WEEK 4

For our weekly meeting this week we asked the teenagers Jack, Jack and Izzy not to attend as we wanted to discuss the judging format for the event. We discussed the idea of having at most 10 criteria that the judges need to follow when judging the contestants. This would make it fair for each contestant taking part as they would be critiqued on various topics rather than if they just thought it was good or not. We sat down as a team and came up with the judging criteria and how these different criteria would be judged for example on a scale of on to five.

We also discussed who we were looking for to take the roles of the judges. We have given the task to the police to try and get Jonathan Ross to be a judge for the talent show as they could be more influential than if we were to contact him through his agent. Jonathan Ross has a house local to the area and would attract a large audience to the event so it would be great to have him as a judge. However if this does not work out then we have discussed other celebrity options. We talked about getting in contact with Jonathan Ross’s wife who has jus released a new book who may be interested in being a judge, Another option would be June Brown who is also local to the area and plays Dot Cotton in Eastenders. We have a few options for a celebrity judge but we are still in the process of liasing with these people and confirming them as judges.

The other two member of the panel we would quite like to be a member of the council and then a member of the police as they are a big part of this project. This would also create more of a community aspect to the event as they are part of Swanage. From this meeting we went on to contact Ali Patrick who is a member of the council who gets involved with many community projects such as this one. She is still not as of yet confirmed as a judge but we are hoping she will accept the offer.

This week we also tried to focus on getting our flyers out to the children of Swanage. At our meeting we focused on brainstorming ideas of what ways we can do this. We discussed the fact that the posters and application forms are posted at each of the local schools but they are still not creating enough attention. We decided that the schools were definitely the place to push the event as this was the source of our target contestants so we came up with the plan to hit all the school buses with flyers posters and applications forms for the children at he end of the day. We got the police involved to create a bit more attention from the kids as they came along in their police cars and in uniform and explained about the event whilst Charlotte and I gave out posters. We managed to talk to a lot of the children and it seamed that there were a few interested in taking part. This was a trial run in the Purbeck Middle school so if we get interest from doing this we have discussed doing that same thing at the other schools as well.

Another task for this week was to set out the layout of the two days of the event. The event it over a two day period so we decided to split the contestants into two age categories. The winners of each of the two categories would be announced at the end of their day. Those aged between 8 and 13 would perform on the Saturday and those aged between 14 and 18 would perform on the Sunday. There would also be a space for each person to have a rehearsal on the Friday. Charlotte and I have also discussed the fact that we feel the children need a time to rehearse not only for them but also for the team to figure out the get ins and outs of their equipment needed. As the theatre is free on the Friday during the day we agreed with the manager that this could be used for the rehearsals.

We also suggested that the prize money of £250, £100 and £50 should be announced a various time throughout the show to create more initiative for the children to perform their piece. The prizes will also be given out to the winners at the end of each day via a small award ceremony and each category has the same prizes to make it fair.