11-18-2006, 10:19 AM
Can I give few essential suggestions for any event organization?
Keep well in mind that:
1) Like or not, if you want to repeat the event every year and so improve it, you need of course of the money of public sponsores and that money will come on the next year only if the public will be totally satisfied (young and old ones). That means: "thrilled and enthusiast" public.
2) You can measure that level of satisfaction and the results you get, both: during the event but especially in the immediate after-event, where a lot of excited people hang about to talk with the reenacters to protract that enjoyable experience. If your event has been "fantastic", they will hesitate to leave.
3) Like or not, if you want to get such an event you have just a one-way: doing a "show" event with reenactment blended with "drama" in a highly emotional way (the preferred by the public), organized in a (almost) theatrical way. No chances to get it doing something of a boring visual lecture.
4) If you want the "thrilling way", study an about 1.30 h "show" (as "clou" moments of the days) on a detailed map of the site before, planning in detail the public placing trying to provide for all good points of view to follow the whole actions. Keeep the actions close (with safety) to the public.
5) Propose the map and the movements to do on it, to all the attending groups well before the event and by e-mail discuss any detail till to "perfection" and the complete approvation.
6) Once everything is decided and approved it will be clear what the groups will be expected to do, no excuses after it. Even because the groups will can do specific excercises about that in the previous months and attend the event well trained on the same basis.
7) Avoid like for the fire any dead moments in the 1.30 h of the show/event, public get bored immediately, so your program has to provide a constant rate of fire
8 ) Take care of the reenactors behaviour: pretend dignity and proud manners, any time! Public look always at you. No haw-haw, no silly jokes, no kidding. Just proud and serene attitude plus proud smiles... Especially during the actions. Nothing is worst to see than a "teacher away/class-room" guffawing atmosphere during a mock battle.
9) During the actions the best things is asking the reenacters for using a sort of "Stanislawsky method": they has to try to get into the real soldiers characters.
10) Before the start, let the public understand that something of cool is starting to happen: quick and perfect formations preparing, soldiers runnning in a menacing tinkling of armours to the units gatherings, running, not walking. No hanging about the girls of the public, or smoking cigarettes, or taking pics and so on.
11) Ask specifically the reenactors to keep always their heads up during the show/event. You can see at any event loads of reenactors looking always to the ground like searching mushrooms...
12) A good speaker is necessary: he must to be "hot" and contribute to keep alive the interest and cover any possible holes among the actions. Of course, he must know the matter he's speaking, so he has to be used to the roman army subject.
12) You all know that transforming the show/event in a farce is easy and horrible without attention.
Just my two aurei
Valete,
Keep well in mind that:
1) Like or not, if you want to repeat the event every year and so improve it, you need of course of the money of public sponsores and that money will come on the next year only if the public will be totally satisfied (young and old ones). That means: "thrilled and enthusiast" public.
2) You can measure that level of satisfaction and the results you get, both: during the event but especially in the immediate after-event, where a lot of excited people hang about to talk with the reenacters to protract that enjoyable experience. If your event has been "fantastic", they will hesitate to leave.
3) Like or not, if you want to get such an event you have just a one-way: doing a "show" event with reenactment blended with "drama" in a highly emotional way (the preferred by the public), organized in a (almost) theatrical way. No chances to get it doing something of a boring visual lecture.
4) If you want the "thrilling way", study an about 1.30 h "show" (as "clou" moments of the days) on a detailed map of the site before, planning in detail the public placing trying to provide for all good points of view to follow the whole actions. Keeep the actions close (with safety) to the public.
5) Propose the map and the movements to do on it, to all the attending groups well before the event and by e-mail discuss any detail till to "perfection" and the complete approvation.
6) Once everything is decided and approved it will be clear what the groups will be expected to do, no excuses after it. Even because the groups will can do specific excercises about that in the previous months and attend the event well trained on the same basis.
7) Avoid like for the fire any dead moments in the 1.30 h of the show/event, public get bored immediately, so your program has to provide a constant rate of fire
8 ) Take care of the reenactors behaviour: pretend dignity and proud manners, any time! Public look always at you. No haw-haw, no silly jokes, no kidding. Just proud and serene attitude plus proud smiles... Especially during the actions. Nothing is worst to see than a "teacher away/class-room" guffawing atmosphere during a mock battle.
9) During the actions the best things is asking the reenacters for using a sort of "Stanislawsky method": they has to try to get into the real soldiers characters.
10) Before the start, let the public understand that something of cool is starting to happen: quick and perfect formations preparing, soldiers runnning in a menacing tinkling of armours to the units gatherings, running, not walking. No hanging about the girls of the public, or smoking cigarettes, or taking pics and so on.
11) Ask specifically the reenactors to keep always their heads up during the show/event. You can see at any event loads of reenactors looking always to the ground like searching mushrooms...
12) A good speaker is necessary: he must to be "hot" and contribute to keep alive the interest and cover any possible holes among the actions. Of course, he must know the matter he's speaking, so he has to be used to the roman army subject.
12) You all know that transforming the show/event in a farce is easy and horrible without attention.
Just my two aurei
Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
