Post by Melanie Rashbrooke on Jan 14, 2009 12:14:22 GMT
Issue number: 025
Issue: How do cross artform designers meet collaborators ( without using facebook and myspace shite)?
Convener(s): Shanti Freed
Participants: Katherine Warman
Pia Futado
Michelle Reader
Anna Morrissey
Stuart Targett
Shanti Freed
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:
- Designers are stuck in a room/ studio, and have to be asked by directors… how do we make ourselves visible ie be proactive instead of passive?
- It’s about who you know, you need to talk to people however lovely your Facebook profile is.
- Designers are starting to initiate work themselves, because they’re fed up with waiting to be asked ( see above note re directors).
- Should we write to theatre directors? Write to them at the theatre they’re working at, more likely to get to them directly.
- Devising from design up- how to find/contact appropriate companies or directors with the same working method, vision, approach.
- It can be disappointing when you meet a director, feel you have a rapport, then they work with someone they know after all.
- From a director’s point of view (Pia), if the design comes first it dictates what happens kinesthetically.
- Life gets in the way, you may not have worked for a while, you need to re-establish yourself.
- Suggested setting up a dating agency for directors and designers. Identified some things which already exist. Young Vic- Genesis network, and Stage Jobs Pro, and event run by Stellar Network – Lone Sharks and Satellites.
- Discussed different ways to get across your visions/expressions/personality & work in process, other than using a portfolio, i.e. 3x postcards art therapy exercise
- Mentors – some designers find them very useful and some need to know how to find them.
- Notes. Michelle and Shanti
Issue: How do cross artform designers meet collaborators ( without using facebook and myspace shite)?
Convener(s): Shanti Freed
Participants: Katherine Warman
Pia Futado
Michelle Reader
Anna Morrissey
Stuart Targett
Shanti Freed
Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:
- Designers are stuck in a room/ studio, and have to be asked by directors… how do we make ourselves visible ie be proactive instead of passive?
- It’s about who you know, you need to talk to people however lovely your Facebook profile is.
- Designers are starting to initiate work themselves, because they’re fed up with waiting to be asked ( see above note re directors).
- Should we write to theatre directors? Write to them at the theatre they’re working at, more likely to get to them directly.
- Devising from design up- how to find/contact appropriate companies or directors with the same working method, vision, approach.
- It can be disappointing when you meet a director, feel you have a rapport, then they work with someone they know after all.
- From a director’s point of view (Pia), if the design comes first it dictates what happens kinesthetically.
- Life gets in the way, you may not have worked for a while, you need to re-establish yourself.
- Suggested setting up a dating agency for directors and designers. Identified some things which already exist. Young Vic- Genesis network, and Stage Jobs Pro, and event run by Stellar Network – Lone Sharks and Satellites.
- Discussed different ways to get across your visions/expressions/personality & work in process, other than using a portfolio, i.e. 3x postcards art therapy exercise
- Mentors – some designers find them very useful and some need to know how to find them.
- Notes. Michelle and Shanti