Transcript The School Musical - Music Education Expo 2016

Producing an Outstanding Product
Matt Yeoman
Director of Learning for the Visual and Performing Arts
Queen’s Park High School, Chester
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Learn how to share the importance of the school production with senior
leaders
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Hear best practice processes for casting, rehearsing and producing the
school production and consider how these could be adopted or adapted
for your own educational setting
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Learn how to use the production as an effective marketing tool, including
collaborative work with other education providers and professional
artists/organisations
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See a working financial model and consider how this could be adapted to
enable your productions to produce the 'wow' factor
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Discover opportunities for accreditation that exist and how these can
bring additional kudos to the role the production has within the school
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Queen’s Park High School
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Matt Yeoman
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Visual Arts College Legacy
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VPA
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School Community
Outcomes, outcomes, outcomes
 Finance
 Additional accreditation – boosting APS
 Marketing and Recruitment
 Community Standing
 Engaging Stakeholders – parents
 Improving A2L,Attendance and
Engagement
 Transfer of Skills to Curriculum
 Cross-Curricular Learning
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The Team
Picking the Right Show –
with rights!
The Audition Process
The Rehearsal Process
The Technical Process
Production Fortnight
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Marketing – the Programme
Marketing – Local Radio
Marketing – Twitter/FB/The Press
Educational Providers FE/HE
Costume and Props
The Entity Needs a Christening
PTA – Raffle and Refreshments
EXPERTISE!
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QPHS Budget for Productions
LX Hire
SX Hire
Plant and Props Hire
Choreographer
Programme Production
Set Construction Materials
Scaffold Hire
Wardrobe and Costume
Musician Hire
Picture Production
DVD Production
Performance Rights / Material Hire
Technician Hire
Miscellaneous
Contingency
TOTAL
1500
800
2200
400
134
1200
200
750
700
10
50
1200
650
1000
1000
11794
Tickets (4 Nights - 250 seats x £6.50) 80% Sell Out
Bag Packing (2 Weekends) £2000
Picture Sales (100 @£1)
Programme Sales (200 @ £2)
Programme Advertising
Marketing Budget
Drama Budget
Music Budget
DVD Sales (100 @ £5)
Christmas Concert
PTA Grant
Miscellaneous (Equipment Hire etc.)
TOTAL
Disadvantaged Students (PP)
Charitable Institutions
5200
2000
100
400
1000
250
200
200
500
650
1000
500
12000
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Arts Award
Arts Mark
Duke of Edinburgh
GCSE Music / GCSE Dance
BTEC Production Arts and Performing Arts
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Little Shop of Horrors
FEBRUARY 2016
Producing an Outstanding Product
Matt Yeoman
Director of Learning for the Visual and Performing Arts
Queen’s Park High School, Chester
[email protected]