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.
When we did the first show
Fri, 8 July 2011, 12:07 pmWhen we did the first show at Phoenix Theatre, our progranne was a four colour printed cover & with a black print inners.
I wanted to make them available at a donation only, in fact they was initialy one placed on every second seat in the house. This lasted for a couple of shows, untill after a screaming match, I compromised by having them only in the foyer. Which was a blue & we ended up with quite a few boxes of them left to gather dust in the storeroom.
Mainly because of those with impaired vision they became ony available at a price & not placed on the punters seats.
The object was to promote the theatre group into the future & build a punter base of those who might not or have ever attend a local ameatre production.
My orginal idea was to have a standard cover for each prodiction & only the innards would changed per season, which flew like a lead cuddy!
But as I was not an officio of the group I let it wash past me like an ocean wave.
When I went back home to pohmyland a few years before, I picked up on this idea of a programme standard cover, which a lot of groups did there & only changed the seasons date on the programme & the details on inset pages. Being a geordie (aka 'Scotsman wi' nee brains 'n work'd oot") Aah naa t'wor aah varry canny waay t'dee 't!