Third Day - Tara

On my third day at the picturehouse, I did a lot of various things as explained below, and worked 9 - 5, bringing my hours up to 24 for 3 days at the moment. I arrived at 9 ready for the meeting and so Alie Matt L, Tim, Matt H and I all sat down where Bill explained what he wanted us to do today.

The first task was to hand out some promotional leaflet about a film on today, called Losing Balance. As you can see from the picture, we also had to write out what the film was on the back of the each leaflet including a Q+A with the director afterwards, this took us about 20 minutes to write on all of the leaflets (there were a lot of them!). We then had to distribute them around town to various people in order to get them interested about the film and perhaps go and see it.

This took our group of 5 about an hour to distribute all the leaflets until we had finally given them all out. First we began in town near the market square where it was busiest, then we moved down to near Sainsburys near bridge street and managed to distribute them all - and people did seem quite interested overall.

Our next task was to cut out the 'Secret Spy' event leaflets and distribute these around town once again, we had roughly 100 leaflets distributed between five of us, and our main area was Anglia Ruskin University near the grafton centre, after this we then walked through the grafton centre and onto near the pathway which town and the grafton centre mix, with people coming in and out of both shopping areas. We found this part to be the most busiest and also managed to get rid of our leaflets which was a good sign as it meant people were interested.

After this Matt L, Tim and I cleaned the picturehouse in general, moving leaflets and cleanings the posts for the film festival delegates. After this we were then asked to move boxes containing new picturehouse brochures (out in october) to a storeroom with 28 september written on the boxes. We also added the october brochures to a few of the racks inside the picturehouse for people to pick up, and to promote the films too.

Me and Matt L also did about 20 to 30 minutes of ushering by the 3 cinema screens for the film 'The Butterfly Tattoo' which according to the amount of people seemed very popular. We also helped alex with a review he had to read out loud and create a podcast for. We also edited a 'Science on screen debate' to around 15 minutes from about half an hour, it was originally an hour long but Philippa had been editing this previously and had managed to cut it down quite a bit which helped.

Overall, my third day was a mix of things to do but I still found it fun, I started at 9 and left at 5 today.