***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: Frock-knitting advertisements
Thu, 1 May 2003, 07:48 pmHi Norma, Craig et. al
Norma Davis wrote:
> Yes Craig I wholeheartedly agree with your last paragraph, I
> thought I was a lone voice.
Maybe we could put this up as a poll for crgwllms and see how lonely you and Craig are?
:-)
> A good beginning for anyone who uses this site to advertise
> could be to actually subscribe to the ITA, it's not expensive
> $75 a year for a 'group/club/organisation' and it would help
> defray expenses.
I'd like to wholeheartedly endorse Norma's suggestions. The ITA could make very effective use of funds from more subscriptions to support theatre companies, performing artists and foster more endeavours like this website.
It's worth bearing in mind though that as far as defraying website expenses is concerned, the site only costs the ITA $44 per annum to keep the domain name registered and that charge was only introduced a little more than a year ago.
The vast bulk of the cost of maintaining the site rests with our generous hosts at Informed Technology (who incidentally are based in WA, so probably don't benefit a great deal from a site operating at a national level!) and the hundreds of volunteers who make micro-investments of time of effort to build a fantastic resource.
> I know that our web-master prefers this site
> to be freely accessible to all without restrictions but it's
> time for a rethink.
:-)
As Norma knows, I've argued very strongly in the past that the strength of this site rests in the fact that it is able to offer it's services free of charge. As soon as we start charging, even for some services, we start to exclude some people from participating. The user-pays model, as we've all seen ample evidence of over the last few years, eventually leads to those in position to afford to pay fees dominating the media and squeezing out smaller voices.
It's always time to rethink the issue, but just because the issue bears constant rexamination and reevaluation doesn't mean that it's time has or will ever come.
Now, some kind of sponsorhsip deal or project funding to support site development and real-world marketing.... there's an idea!
Cheers
Grant
Thou droning elf-skinned haggard!
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Norma Davis wrote:
> Yes Craig I wholeheartedly agree with your last paragraph, I
> thought I was a lone voice.
Maybe we could put this up as a poll for crgwllms and see how lonely you and Craig are?
:-)
> A good beginning for anyone who uses this site to advertise
> could be to actually subscribe to the ITA, it's not expensive
> $75 a year for a 'group/club/organisation' and it would help
> defray expenses.
I'd like to wholeheartedly endorse Norma's suggestions. The ITA could make very effective use of funds from more subscriptions to support theatre companies, performing artists and foster more endeavours like this website.
It's worth bearing in mind though that as far as defraying website expenses is concerned, the site only costs the ITA $44 per annum to keep the domain name registered and that charge was only introduced a little more than a year ago.
The vast bulk of the cost of maintaining the site rests with our generous hosts at Informed Technology (who incidentally are based in WA, so probably don't benefit a great deal from a site operating at a national level!) and the hundreds of volunteers who make micro-investments of time of effort to build a fantastic resource.
> I know that our web-master prefers this site
> to be freely accessible to all without restrictions but it's
> time for a rethink.
:-)
As Norma knows, I've argued very strongly in the past that the strength of this site rests in the fact that it is able to offer it's services free of charge. As soon as we start charging, even for some services, we start to exclude some people from participating. The user-pays model, as we've all seen ample evidence of over the last few years, eventually leads to those in position to afford to pay fees dominating the media and squeezing out smaller voices.
It's always time to rethink the issue, but just because the issue bears constant rexamination and reevaluation doesn't mean that it's time has or will ever come.
Now, some kind of sponsorhsip deal or project funding to support site development and real-world marketing.... there's an idea!
Cheers
Grant
Thou droning elf-skinned haggard!
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