2nd Responsive meeting.- Royal Opera house.

Session time - 2 half hrs.

We started off the meeting lost as to what we where doing as last session we had come up with a tone of ideas and we had no solid plan.We also both had thoughts over the week that certain ideas where not going to work, for example creating merchandise , Beth made a good point that it is suppose to be an advertising campaign and so people who have never been to the Ballet before might not want bags with the Royal Opera House on.  And I also said that we might not be able to actually sell products with the logo as it is breaching copyright and we don't have the Opera Houses permission to do this. So we decided to scrap that idea.

   We decided to start off with making the survey and coming up with the questions. W also has a look at other people serves and it seems like we where asking similar questions. So when thinking about the questions we considered some of the research we had done so far. In last session we where looking into Northern Ballet and found that they had a productions of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas coming soon. This was interesting because you rarely see more modern and adaptation of Ballet , it is normally productions like Swan Lake and the Nutcracker. From this we found a load of productions that had been done by Northern Ballet which seems very contemporary and unexpected. Beth was keen that this could be a potential idea for a concept , the unexpected. This then formed one of our main questions in the survey , where we listed all ballets with traditional and new. We want to see how many people got that where not obvious choices and weather this then changed the perception on Ballet. 

After making the survey we had a think about which companies we wanted to contact. Northern Ballet , The Grand, Charity .When thinking about theatres in Leeds I pointed out that they are not that obvious. They are hidden away for example the city verities in the city centre is tucked down an ally way , not it a grand old red brick building. The Grand as well hidden up a street just out of the central shopping areas. This made me think that it would be a good idea to contact The Grand.

Beth brought another brought up another concern about involving a charity. How would they be useful to the brief and how could they be used as a tool for promoting Ballet. This was when I had the idea of getting in contact with The Grand and seeing if it could be possible to get some tickets for there latest Ballet coming soon Casanova and auctioning them off, and the money then goes to the charity.  But actually looking back at this idea we will need to go back and address this further.

We where also wanted to contact Northern Ballet and we both knew another group small that had the same idea. So we ask Elliot and his group if he wanted to group up with us and we gone as a group of 5 down to Northern Ballet to talk to them. Elliot said that he had emailed them a while ago and no reply , so Beth said she would try and ring them on Monday, if still nothing then we will write them a letter asking. 

We also made the deciton of what Beth and me should aim to do as a minimum:

• Bus Stop - interactive bus stop ( using the snap chat filter).
• Snapchat filter.
• Screens in town.
• And the posters.

So we came away from this session having made substantial progress , next time we are going to review the date that has come back from the survey that we both created and Beth set up. We have also decided that given the constraints of the deadline we are going to try and meet twice weekly. So fro next session I am going to create a mood board of poster that we have found that we like the look of , and I am going to start on visuals.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxLMKrdSwehh1Or63w9eLmiGhGNhPOgylM0uaGZVmVPgqYig/viewform. - survey Link.