Trailer?

Hayley Quinn Cooper
Right guys, this is something that needs to be addressed, right now.

This bloody trailer thing.

I hate to burst everyones bubble but it won't happen next week, and tbh i don't think it should happen at all, and it's not "Oooo i can't be bothered." I went through the pros and cons, this is what i came up with...

Pros:
-We can send it to other schools to widen our audience
-We can play it in forms
-It could look really awesome and draw in crowds
-It could be funny and amusing and really effective
-It could make our panto more memorable

Cons:
-We can only do headshots
-We can't even do everyones headshots next week because i have only just ordered makeup this afternoon, meaning half the cast will be in makeup and half won't.
-If we are only doing from "Mirana." to "MAD HATTER!" It is going to only be 10 seconds long, and quite ineffective if we are trying to sell our panto, because it gives absolutely no information as to what our panto is even about, it just shows the characters, but if we go past "MAD HATTER!" All shots will still be above the neck and it will look like we don't know how to zoom out.
-If it is about 10-20 seconds long, it is really really not worth the time it will take to apply the makeup we don't own, and the hours it will take to edit (i heard a few people say it will take five minutes to edit, you people have clearly never had to edit anything... it will take a long time to get the timing swift and right.)
-The years that have gone before us have packed out every single night and they didn't have a trailer.-If it looks like cack, it will more likely drive people away that bring people in.
-Most people already understand the idea of a pantomime and the posters and broadcast takeover should give them an idea of what it's about.
-All of this is going to suck up what little rehearsal time we have left, and considering we are already so scarily far behind where we should be, i think we need all the time we can get.
-Did i mention i can't do any of your makeup?
-Did i mention that at all?
-You'll all have naked faces :P
-Just sayin'.

The posters i can do over this coming week, as soon as my makeup kit arrives, i will get on it like anything and stay up late doing some serious editing if i have to, but really, this can be spread out, but it's doable and will look good once i'm done with it.

But the video... it just feels as though we've wasted an entire week faffing about with it... and we have balls to show for it... i think the time would be far better spent rehearsing.

Please tell me someone feels the same way about this, because it's doing my head in so much... it seems like so much effort for so little a result that people will forget by the end of the day... I hate to be such a moany bitch but it's driving me up the wall that this has become such a big deal...
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April Rose Hill, Abbi Ellingworth and Katieann Bird like this.

Abbie Flitton i feel exactly the same as i said today! me and beckie were going to go at lunch to tell mr cooper its off anyway :) we need to prioritise what is going to happen on the night as we dont want to look like a bunch of students who have pulled off a shit performance and we had a great trailor?
so yeah i totally aggree with you hayley!
28 October 2011 at 19:05 · Like ·  2Hayley Quinn Cooper oh thank god someone agrees with me, i felt like i was going to have the whole class being like "WTF HAYLEY. SHUT UP NO ONE CARES."
28 October 2011 at 19:05 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper Such a relief, you have no idea xD ♥
28 October 2011 at 19:06 · Like

Abbie Flitton haha oh hayley!! do not worry, i think alot of other people agree!! your just the one to get it out in the open :D
28 October 2011 at 19:10 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper ahaha i feel so much better now that i have, it's been on mind all week xD i've been so stressed about panto i only slept for 3 hours last night xD talk about freaking out :p
28 October 2011 at 19:11 · Like

Abbie Flitton oh god!!! SLEEP WOMAN SLEEP!!!!!!!!
28 October 2011 at 19:12 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i plan to! XD
28 October 2011 at 19:12 · Like

Katieann Bird I said this last week! :')
I'm saying no to the trailer!
28 October 2011 at 19:14 via Mobile · Like ·  2

Hayley Quinn Cooper eugh thank fuck, no one listened to me when i said it in radders class and no one else seemed to be that against it, so i was worried the whole class still wanted it.
28 October 2011 at 19:16 · LikeAbbie Flitton i thought it was a good suggestion when we first said about it, but it think we all thought costume and our scenes where all going to be perfect we are meant to be doing a "pretend run" at the beginning of november!
28 October 2011 at 19:19 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper exactly xD we just have to rehearse, we should be off scripts now, although a lot of us are now, so that's great :D
28 October 2011 at 19:28 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth As am i, i really do agree with this hayley, we need to prioritise the actual panto rather than the trailer.. i preferred the james going to the head broadcast thing :') x
28 October 2011 at 19:30 via Mobile · Like

James Sampson im fine for this, but i wouldnt mind you guys asking me first, i feel like im getting walked over a bit. also hayley, how come youve orded the make up?
28 October 2011 at 21:42 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i ordered it because 1)we have shit all at school, and i have a very limited amount, 2)beth keeps going on at me to do these posters and can't without makeup 3)i haven't been given budget myself to order them and because of beth being on at me, i have to get it as soon as possible, and 4) we need makeup xD
28 October 2011 at 22:02 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper oh and i went to the market first, yes :P they didn't have what i needed
28 October 2011 at 22:02 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i checked every stall when i went to buy the fur for my outfit
28 October 2011 at 22:03 · LikeHayley Quinn Cooper they were either not enough colours, or the wrong sort :P cause they suckkkk
28 October 2011 at 22:03 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper and in regards to running it by you, although you are director, and make directorial decisions and shit, things like this ultimately fall down to the production roles, like for the trailer it would concern publicity, makeup and tech, because of filming and editing, so me, abbie, beckie and taz, but mainly abbie and beckie really, cause if it sucks ass it's on their heads because they put it out there. I get what you mean about you wanting to know about these things, which if it'll effect a massive lot on stage is fair enough. But just so long as you know that you may be playing one, but you're not really a queen ;) so don't feel personally offended if individual departments haven't let you know something straight away, don't worry, they will (: ♥
28 October 2011 at 22:07 · Like

Taz Maguire so...no trailer?
28 October 2011 at 23:52 · Like

I was gutted that we didn't do a trailer as they are a lot more convincing to get an audience to watch the show. This was based on the fact that when you perform a little segment of the panto is honestly looks rubbish.