***k**g advertisements
Tue, 29 Apr 2003, 02:11 pmCraig K Edwards24 posts in thread
***k**g advertisements
Tue, 29 Apr 2003, 02:11 pmAm I the only one on this board getting incredibly annoyed by the sheer number of advertisements v audition notices on the auditions page? Now, I'm sure that the 'Actors Workshop', 'Method Studio' and that 'Shangralai' (or something like that) all sell fine products, but my confidence in their knowledge base is somewhated eroded by their apparent confusion as to the meaning of the word 'audition'.
An 'audition' is a thing where actors wishing to gain a part in a production, or entrance to a funded drama school, or just get on someone's casting books, come along and perform a piece of (usually) prepared work. Fortunately, this lovely and indispensible website has a WHOLE PAGE devoted to letting actors around Australia know when community and independant theatre organisations are holding their auditions.
An 'advertisement' is a message/flier/article/website-posting/sound-byte etc used to promote awareness of a product. Advertisements can be quite useful in informing people that a particular product (eg a drama class) is available. They do not, however, bear any resemblance to auditions.
I would have thought that acting schools (of all things) might be sufficiently aware of the concept of an 'audition' to understand the difference.
There is on this site a bill-board, green-room gossip forum and a 'what's on' section where advertisements for theatrical products such as acting schools would probably be more suitable. Cluttering the auditions notices with them just provides ammunition for bored pedants like me to similarly clutter this forum with trivial posts.
Cheers,
Craig
An 'audition' is a thing where actors wishing to gain a part in a production, or entrance to a funded drama school, or just get on someone's casting books, come along and perform a piece of (usually) prepared work. Fortunately, this lovely and indispensible website has a WHOLE PAGE devoted to letting actors around Australia know when community and independant theatre organisations are holding their auditions.
An 'advertisement' is a message/flier/article/website-posting/sound-byte etc used to promote awareness of a product. Advertisements can be quite useful in informing people that a particular product (eg a drama class) is available. They do not, however, bear any resemblance to auditions.
I would have thought that acting schools (of all things) might be sufficiently aware of the concept of an 'audition' to understand the difference.
There is on this site a bill-board, green-room gossip forum and a 'what's on' section where advertisements for theatrical products such as acting schools would probably be more suitable. Cluttering the auditions notices with them just provides ammunition for bored pedants like me to similarly clutter this forum with trivial posts.
Cheers,
Craig
Re: Frolicking advertisements
Tue, 29 Apr 2003, 09:31 pmHi Craig (as opposed to crg)
> Am I the only one on this board getting incredibly annoyed by the sheer number
> of advertisements v audition notices on the auditions page?
I'll cop a portion of the blame for this one, Craig. I've not provided any particular means of advertising classes, courses, workshops, what-have-you on the site beyond using the message boards - and messages there have a tendency to disappear in a day or so. Ideally there should be a separate events section for these types of activities.
I think most of the companies and people advertising in this fashion have the very best intentions and deserve our support. Provided they clearly indicate in the title that it's a workshop and not an audition and don't flood the audition section by selecting a couple of weeks worth of dates, it doesn't bother me.
> Cluttering the auditions notices with them just provides ammunition for bored
> pedants like me to similarly clutter this forum with trivial posts.
If you're truly bored, get in touch with me about some instruction in web programming and I'll show you how to code that new events section.
;-)
Cheers
Grant
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> Am I the only one on this board getting incredibly annoyed by the sheer number
> of advertisements v audition notices on the auditions page?
I'll cop a portion of the blame for this one, Craig. I've not provided any particular means of advertising classes, courses, workshops, what-have-you on the site beyond using the message boards - and messages there have a tendency to disappear in a day or so. Ideally there should be a separate events section for these types of activities.
I think most of the companies and people advertising in this fashion have the very best intentions and deserve our support. Provided they clearly indicate in the title that it's a workshop and not an audition and don't flood the audition section by selecting a couple of weeks worth of dates, it doesn't bother me.
> Cluttering the auditions notices with them just provides ammunition for bored
> pedants like me to similarly clutter this forum with trivial posts.
If you're truly bored, get in touch with me about some instruction in web programming and I'll show you how to code that new events section.
;-)
Cheers
Grant
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