On the day!

On the day, I was responsible for signing people in, which went a little haywire when those dressed as minions told people to come in disregarding the sign-in/ wristbands! Unfortunately we had to turn down a school and also several lone children, however we managed to squeeze in lots of people, as some who booked did not turn up. When it came inhabiting the minions, I was asked to take the door with miss. We then preceded to have complaints that it was too dark along with various other absurd complaints!

The kids enjoyed the activities and the film and I think they enjoyed our surprise dance at the end!
All together I think it went very well as the kids enjoyed it, which is the most important thing.

Inhabiting a Minion

Learning to inhabit a minion was exciting, I found that minions are kind of like mentally deficient children and u found getting into that mind state certainly helped me inhabit a minion. I was not present when we initially found that physicality and mental state, however I quickly picked it up.

I found that the minions were very suseptable, directional beings with, seemingly, no subconscious thought patterns that merely worked off carnal instinct. This carnality was very well reflected in the coin exercise where the minions are obsessing over this one object and will do anything to attain it. The directional and highly conscious behavioural traits were deeply reflected in the movement, with stopping pausing and then following their direction of choice. The lack of subconscious processes was equally reflected in the 'stuck' exercise.

Painting

During the time we spent in the workshop I managed to spray paint the eggs and paint a minion!

Workshop

During the time we spent in the workshop I managed to spray paint the eggs and paint a minion!

Blurb

The blurb that I wrote to be used was:

Welcome to the Community Cinema's screening of Despicable Me 2! Croydon's The BRIT School will be hosting a cinematic experience of epic proportions. Come and: see the film, meet the characters, try the food, move to the music, experiment in Gru's lab and so much more! If you're over 4, your welcome come with friends and just have fun.

Responsibilties

MANAGERS

1. Performance – Dom

2. Stalls- Shyanne

3. Games- Jackie

4. Publicity/marketing – Sian

5. Logistics/stage management of event- Kristen & Danny


2. STALLS:
1. Photo booth- Dom, Raeesah, Elizabeth

2. Cake decorating- Faye, Tyler (food/drink), Oisin

3. Face painting- Rebecca, Jonelle, Sian, Pelin, Enya

4. Minion balloon making- Jasmine, Ashleigh, Jackie


3. GAMES:

1. Jelly/gun fight- Zoe, Jonelle, Jordan Enya

2. Minion piñata- Rebecca, Jackie, Kristen

3. Spy training & chicken chase- Nikita, Zoe, Tara, Shyanne, Lizzie, Tyler


4. PUBLICITY AND MARKETING – BDC Students & some performers

1. Posters and flyers

2. Arrange promotional visits to local schools




5. LOGISTICS AND STAGE MANAGEMENT

1. Liase with box office, TTA, Site staff, Finance for running event in school and stalls and games manager for financing food, props, costume, tables etc

2. Legal stuff like distribution rights

3. Managing the timing of events, stalls, games, meet and greet and coming and going of audience on the day

4.

1. PERFORMANCE – Musical theatre and theatre students:
1. Beach

2. Salsa

3. YMCA

4. Summertime/jamming

5. Laboratory

Performance

For the performance work we did lots, we:
. Learned to walk like minions
. Learned (kinda) to Samba
. Learned so science experiments
. Learned the YMCA!