The joys of the internet, the envelopes and the OFS
Oh happy day! Another internet boff (Kane) is in our midst! What genius is this? 5000 flyers and 200 posters for less than 200 squid. Is this too good to be true? NO! I have had a perusal of the website www.fatflyers.com and it all seems to be in order cap'n. What do you have to say on the matter, Leigh? It really does seem bargainous! I am inclined to go ahead. We have had the go-ahead from Kerry, as long as we change the name of the theatre from The Old Fire Station Studio Theatre to OFS Studio (??!), so nearly at the stage (good pun, Saz) where we can send off the file. Phew!
On a different note, envelopes! I received an email from Carly saying that we could definitely go ahead with providing the envelopes for the OUDS mailout but that we'd have to buy them and have them printed ourselves. So I am going to set about costing this out, but if we use fatflyers, we'll have so much spare money that the cast party will be like the finale of the Crystal Maze all over again. How I used to love Richard O'Brien and his shiny head. What details do we reckon on the envelopes? I think an arty ABSOLUTELY! {perhaps}, OFS Studio, 7:30 and 2:30 Saturday matinee. As Kim rightfully pointed out, we don't need the dates as the mailout goes at the start of the week with all that week's productions, so it'd be a waste of print. I really think we should go for this, anyway. We need to let Carly know by the beginning of 0th.
Next thing. Still haven't heard from Thirst with an application for our party. Grrr. I will pester them over the telephone this evening. We need to exploit the EAS mailing lists to get invites out. Oooh yes. Those readers who received a joyful marketing schedule this morning in my frenzy of emailing excitement (apologies) might have noticed something about flyers and stickers. Well, to get round the whole problem of not being able to randomly flyer college post rooms, we will do as Graceland did before us and buy sticky envelope labels, then stick them onto flyers, write on the names of friends and the details of the launch party, in a double whammy, killing two birds sort of thing. They won't be able to resist. So my shopping list is now: 1650 brown envelopes, a few hundred sticky labels and the cost of printing on said envelopes... oh, and a launch party at Thirst, which incidentally is free and should accommodate 170 people. If anyone has any ideas about anything that we should take along to the launch, aside from a ridiculous number of posters and flyers, please let me know.
I now need to take my little brother to tennis and learn about differentiation, so shall love and leave you.
posted by Trapdoor Productions @ 1:56 PM
7 Comments:
God bless the internet! If we can save that much on print, I'll be a very happy bunny. In fact, Sarah, most all of your efforts recently have caused me to use the phrase 'very happy bunny' more and more :)
RE: envelopes... I agree that it shouldn't be too cluttered but my preference would be Absolutely (perhaps), OFS and numbers/website addresses for booking tickets. Yay? Nay? Also, must the envelopes be brown? Ugh. I suppose it does coordinate with sepia though. I suppose colour printing of the words would be extortionate wouldn't it?
oops, forgot to mention... perhaps we should take some munchies to the launch party? Sweeties a la the pub crawls? Something a bit classier since we're staying in one place? Like nuts in bowls. Classy. Food for thought (sorry...) anyhow.
okey dokey, so Ab Perhaps, OFS, ticketmaster addy, blog addy (???) and phone number. Sounds good. I've looked at envelopes. Did Some voices have brown? Brown will be about 35 quid or so, minus printing costs. I think coloured writing would be a bit OTT but I suppose we could push out the proverbial boat and have WHITE envelopes with black writing... ooohh.... As to food. Hmmm. Will think on it. But I was going to say. After experience of Graceland pub crawl, I think sweeties are a pointless expense. Balloons and sandwich boards, however.... We had loads of sweets left over, and people were generally just keen to see what we were doing. And any thanks for fatflyers should be made to Kane.
for cyrano de bergerac(wherein i started this whole envelope trend)I had A4 white envelopes run through a laser printer and then photo copier to put the rose logo and name/date. before cyrano we there was rosencrantz and guildernstern, who had 2colour stickers printed and put them on envelopes. White or Brown matters little as it's only really economical to print on in black.
A4 you say?
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