Off- Stage Choices
On Friday the 15th of October me and the creative and media diploma group were invited to the W.Y play house in Leeds for the Off-stage choices workshop.
First we registered at the reception/ Bar area, we then went on into the Quarry Theatre for the Welcome speech.

We where then put into two school groups and had a backstage tour of the W.Y play house. This was really exiting to see what happened backstage and how the costumes were made. 


Our first workshop was the make-up bit, with Jules Greenan, this was really amazing how we could make bruises out of a few colours of make up.  It was really fun.
We then went onto the writing theatre workshop with Jodie Marshall, she does playwriting. This was really fun because we had to improvise a argument for as long as we could, I did it with Imogen Hey who is also in the diploma group.


We then went onto the next workshop which was the Sound technician bit. This was led by martin Pickersgill, head of sound. We first went up into the main sound booth and had a talk about what happens up there, what the job up there is to do. Then finally we had a go at directing the sound and we made our own sounds and looped them which then sounded like Kirkstall market.


The next workshop was marketing the show with Joanna Loveday. We spoke about how you an promote a show and how to get the press involved to get publicity, we split into groups of two I went with Seb Answoth. the groups were different sets of marketing. 


The final workshop was Scene painting with Barney George, designer for Aladdin in the w.Y play house. first he showed us a down to scale model of what the stage will be like for Aladdin, 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 made an apple for the fruit sign.