Private funding can be unreliable as its run
usually by a family or person with a lot of money that they use to help fund
different educational and artistic projects, and their funding application is
based on how passionately the applicant is about the project rather than
looking specifically and at the projects actual income. Also a private funder
will look for applicants who will provide in interesting story from the press
to gain publicity. They can sometimes give very large awards, others are
strictly for small local projects. They are more willing to source of start-up
or experimental funds and also they can be much more flexible in responding to
unique needs and circumstances. They can often provide alternative forms of
assistance, i.e., software/hardware donations, materials, expertise, etc. They
can generally be much more informal and willing to help with the proposal
process. But in general there are alot less
applications send to private funders than there are to public funders.
Public funding can be much more
bureaucratic and they focus on functions usually impacting significant
groups in society. They have the most money and more likely to award large
grants/contracts. They are more likely to pay all project cost and/or cover indirect costs. They make is easier to find information about and to stay
current on project needs/interests. Also application processes and deadlines are public information and very firm.
So in the instance of the Miskin
Theatre we would look public funding due to it being an educational establishment,
but if all else fails then we’d move to finding a private funder, even though
they are historically harder to obtain.
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I researched into the effectiveness of using various publications that advertise job opportunities. Firstly I looked at stage jobs pro, which allows users to both create a detailed profile about themselves including a CV and allows them to write down all work experiences and educational gains, but also allows employers to adveritse jobs for theatre professionals that members of the website can apply for online throught their profile.
As a lighting technician I researched different work oppotunities and career path including theatre, touring, and TV and realised that alot of the job adverts are very specific and include a variety of roles within the job description. For example I came across two adverts that i was interested in, one being for a touring stage electrician and one being for a sound and lighting assistant. Even though both job descriptions mention lighting they both include seperate responsibilities including the the touring stage electrician has to work with AV and the other job description involves sound aswell as lighting.
After research into this website I make the conclusion that being a technician having skills in all aspects of the theatre and being adaptable is more likely to find a job suited to them rather than someone looking for a specific job (such as a lighting programmer) due to alot of jobs (especially in the touring industry) having interrelating roles, maybe due to budget or other cost related problems which don’t allow companys to hire more than one person for a department i.e. sound and lighting.
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150 audience member per night
7 shows
= 1050 audience members in total
£10 per ticket (x 1050)
= £10500
100% of budget - £10500
90%- £9450
80%- £8400
70%- £7350
60%- £6300
Budget Requirements:
Set Design—–£400
Construction—–£900
Lighting—–£700
Sound inc batteries—-N/A
AV—N/A
Props—–£800
Special effects—-N/A
Costume—–£3000
Music—–N/A
Contingency/Misc %5—- £500
Total = £6300
As Grimms tales is a show being performed at a college, I realised that staffing costs are not applicable due to the student playing roles as “CSM” ‘DSM” and “ASM” for educational reasons and are being funded by the college rather than being paid a working wage.
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Blood Wedding- Traditional clothes and Wedding dresses
22/04/15
Today we learnt about perspective aswell well as how to draw with one point and two point perspective. We also learnt how to draw people, and we started on a project of drawing the set from west side story. For this I used a HB pencil as this is a good pencil for drawing fine lines as well as shading This is also good for drawing things to scale or perspective as there will be a lot of working lines involved.
