***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: Free-looking advertisements
Wed, 30 Apr 2003, 10:30 pmThe main reason that I find "flooding" the various bulletin board forums rather rude is exactly because of the short-term nature of most messages. It doesn't take long for a topic to be shunted down the list as new and longer topics get posted above it....so when someone posts endless copies of the same message on one of these boards, it effectively shortens the life of other people's message threads even more, which is a bit aggressive and thoughtless.
As Stephen has pointed out, that's actually also a good reason to NOT post too many advertisements in the forums - they tend to disappear and just get crowded with everyone else's posts.
The good thing about the Audition section is the way it shows an entire week and can be organised by date. All you have to do is be selective about picking one day each week (preferably where not many other events are on), and your message will stay on the list the entire week, and repeat the next week.
So if I have an event that isn't actually specific audition days, but I'm looking for actors to join my group/class/course, I only need to put a message in every Tuesday, say, and make it clear in the subject that it's a notice to enrol (or whatever); and when the course has started or is no longer taking enrolments my notice can drop off the list.
There's so much similarity between actors looking for auditions / actors looking for events to participate in, that they can quite easily exist in the same section...in fact it's pretty useful that they do.
The Audition section is probably the most highly read section here, and it's a reasonable assumption to think most people who browse there will not stop at one but probably look at ALL offers there...like job hunting, you want to peruse all the options. There's little point in repeating a message in the same week unless it really is day-specific (ie auditions for my play this Mon, Tues and Wed night at 6pm)...it's going to be seen.
If it gets too crowded with repeating messages, it just makes it all really hard to read and defeats the purpose a bit...I think that's what gets annoying to readers. I trust that people posting there can figure out an effective way to use it wisely, because yes, it's a damn useful - and FREE - resource !!! Yay!
Cheers,
Craig
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As Stephen has pointed out, that's actually also a good reason to NOT post too many advertisements in the forums - they tend to disappear and just get crowded with everyone else's posts.
The good thing about the Audition section is the way it shows an entire week and can be organised by date. All you have to do is be selective about picking one day each week (preferably where not many other events are on), and your message will stay on the list the entire week, and repeat the next week.
So if I have an event that isn't actually specific audition days, but I'm looking for actors to join my group/class/course, I only need to put a message in every Tuesday, say, and make it clear in the subject that it's a notice to enrol (or whatever); and when the course has started or is no longer taking enrolments my notice can drop off the list.
There's so much similarity between actors looking for auditions / actors looking for events to participate in, that they can quite easily exist in the same section...in fact it's pretty useful that they do.
The Audition section is probably the most highly read section here, and it's a reasonable assumption to think most people who browse there will not stop at one but probably look at ALL offers there...like job hunting, you want to peruse all the options. There's little point in repeating a message in the same week unless it really is day-specific (ie auditions for my play this Mon, Tues and Wed night at 6pm)...it's going to be seen.
If it gets too crowded with repeating messages, it just makes it all really hard to read and defeats the purpose a bit...I think that's what gets annoying to readers. I trust that people posting there can figure out an effective way to use it wisely, because yes, it's a damn useful - and FREE - resource !!! Yay!
Cheers,
Craig
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