The above images were taken in the preparation stage for FoH. We painted the card red for the posters and painted over in black paint. As for the Box Office and Entrance signs, we cut out black card to the size of the signs above the doors in the foyer. In order to do this we had to use a jigsaw to make the card more narrow and add extra pieces to each side. We tried using a guillotine but the card was too thick. Then we printed out the letters at a size of a sheet of A4 paper. If we had more time I would have marked out to scale where they would be stuck down in order to make them more accurate.
The above images were our first ideas of the images/ posters we wanted. However as we could not get them developed professionally, we had to make them ourselves. We were able to print the logo off on a landscape piece of A3 paper in college.
We cut out the centre of the letters using a knife.
These were the original centrepieces for the table. However more professional flags were ordered in time for the evening performance.
On the night, we took down the Reception letters /advertisements and replaced them with
Footloose programmes. The reserved ticket sheet helped us keep control of the tickets reserved by the performers. We knew what name they would be under and how many there were and whether they had been payed for ot not.
I made the above poster to promote the Priestley Prods/Performing arts twitter accounts and we also started a # - PriestleyFOOTLOOSE. This was important as FoH Manager because it allowed us to advertise a little bit and get our name out there through the use of social media. The tickets were made specially so we could rip a section off and this is how we knew it was valid and had been checked. We collected them to count how many people were in the theatre. However we also used a clicker because it was a quicker way to count.
To add to the Box Office theme, we changed the television screen to the Footloose logo.
This is an image of the float where we kept the money - it was organised because each of the quantities/coins could be coordinated and kept seperate. We also made drink signs so audience members knew the prices of the drinks they were purchasing. Programmes were £1 each but with a drink it was £2. We sold tokens for drinks, the blue were for alcoholic and pink were soft drinks. We brought down the price of the soft drinks to 50p because they were small cups and we felt that £1 was unreasonable. The alcoholic beverages were small bottles of beer. Soft drinks sold were fizzy drinks, e.g. cola, lemonade and cloudy lemonade, water and blackcurrent/orange cordial. Coordinating refreshments was important for me as FoH Manager because people expected refreshments at the interval. It was a requirement because we knew it would be extremely warm in the theatre, warmer still with 105 people in a small space - so providing cold drinks was definitely necessary.
When the box office opened, we counted the cash in the float. We then counted again before the interval and again after the interval. We made sure we wrote down what time we filled the sheet in and the quantity / amount of money we had made in total. We counted twice / 3 times to ensure we had the correct amount. This was important because it allowed us to keep on top of the money we were making and lowered the risk of a mistake being made on the financial side.
Here, Jordan and I are dealing with customers, filling in the first float chart, checking tickets and selling programmes / drink tokens.
This is the wall on which the posters hung. We also had a podium outside the door of the entrance where Jordan ripped the tickets upon the audience's entrance into the theatre.Above are the Front of House pre-show checklists that I put together. We used them as a guideline to ensure we did not miss anything whilst we set up the Box Office. As you can see there was one for each of us for each night of the performances. This was necessary because it ensured FoH had been set up as we intended it and nothing was forgotten about.
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