LEB: Marketing and Production Management

Preparations for Last Eyes Blinded have continued a pace over the last couple of weeks. We have now officially signed our contract with Salisbury Playhouse and I’ve started working with our Technical Team to prepare that side of the production. We’ve been provided with a plan of the Salberg Studio lighting grid so that we can start drawing up precisely what we want in this respect.

We’ve also officially launched our marketing drive: see the posters and fliers on the Last Eyes Blinded Production Page and if you feel like it download and print them off if you have the unstoppable urge to put a few up for us! Additionally, I’m wandering round Salisbury on a regular basis convincing local businesses that they’d love to support us by putting up a poster or two, notably a display in Waterstone’s, and working with the lovely people in the Playhouse Marketing Department. As a result, we’ve actually even managed to sell a few tickets, thus beginning my traditional obsessive checking of ticket sales to ensure that we meet our targets and don’t lose lots of money.

Tomorrow I’m hoping to have our first Production Meeting where we make a few decisions without having to bore the actors to death with them! If there are any particularly interesting points I’ll let you know in my next post!

LEB: On the other side

Hi, thought it was about time you heard from me about what exactly it is that I’m doing for Last Eyes Blinded. Joz has mentioned a few of the things I’ve been up to, but I’ll let you know a few futher details.

I’ve just sent off the final versions of our marketing materials sent off to the lovely people at EcoPrint, you can find out more about them at ecoprintuk.com, sent an email to the also lovely people at the Salisbury Playhouse Marketing Department who’ve been a great help to us, and will shortly be popping down to Waterstone’s who have allowed us to put up a display in their store in the past but haven’t got back to us about this year. Additionally, this afternoon Joz and I are going to pop to see the Studio Technician, Dave, at the Playhouse to talk about practicalities.

By the end of this week, we hope to have produced our basic lighting design and final schedules for the production week, to make sure that we can have Dave when we need him: that is for the Technical and Dress Rehearsals and most importantly the Performances, as well as finding time to get the lights up, the stage set and so on. We also need to talk to him about whether he needs a second operator in the box or would rather do it alone to prevent overcrowding!

Well, that’s about it. Sorry my posts aren’t as long and interesting as Joz’s, but I expect them to get longer as we get closer to the performances. This week should have quite a bit of admin stuff happening while rehearsals take a short break.

Jake