Production: Poster & Social Media

Me and Sophie are ahead of Marketing, which includes doing the poster, social media sites and updating them, making sure the posters are distributed, and we are also ahead of making the program.
   We actually finished making the poster and our Facebook and Twitter page on 22.4.. We divided the tasks between us, Sophie was to create the social media sites, since she has a twitter page with a big following and I did the poster. I have done poster for multiple shows before, for example for our Shakespeare and Walks of Life shows, and also helped with the 1st years Layers shows poster as well as our last years final year shows poster for Dracula. We had multiple ideas for the poster and here are some of them:

• Portrait of Ui with a Hitler mustache, half of his face disappearing into the shadows
• Looked too much like Hitler, plus taking on the time we had to do the poster, we wanted something that resembled the 1930's sleek poster art style. 
• Art Deco style picture of the Chicago skyline, with sun setting/rising from behind the buildings.
• wasn't very popular with the class, a little bit boring as well.
• Arturo Ui in a hurricane with cauliflowers flying out of it
• good and funny idea, but taking inconsideration our style choice for the show, we didn't want it to be too comical
• Arturo Ui hugging a huge cauliflower representing the earth
• again, a little bit too comical idea for our show.

We ended up with one of my ideas. In our Twelfth Night show I had used two silhouettes of the twins to cut out their silhouettes to a old paper-pattern to show the storm at the sea. I wanted to use something similar, but with a sharp black background with a silhouette of a gangster smoking a cigar. The cutout would show cauliflower to connect to the show. It was a very simple and sleek idea, which we felt fit with the 1930's poster style. I first wanted to use this red cauliflower picture I found, but after discussing with everyone, I realized it did look like a tumor of sort, which was something we didn't really want. We wanted the audience to know it is cauliflower in the picture. We still need to change the Facebook page address on the poster, since after sending it to Andy we noticed that we put the address wrong. I have remade it and send it for Andy to reprint. 

   Here are the social media sites Sophie made for our show: 

• https://www.facebook.com/ArturoUiCCB
• @ArturoUiCCB

On the sites, we have shown some sneak peaks of the show to come, to keep the audience interested, but we are also planning to bring on some competitions, for example to win free tickets or free VIP tables. We could also post some interesting facts we find during our research or somethings about Brecht and the style of theatre we are doing so that the audience knows what to expects, but will still be interested enough to come to see the show.