Greetings again! Pretty sure you have been wondering what shenanigans we have been up to? With the confirmation of our event ideas, the different groups had more clarity (hehe) as to what our roles were. Without further ado we launched into our tasks with the strict and caring guidance of Saras. Take it away!
This week, the documenters were at full speed with the storyboard. During their meet ups with Saras, the team felt that it could be beneficial to develop pre and post evaluations for the registration process. With another task on their belts we had to utilize all the time we had through skype on the 6th of November in the night. Blurry minded, it came to a point in time where they could no longer stand their teammate, Melvin’s constant (pun)ishments, they booted him out of the skype call (Don’t worry they weren’t that heartless, eventually they allowed him back). After a pun filled yet fruitful discussion, they ended the skype call at 12.30am with the relief of not having Melvin’s voice ring in our ears. Continuing their battle, they completed the storyboard and progressed on to writing each scene in detail. In addition the team created a timeline of the drama flow. For example, the team wanted to link the drama in a manner that the experiential booths would be placed in between an intermission.
With a drama production, there definitely needs to be a name! Debating all the possible names for the drama, they created another proposal as to what we could name our entire event but sadly all the names were not accepted. Oh well, got to experience some bumps along the way right? But as a team they weren’t too sour over the rejection as the accepted name for the event, ‘Unspoken, the voice within’ was pretty fitting.
No time to waste! As the team moved towards the actual script writing process, Saras had kindly gave them access to the script that our seniors in the previous year had done to gain inspiration from it.
Having to work with Clarity, the organizing committee were also required to participate in the Caritas Roundtable V discussion to gain better awareness of the mental health issues and the struggles that people with mental health faced in Singapore on the 11th November.
Tick tock! Tick tock! As time was of the essence the programs team had speedily collated the gantt charts to ensure all groups were completing their respective tasks. With the guidance of Saras, the team was put in charge of experiential booths. The group than look into specific experiential booth ideas where they discussed the feasibility of each idea and how the experience would benefit the participants. With the script steadily building backbone, the team formulated several possible dates of rehearsals during the holidays (sobsss).
Our logistics team had already shortlisted our venue options to 2 locations for our drama! (Hooray!) They also started to divide the roles and responsibilities for the stage management (we’re counting on you guys!) including: Lighting, Sound and Mic, Wardrobe, Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Managers.
On the other hand product sponsorship braved on with their research from the previous week to ensure their final proposal started taking shape.
Finally, our loud hailers aka publicity continued to brainstormed for ideas for posters and online posters and created social media platforms for the event, specifically instagram, twitter and facebook. (Psst do follow!)
Another hectic but yet productive week… Stay tuned to our next post as we delve into the progress of our teams!