On Wednesday 7 September all Portchester Community School students who are taking part in the Creative and Media Diploma began to sort out their pantomime - "Aladdin".
We were each given a seperate brief which had been made specifically for our different jobs to do with the pantomime. I worked in two groups, with the people who I was working with (I'm working on two seperate parts of the project so I needed to work in two seperate groups). I went through the script with Hugh Seckington, writing down when music needed to be put in and what music. We noted this down and a copy of this is in each of our folders.
I then moved on to working with Lewis Benfield about possible marketing ideas, we came up with things such as; posting information on marketing websites (twitter, facebook, myspace, bebo, ect.), posters around Portchester, school website, tell family and friends, advert in assembly, and other ideas. We decided that we are going to take various pictures and recordings of the cast and rehearsal times to put on posters, websites and tickets etc.
We then met up with the rest of the group (including actors, dancers and crew from the rest of the school). As we did not have a person to play the Empress I volunteered to play the part and we decided that it worked very well because I am tall and Harry (who was originally the Emperor) is small. Since then, Jacob Rogers has taken over the role of the Emperor.... to my utter disappointment!
We stayed until 5pm working on the pantomime, running through as much of the script as we could whilst acting it out on the stage in the main hall of the school. We got a third way through the play and it was beginning to take place. Our actors were beginning to mold themselves in their characters.
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