A plea or a gripe-depends where you are

Mon, 13 Oct 2008, 11:50 am

Norma26 posts in thread

This is a plea which may well sound inconsequential or not worth bothering about and may well bring down the wrath of God on my head but..........

To everyone who designs/makes-up/is responsible for Posters

Please. Please PLEASE include the year of production in your designs.

Now this may sound obvious/trite/not worth bothering about BUT I do assure you that in time to come when some poor soul is trying to make sense of the archives (which are usually in a mess when some brave person decides to get them in some kind of order) it saves much frustration and hair-pulling out.

And this is where I get myself into more trouble- the design is not as important as the basic information-WHAT-WHERE-WHEN-HOW MUCH-WHERE DO I GET TICKETS

OK off my soap-box

Good Idea!

Wed, 15 Oct 2008, 05:50 pm

Taurean

Agreed "Poster Designer" , that would be a very simple (and simplistic) solution to the problem ... for future archivist's ... but unfortunately it will not solve the problems of the here and now. As for Norma's primary problem..... short of dredging through the Box Office archives and "rights Applications" (which should have been held in safe keeping) to determine which poster matched which production in which year, I'm afraid I cannot help.

However, I second the motion raised by "Poster Designer" (oh darn!!... does this constitute troll fodder? :O) to set a precedent and place a 10 pt year in the bottom R/H corner, either in Roman numerals or in English (?), of all poster designs to make our future librarians/archivist's work just that little bit easier... I know I'll certainly be pushing for it with any show's I have a hand in in future!

"Be nice to your Tech's - or they'll turn out the lights and go home!"

Thread (26 posts)

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A plea or a gripe-depends where you are— Norma13 Oct 2008

Feel for you— Labrug13 Oct 2008
- Posters are usually— Walter Plinge13 Oct 2008
  - Missing the point— Labrug13 Oct 2008
I know it is irrelevant— jeffhansen13 Oct 2008
Year a must !!— Melz13 Oct 2008
A plea or a gripe— Norma13 Oct 2008
- Bill Posters is innocent!— crgwllms13 Oct 2008
There's an obvious— Na13 Oct 2008
There's an obvious.....— Norma13 Oct 2008
- I didn't miss the point. I— Na13 Oct 2008
I didn't miss the point....— Norma13 Oct 2008
Bill Posters is innocent— Norma14 Oct 2008
- After reading the point— Walter Plinge14 Oct 2008
  - Good Idea!— Taurean15 Oct 2008
    - "Arabic" is the word you— jeffhansen15 Oct 2008
    - Good Idea— Norma16 Oct 2008
      - ···
        This is a good point Norma,— JoeMc16 Oct 2008
- contradictory— Stephen W Hawking14 Oct 2008
In the meantime— Kimberley14 Oct 2008
Agreed!— Walter Plinge14 Oct 2008
- Or another idea...— Freddie Badgery14 Oct 2008
It would also cost more at— Walter Plinge14 Oct 2008
I have to say that this— Logos16 Oct 2008
I have to say this— Norma16 Oct 2008
Agree— Tari-Xalyr18 Oct 2008

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