On 7 October all Creative and Media students visited the Mayflower Theatre for a tour of the theatre and a talk from some of the people that work there about the business in media, how hard it was and they also gave us some ideas for advertising our pantomime. Unfortunately, we were not able to have a tour of the theatre, as the cast of 'The Sound of Music' needed an emergency rehearsal with the children in the play all day. The set was closed for everyone, apart from the cast.
We were put into mixed groups, children from all three schools intermixed with each other in the two groups and we went off in different directions for our talks of the day. The first one I experienced was a talk with Lorelei Reddin from the Southern Daily Echo, who explained the pressures that come with being a reviewer and the basic formulae of her reviews. She told us that she sometimes had to write her reviews within ten minutes of the end of the show for the newspaper the following day. She explained that she goes with friends to most of the shows that she reviews and takes their opinions, as well as others, into account, as well as her own, when she reviews shows.
She got the students to write reviews of their own about Quadrophenia within the time that she is given and she was to take them in at the end, read them through and declare a winner who would win tickets to a production that would be shown at the Mayflower Theatre soon (or currently).
The second talk that we were given was from the Press Officer for the Mayflower Theatre. She told us about different parts of the theatre and showed us pictures - old and new - and told us how old it was. (Pretty much basic information about the theatre, which is always good in a pub quiz!) She also gave us many ideas for the pantomime, such as promotion ideas that we would not have usually thought of when planning ideas for promotion.
It was a very interesting visit, and although we were not able to view the Mayflower Theatre behind the scenes we learnt lots of interesting facts about the media business and the theatre.
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