On Tuesday we went to Mullingar Arts Center to take part in a Briery Gap Drama Competition. We have been preparing these dramas since the beginning of the year, our class was split into 4 different groups and each group wrote a script for their play and thought of a story. It took a few weeks to decide on a story and to write the script, after we decided we put people into characters, at the start I was one of the main characters but on the day we had to perform the play i was sick and couldn't come in so Aoife took my part in the play and I think it worked out for the better in the end, I became the director. We worked really hard on our play and put loads of effort into making it as good as we could, the time flew by and before we knew it the competition was here.
We came into school on Tuesday in our tracksuits and all the actors brought in their costumes and we got the bus from the school to Mullingar. When we got there we went downstairs to the dressing rooms and everyone started to do their makeup and get ready. When everyone was ready we followed them out to the stage and we talked to the sound guy and then we sta down and waited for the plays to start. We got to watch all the plays, when it came to our play I went up to the sound room with Amy and gave the man our cd with our sound on it and we told him what to do with the lights and sounds, when it was over everyone was really relieved because it went really well, the judge gave us feedback in the green room and then we went to McDonalds and got to watch the rest of the plays! It was a great day out!
Today was our mini company competition in school. Our mini company was Glow&Co and we sold homemade scented candles. When we came into school this morning first thing we had to do was bring our product to the hall and start setting up our stall. We set up putting a white tablecloth down with different designs and sizes of our candles. We put posters up and lit a few candles making it look as bright and eye catching as possible. We were really worried because our mini company didn't do too well this year because of different reasons so we weren't really sure what to say to the judges for our pitch so we were worried about that for most of the time. The first few groups that went had to pitch their idea in front of the whole year but then that was taking too long and nobody could here anyone so every group went individually to the library to talk to the judges about their mini company. When it came to our turn I didn't know what to say at the start but then it wasn't that bad and i think we actually enjoyed it!I really regret not putting more effort into our mini company because i think it could have done really well but because it took us so long to get our company up and running by the time we were ready the competition was just around the corner! I really enjoyed making and designing our candles though and I'm really happy that the day went well because we were all dreading it and we thought it would just be embarrassing! But it went well and we really enjoyed it.
