Week of March 10th

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.

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.

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.