Most schools will follow a script to produce their Christmas productions. Here is the guide for positioning, lighting and sound to help your production look and sound great and be easier for the audience to follow.
1) Keep things simple for the kids to remember the order, the audience and cameraman to follow., don’t have kids popping up from random positions with their line to say. When a scene or multiple scenes have a number of kids with one or two liners place they in a row or logical order for their lines. It looks a lot better for the audience if they can easily follow the pattern of who is speaking next and is easier for the cameraman to film.
2) If you are going to use more than one stage area only use them together when absolutely necessary or for group songs. Many schools now have 2 stages at the opposite end of the hall with action going on at the same time. Whilst this is easy enough for us to film with multiple cameras the audience cannot easily follow this.
3) Are you going to have narrators or main speaking parts? Think about the use and positioning of those narrators and inform your cameraman of their positions and if they are going to speak at certain parts or throughout. Also is acting happening at the same time? If camera operators know this, they can bring additional cameras to film the narrating positioning enabling them to concentrate on the action with their main camera.
4) Everyone who appears on stage needs to be seen, stage lighting works well but only if it covers the entire of the stage. Often the area of the stage used is wider than the coverage of the stage lights. So adapt the lights if possible, or reposition people on stage to make sure everyone can be seen. If neither of these solutions are possible you can turn on some or all of the house lights to help, or bring in a couple of extra lights to help with dark areas.
5) Reliable mic systems have never been so affordable and would be a great investment for all your school productions. Now how you mic up your productions will depend on the ages of the children. For younger years having children walk up to mics at the from of the stage on stands is by far the best approach. For older children headsets for the main cast can be used then muted for full stage singing. Sound can seem complicated, however is well worth the planning and thought. You could decide to bring in a sound engineer (with their own kit) for the production, to enable everyone to be heard with minimal fuss.
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