First we registered at the Foyer and Bar area. here we created our name badges out of all sorts and we answered some questions about the day.
We then went on into the Quarry Theatre for the Welcome speech from a very funny and theatrical man called John. He set the context of the day very well.
We where then put into two school groups and had a backstage tour of the West Yorkshire play house. This was really interesting and exciting seeing what happened backstage and how the costumes were made, we visited the actual back of the stage and we saw everything that happened there. We also visited the space where they make the set, because the West Yorkshire playhouse is a producing theatre meaning they create everything, rehearse and do everything with marketing in the theatre. Unlike The Grand, this is a receiving theatre meaning they show touring producers shows.
Our first workshop was the special effects make-up, with Jules Greenan, this was really amazing how we could make bruises out of a few colours of make up. She told us how she makes the effects as real as possible, she researches the time period and how bruises are created and the process of them. I think it is really amazing how you can create such a amazing effect out of really simple colours. Jules has to teach every actor how to do there make-up so they can quickly do it themselves. This is what me and Tommy Wilshaw did on each other. It was really fun.
We then went onto the writing theatre workshop with Jodie Marshall ( playwright). She told us about how every play should have conflict and it has to be interesting . This was really fun because we had to improvise a argument for as long as possible, I wasn't very good at it though.
We then went onto the next workshop which was the Sound technician workshop. I was already really interested in the sound at the theatre but this made me even more exited.This was led by martin Pickersgill, head of sound. We first went up into the main sound booth with Mary and had a talk about what happens and what the job up there is to do this was really interesting but the amount of equipment was amazing. Then we looked at different types of music and how it effects our emotions, there were also fight scene music this made me laugh. Then finally we had a go at directing the sound and we made our own sounds like cows and market sellers, this was for the market scene in Aladdin. We looped them which sounded really good.
The next workshop was marketing the show with Joanna Loveday, the audience engagement officer. We spoke about how you can promote a show and how to get the press involved to get publicity, we created these massive spider diagrams about marketing and our ideas about it.
The final workshop was Scene painting with Barney George, designer for Aladdin in the west Yorkshire play house. first he showed us a down to scale model of what the stage will be like, it was Traverse so that the audience sit on either side of the stage. he then gave us two signs to decorate with either lamps or fruit in veg. I chose fruit and veg, I made a olive. It was green, but Barney ruined it by making it much better.
We then had a speed dating session this was really fun and interesting. We met lots of other jobs that I didn't even know existed. We asked them questions and it was so interesting.
But I still loved the job of Sound technician, because I love music and instruments and how you can make sounds.
Thank you Mrs Woffinden and Jess Farmer for organising this fantastic day.
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