Hello everyone! The weeks are going by so fast! The anticipation is high as our auditions for our drama production starts this week! Barely anyone from the team had any experience in acting in a drama so the auditions were certainly an interesting sight as we sat in through every one of them(the Documenters have to film each audition which a lot of the credit goes to Isabel being the only one with a good camera in the team LOL).
To watch a few funny moments in our auditions,
click on this link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUuUhFS0D0Y or visit our “Videos” page! The cast will be decided and finalised by Saras soon.
You guys will only be able to know our castings near the event day itself so stay tuned!
Other than auditions, our whole team was called by Saras to stay back to review our exceeding budget and confirm the program flow. With the original budget being too high(our eyeballs almost popped out!), every group in our committee had to re-look into our respective logistics, looking at areas where we can cut some cost.
Moving on, here are the updates from our 5 teams for this week. Read more below!!
As per usual,we are starting with our Documenters who, on 26 Nov, thought of starting a blog to better document our teams in action. However, due to their hectic schedules, they brushed the idea off and chose to stick with just posting up the vlogs instead.
After Saras called for the whole of team Clarity to look through the budget list and programme flow, the Documenters met with her to receive the comments from Clarity on our script. They met up with the Logistics team right after to clarify the logistics needed for the drama and started revamping the script based on Clarity’s comments till 7pm(They tried to add in parts for audience interaction but failed inevitably. It was a very long day *sigh*).
However, on a positive note, they uploaded their vlog for last week and ended it with a pun by zooming into a wrap and saying “It’s a wrap” haha(as you guys can see, the Documenters love their puns). Saras commented “Wrap it up - make it live” in response before they posted it.
On 29 Nov, Atika from Documenters created the logistics list for the logistics team and on 2 Dec, they wrote a synopsis for the drama sent it to the programs team to be printed on the program booklet.
Moving on, we have the Logistics team! This week, the team met up with the Documenters and highlighted some problems and doubts they had about the script as they had many practical considerations for the drama production as well as prompt them to send them the logistics needed for the drama ASAP. In addition, they met up to do some planning of the stage management with the available information they had of the drama storyline(as it was still not finalised as of yet).
Meanwhile, the Product Sponsorship team sent out their emails that they have drafted out last week to some vendors regarding the goodie bags(yay for free stuff!) for the event day. Although there were some difficulties in getting a reply from the various vendors, our Product and Sponsorship team worked hard to contact them such as giving the vendors a call directly for their reply. In the end, they managed to get a confirmation of the goodie bags by the end of the week. YAYYY! Make sure to come to our event to know what free stuff you can get with our goodie bags!
Hmm... Oh no! Seems like our Programme and Finance team have been experiencing some difficulties this week. Due to the tight budget that the event has, it was hard to anchor a venue and trying to get a venue in Nanyang Polytechnic itself is no easy task. They decided to outsource other venues by sending out emails to various organisations to check the availability and whether these organisations could provide our team the venue on a complimentary basis.
In addition to finding a venue, they submitted a short write-up of the static experiential booths to be included in the programme booklet which introduces what the event booths will be all about. Based on the input Saras gave them, they also refined their needs assessment. Subsequently, they collated back all the logistics and their prices at the end of the week after all the groups have reviewed and edited their logistics and prices, which reduced total cost needed for the event significantly.
Lastly, our Publicity team met up with Clarity for clarification of publicity and tried to finalise the publicity initiative and direction to take for the event. They also met up with the rest of the teams to showcase the various designs they has for the event t-shirt. They made a link for the whole committee to vote and collated the results. However, they found out that the t-shirt may be too expensive and decided to ask the the rest of the committee’s opinions which majority were fine with the price(it is a one time event after all, so most of us were okay with spending the extra money). Hence, through that, they were able to finalise the design of the event t-shirt.
This week has been full of ups and downs for team Clarity but we continue to persevere. We will be back next week for another post full of updates from our 5 teams. Till then, see ya!