Awards Location Recce

Today we went down to the Hawth and had a look at the location in which we shall be hosting our awards ceremony. The technician showed us the space which we will be using on the night itself. The show will run 7:00pm til 8:30pm June 23rd. We will be able to get into the space at 6pm to commence setting up the stage area, audience seating, lighting, audio and other technical elements such as the projector (which will be setup in a cradle above the audience).

As part of my role as Stage Manager, it is important that I noted the dimensions of the the stage area

I found out that the stage area is 10 metres by 6metres. However when we position the movable curtain so that the stage is split into a front-stage section measuring 4.75 metres by 10 metres and a back-stage section measuring 1.25 metres by 10 metres.

Tomorrow I will need to discuss some issues with Sharron who is also a Stage Manager, such as the stage layout, entrances/exits, access from audience to stage etc.

Requirements of the Brief

We have been set the task of producing 2 advertisements for the awards show that we will be running on 23/06/08. One of these advertisements is to be a poster which we must produce individually, and a group produced advertisement.

For the group produced advertisement, we can pick one of the following formats:

• A Radio advert
• An audio visual Web advert
• A Leaflet or printed advertorial

After first choosing our preferred format of advertisement, we must then get started on the pre-production work for both sections of this task.

These should include (where relevant):

• Treatment
• Production Schedule
• Timeline
• Production / Blog Diary
• Meeting Notes
• Story-boards
• Layout Designs
• Justification of Management Role

After my Group (Luke, Bobby & I) has reached a conclusion on which format our group advertisement will be, we can get started on the pre-production work.

Today’s Blog Diary
06/05/08

Today we discussed which advertising medium we should use for our group produced advertisement. We decided to embark on producing a radio advertisement. We will split and discuss the pre-production work next week, as well as allocating group roles. For the remainder of today’s lesson I will be working on the treatment and rough draft of my poster.