upcoming week I need to make sure everything is prepared for the party and continue publicising it to encourage more people to buy tickets.
Drama at Bathway
A blog about my studies of Drama at the University of Greenwich.
Thursday 10 March 2016
Weeks of February 25th and 3rd March
This week I organised the details for the Irish-themed fundraising party we plan to have on St Patrick's Day. After a general agreement that we should hold a Ceili dance from the Ripen Our Darkness, Blood Wedding and Bradley Manning production meetings, I researched the prices of different Ceili callers in the local area. Most agencies charged £300+ for a caller, which was not ideal. I found danceon.org, who were happy to provide a caller for £250.
I also created the St Patrick's Day Ceili as an event on Eventbrite. We are planning to do this for the plays in BfesT as well, in order to allow people to buy tickets online.
In order to make it possible for people to buy tickets online, I also had to start a bank account. I started a Current Account with Santander. If anyone buys a ticket using Eventbrite, the money will be paid to the Current account and I will withdraw it and give it to Dave.
This is why it took so long to make the Eventbrite event, as it was very difficult to get the bank account sorted and set up an appointment.
I also asked Mandy to help by selling tickets at the door to Bathway Theatre. With the aid of my mother and sister who are competent graphic designers, I created a design for the Ceili posters and tickets. On the following Tuesday, I printed the tickets and several posters. I put the posters up in Daniel Defoe Hall and asked Sophie Mahy to put some up in Cutty Sark Hall.
I also created the St Patrick's Day Ceili as an event on Eventbrite. We are planning to do this for the plays in BfesT as well, in order to allow people to buy tickets online.
In order to make it possible for people to buy tickets online, I also had to start a bank account. I started a Current Account with Santander. If anyone buys a ticket using Eventbrite, the money will be paid to the Current account and I will withdraw it and give it to Dave.
This is why it took so long to make the Eventbrite event, as it was very difficult to get the bank account sorted and set up an appointment.
I also asked Mandy to help by selling tickets at the door to Bathway Theatre. With the aid of my mother and sister who are competent graphic designers, I created a design for the Ceili posters and tickets. On the following Tuesday, I printed the tickets and several posters. I put the posters up in Daniel Defoe Hall and asked Sophie Mahy to put some up in Cutty Sark Hall.
Week 3
This week I researched the possibility of on-line ticket sales in more detail, realising that Eventbrite charges a fee. Despite this, after looking into alternatives Eventbrite still seemed like the best solution for buying tickets on-line.
I also worked on designing preliminary posters for the Save The Date poster design and the proposed costume party and Silly Games Night with help from my mother and sister, who have experience in Graphic Design.
In the Marketing meeting, we developed ideas for naming the festival. It was decided in Week 4 that we should call it "BfesT", with the initials "B" and "T" capitalised to show the link to Bathway Theatre.
Week 2
This week we had our first Marketing Meeting.
In this meeting many points were raised and we set out a timeline for further activities.
We developed our Marketing plan to include different forms of social media, including Snapchat, twitter and facebook. We decided that we would hold two fundraising events, probably in the form of parties.
In this meeting many points were raised and we set out a timeline for further activities.
We developed our Marketing plan to include different forms of social media, including Snapchat, twitter and facebook. We decided that we would hold two fundraising events, probably in the form of parties.
Tuesday 2 February 2016
Week 1
Hello, all! This is my blog about Week 1 of working Box Office for the Third Year plays.
The three plays are The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Ripen our Darkness, and Blood Wedding.
I have started looking at different options for selling tickets.
One of the options I am exploring is the possibility of using the website EventBrite to sell tickets through the Bathway website. The EventBrite "Event creator" allows users to create a seating chart for reserved seating, or simply state how many tickets are available for non-reserved seating. This option would make it possible for a wider range of people to buy tickets, and allow members of the public to buy tickets without venturing to the Bathway site to visit a physical Box Office. I feel that this would increase interest, particurlarly among the student body of the University of Greenwich. Members of the Creative Writing and English departments, many of whom are encouraged to see plays alongside their course, might be interested if they only had to venture to Woolwich for the play itself and not to buy tickets beforehand.
Another item which was discussed in the Production Meetings on Thursday 21st January was the option of creating ticket deals, including ideas such as purchasing a Burger with your ticket for a certain price which would be less than what the burger and ticket would cost if purchased separately. This would create certain difficulties relating to heating or storing food on site, but would be an extra attraction for guests .
Although it was decided that this was for the attention of Marketing, I note it here because it seems to me that anything relating to ticket sales should also be dealt with by Box Office, and as I am to design the tickets, I would surely need to design different ones for each deal to denote who had purchased food and who had not.
I am not yet certain if it is possible to add food deals to tickets purchased on EventBrite. I will investigate that further after speaking with Dave about whether EventBrite is a viable option to expand the Bathway Box Office.
The three plays are The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Ripen our Darkness, and Blood Wedding.
I have started looking at different options for selling tickets.
One of the options I am exploring is the possibility of using the website EventBrite to sell tickets through the Bathway website. The EventBrite "Event creator" allows users to create a seating chart for reserved seating, or simply state how many tickets are available for non-reserved seating. This option would make it possible for a wider range of people to buy tickets, and allow members of the public to buy tickets without venturing to the Bathway site to visit a physical Box Office. I feel that this would increase interest, particurlarly among the student body of the University of Greenwich. Members of the Creative Writing and English departments, many of whom are encouraged to see plays alongside their course, might be interested if they only had to venture to Woolwich for the play itself and not to buy tickets beforehand.
Another item which was discussed in the Production Meetings on Thursday 21st January was the option of creating ticket deals, including ideas such as purchasing a Burger with your ticket for a certain price which would be less than what the burger and ticket would cost if purchased separately. This would create certain difficulties relating to heating or storing food on site, but would be an extra attraction for guests .
Although it was decided that this was for the attention of Marketing, I note it here because it seems to me that anything relating to ticket sales should also be dealt with by Box Office, and as I am to design the tickets, I would surely need to design different ones for each deal to denote who had purchased food and who had not.
I am not yet certain if it is possible to add food deals to tickets purchased on EventBrite. I will investigate that further after speaking with Dave about whether EventBrite is a viable option to expand the Bathway Box Office.
Thursday 19 November 2015
Political Speech
I have chosen to learn John F. Kennedy's famous "Man on the moon" speech. The text, as taken from www.space.com, is as follows:
President John F. Kennedy
Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961
Section IX: Space:
Finally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take. Since early in my term, our efforts in space have been under review. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides--time for a great new American enterprise--time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment.
Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by thefeat of astronaut Shepard, this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful. But this is not merely a race. Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals:
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar space craft. We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations--explorations which are particularly important for one purpose which this nation will never overlook: the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon--if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Secondly, an additional 23 million dollars, together with 7 million dollars already available, will accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.
Third, an additional 50 million dollars will make the most of our present leadership, by accelerating the use of space satellites for world-wide communications.
Fourth, an additional 75 million dollars--of which 53 million dollars is for the Weather Bureau--will help give us at the earliest possible time a satellite system for world-wide weather observation.
Let it be clear--and this is a judgment which the Members of the Congress must finally make--let it be clear that I am asking the Congress and the country to accept a firm commitment to a new course of action, a course which will last for many years and carry very heavy costs: 531 million dollars in fiscal '62--an estimated 7 to 9 billion dollars additional over the next five years. If we are to go only half way, or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty, in my judgment it would be better not to go at all.
Now this is a choice which this country must make, and I am confident that under the leadership of the Space Committees of the Congress, and the Appropriating Committees, that you will consider the matter carefully.
It is a most important decision that we make as a nation. But all of you have lived through the last four years and have seen the significance of space and the adventures in space, and no one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be of mastery of space.
I believe we should go to the moon. But I think every citizen of this country as well as the Members of the Congress should consider the matter carefully in making their judgment, to which we have given attention over many weeks and months, because it is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmativeposition in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful. If we are not, we should decide today and this year.
This decision demands a major national commitment of scientific and technical manpower, materiel and facilities, and the possibility of their diversion from other important activities where they are already thinly spread. It means a degree of dedication, organization and discipline which have not always characterized our research and development efforts. It means we cannot afford undue work stoppages, inflated costs of material or talent, wasteful interagency rivalries, or a high turnover of key personnel.
New objectives and new money cannot solve these problems. They could in fact, aggravate them further--unless every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant gives his personal pledge that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.
Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961
Section IX: Space:
Finally, if we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take. Since early in my term, our efforts in space have been under review. With the advice of the Vice President, who is Chairman of the National Space Council, we have examined where we are strong and where we are not, where we may succeed and where we may not. Now it is time to take longer strides--time for a great new American enterprise--time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
I believe we possess all the resources and talents necessary. But the facts of the matter are that we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule, or managed our resources and our time so as to insure their fulfillment.
Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets with their large rocket engines, which gives them many months of lead-time, and recognizing the likelihood that they will exploit this lead for some time to come in still more impressive successes, we nevertheless are required to make new efforts on our own. For while we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. We take an additional risk by making it in full view of the world, but as shown by thefeat of astronaut Shepard, this very risk enhances our stature when we are successful. But this is not merely a race. Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals:
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar space craft. We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations--explorations which are particularly important for one purpose which this nation will never overlook: the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon--if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Secondly, an additional 23 million dollars, together with 7 million dollars already available, will accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.
Third, an additional 50 million dollars will make the most of our present leadership, by accelerating the use of space satellites for world-wide communications.
Fourth, an additional 75 million dollars--of which 53 million dollars is for the Weather Bureau--will help give us at the earliest possible time a satellite system for world-wide weather observation.
Let it be clear--and this is a judgment which the Members of the Congress must finally make--let it be clear that I am asking the Congress and the country to accept a firm commitment to a new course of action, a course which will last for many years and carry very heavy costs: 531 million dollars in fiscal '62--an estimated 7 to 9 billion dollars additional over the next five years. If we are to go only half way, or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty, in my judgment it would be better not to go at all.
Now this is a choice which this country must make, and I am confident that under the leadership of the Space Committees of the Congress, and the Appropriating Committees, that you will consider the matter carefully.
It is a most important decision that we make as a nation. But all of you have lived through the last four years and have seen the significance of space and the adventures in space, and no one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be of mastery of space.
I believe we should go to the moon. But I think every citizen of this country as well as the Members of the Congress should consider the matter carefully in making their judgment, to which we have given attention over many weeks and months, because it is a heavy burden, and there is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmativeposition in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful. If we are not, we should decide today and this year.
This decision demands a major national commitment of scientific and technical manpower, materiel and facilities, and the possibility of their diversion from other important activities where they are already thinly spread. It means a degree of dedication, organization and discipline which have not always characterized our research and development efforts. It means we cannot afford undue work stoppages, inflated costs of material or talent, wasteful interagency rivalries, or a high turnover of key personnel.
New objectives and new money cannot solve these problems. They could in fact, aggravate them further--unless every scientist, every engineer, every serviceman, every technician, contractor, and civil servant gives his personal pledge that this nation will move forward, with the full speed of freedom, in the exciting adventure of space.
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