What’s up? Hope you all didn’t wait too long for our updates! Good news because there has been so much going on! Even though it was our school term break but our members have been faithfully pressing on through rehearsals. Good job teams!
From the script to the stage! Almost all the members in documenters were involved in the drama be it a major or minor character. However as different scenes were allocated for different days, not all of the members required to be there. But as always, the team did with what they had! At least 1 to 2 documenters would be on site to help adjust the script with the opinions of the drama teacher, Adeeb. The team also had to put a stop to Melvin’s self-proclaimed brilliance that Genevieve nearly resorted to throwing her slipper at him (no worries there were no slippers injured in the process of rehearsals). There were also certain points in time while making minor revamps to the scripts did they face certain roadblocks (thanks to overthinking). Fortunately by not overthinking, we managed to NOT overthink things and solved these roadblocks in the script.
Although we had gotten updates from the different groups to begin our blog, there was a teensy little problem. Our blog posts sounded like a boring report! We realised that we should give our blog posts a little life for it to captivate our wonderful viewers’ attention and not to mention give a sweep to make our posts neat and tidy. With 2 of our members (Atika and Bryan) on their holidays (hmph!) yet again we found ourselves with lesser manpower but as committed members to the team they helped to start off the blog. Now it is time for the rest of us to carry on the torch! As we started our blog really late, a few of our members who weren’t involved in rehearsals during the 22nd December met up with Saras to seek advice such as the frequency our blog posts should be put up. With Saras’ input, we tried to our very best to make our blog aesthetically pleasing and informative.
As for logistics team, they were all involved in the rehearsals too. But of course in a different way! Each morning they would be the first to arrive to get the necessary props for each of the scenes to bring it to the theatre and set them up before the casts arrived. Throughout the rehearsals, just like our fellow documenters adjusting the script, the logistics team adjusted their stage management layout and props list accordingly to make sure that no important details were left out. They had also ran through certain scenes to familiarise themselves with the lighting where they ensured the lights were focused on the main actors for the various scenes, when the audios had to be played and movement. Aside from all those technical details, should the hands free microphones ran into issues or required battery change, it was up to them to change and check the volumes for the casts’ line to be clearly articulated.
It was fixed that the control room could only hold 4 people at a time, so the team finalized that there will be a 2 of our team members, alongside a technician and volunteer handling lighting and sound in the control room, while the rest of them would be on the stage, in charge of wardrobe, stage management, and sound. Most importantly they took down some of important pointers of the various scenes with the aid of Adeeb and inputs several casts’ members to get a grasp of the scene concept.
Lastly before leaving the theatre for each rehearsal, the team would make sure that all the items and equipment are properly kept to the respective venues and the place is tidied up. First to be here, last to leave! Kudos to our warriors because this job ain’t just for any ordinary joe!
On the other hand our product sponsorship team are working hard to secure goods to fill up enticing goodie bags (we promise it won’t disappoint!). The team had also managed to catch up with our t-shirt sponsors that we would be wearing for the event to lower the costs (our pockets won’t be that badly damaged…)! As the production day comes closer, the team started to rope in volunteers to assist with the packing of goodie bags. Concurrently the team had received updates from Clarity and Saras with regards to the content and exhibition of the board designs which means that they would be able to finalise the final product by the end of the week! :D They then continued on their quest in finalising their emails to send to the different organisations. Keeping our fingers cross as we hope they would lend a hand in funding a meaningful cause!
What about the team that’s making sure everything’s in tip top shape? The programs team had a call with Clarity on Wednesday to discuss about issues such as the experiential booth activities, risk and volunteer management, evaluation forms, social media campaign and panel discussion. That’s quite a handful! After the call, they got right down to business, making the necessary changes to the experiential booths as suggested by Clarity. This meant changing the activities in their proposal, editing and writing new scripts for the audio file to be played at each experiential booth, editing the instruction sheets and also confirming the new logistics. They also drafted up the disclaimer notice for participants to warn them about the experiential nature of our booths and how it could possibly affect them. Additionally, amendments were made to the social media campaign ideas, as well as the layout of the experiential room and the open space outside. Furthermore, the team reached out to Clarity and our own lecturers' contacts for professionals to be panellists for our panel discussion to be included in the drama (Big thanks to our lecturers!).
Saving the best for last again our publicity team started to finalise the program booklet for the drama with the green light from Clarity. In addition they progressed with collation of ideas for their interview videos, edited their infographic videos and completed the write-ups all for their giving.sg campaign to help us raise funds for this event! So do make sure to check it out when it’s released! Apart from finalising their write ups, the social media posts and our event posters is currently going underway of being approved (So exciting!). Of course with our target audience youths, the team was also tasked to create emails to send to schools and organisations to garner the publicity.
It may be the holidays but all our teams are revving up our big engines to the mega day! A big shout out to all our teams! We hope you have a very merry Christmas! Stay tune to our next update!