Programmes
Fri, 1 July 2011, 11:17 amGordon the Optom16 posts in thread
Programmes
Fri, 1 July 2011, 11:17 amA recent community play that I attended had a superb programme, beautifully printed hard card glossy cover, a total of twelve sides of A5. The layout was excellent, thumbnail colour photos of the cast and crew. The font was about 10 pt, well above the diabolical new normal of 4 point. The only trouble was it was $4 a copy.
I suspect that the theatre group may have a lot of unsold copies.
After buying the seat ticket, purchasing the dreaded 3 raffle tickets for $2, is $4 a little too much for a programme when a $2 (or perhaps $3) simpler version would suffice? Or am I a tight old whinge.
Programmes
Fri, 1 July 2011, 12:25 pmAnother instance of the old adage that you can't win!
On the one hand there seems to be the feeling that programmes have to keep going more and more up-market- presumably to impress everyone else! On the other hand??? They mostly end up in the bin afterwards, except for those dedicated ?few' who actually like to keep their programmes for ever - me for one!
I try to compile a programme that looks reasonably good, contains all the necessary information and does not cost a lot- we keep programmes to a cost of $2- less than the cost of actually producing them- some shows we get rid of a lot of programmes, some we don't and I've never been able to fathom out why!!
I like doing the programmes- and I'm not a graphics designer or even any good at "Art" but I like to think they are "not bad" at least.
I generally draw the line at $3.00 maximum when elsewhere, how about you?
We have often debated whether to include the cost in the tickets.....but trying to keep the cost of tickets steady with everything else going up, there's no easy answer.
And No Gordon you are not being a tight-wad- or if you are there are a lot more out there.