Review of Festival
Name of Festival: Central Fest 2010
Date: 20th November 2010
Our festival this weekend gathered many people of various ages, from young children, to the elderly, despite them being notified quite poorly as our promotions weren’t as large scale as we wanted them to be etc. A range of outsiders were exposed to the inside of our school’s sixth form building CTC to have family fun and enjoy a day of friendly interaction. So this being said, I think that we securely and completely met our first aim, which was to bring people from outside our school, inside our school. It was a day to celebrate our school Central Foundation’s achievements, teachers and students. Many were happy to visit our secondary school again, some who even came to the previous Happiness days, and others were introduced to Central for the first time.
There were many stools, workshops and other feature rooms prepared, following the placement of where Sabrina and I situated them in the map when we created it, and handed it to them. Some of the workshops were make up/nails bar, face painting/balloon bar, art exhibition, film room, photography booth, rock band workshop, dance room, refreshments room, bouncy castle, archery stand and many more. Some of the stools included Idea Store, Gym Membership, Dell Apps, Youth Club Membership plus more. We identified that the audience that attended our festival more were little children and parents, so families with children in general as it was a day for fun for the family.
Make Up/Nail/Face Painting/Balloons Room
We discovered that this was the most popular attraction at our festival as we watched from the beginning of Central Fest at 11am to the end of it at 2pm, that people - especially young children and teenagers were lobbying into the room at full speed. The workshop was packed at all times, even when the artists were having breaks, the people waited for the artists to come back, and for their turn. This was a very pleasing result as we didn’t quite realise that it would bring that many people in. After each person was served, they all came out of the room satisfied and smiling, making other people jealous and running into the make up room too. I think if people paid for make up etc here, may be there wouldn’t be as many people there, but if it was at a low price I think they still would have made a lot of money.
Refreshments Room
We thought that the food room would capture quite a crowd and be one of the most appealing rooms, however I think that the amount of customers there were quite poor. We watched a lot of people walk in, look around, hear that it’s not free, and walk out to another workshop. This was very disappointing for us, but many of the people voiced there opinions to us too, and said that they were very displeased that the poster for Central Fest announced ‘Free Food’ in a big, bold, large sized font, yet the only type of food that was free was the popcorn in the Film Room, and the only other food that was there, which was cakes, was being sold, not given for free. Also I think the reason this food workshop was not as successful was that it didn’t have variety in foods, the only snack it had was cakes, pastries and some other sweet foods. Quite a few people complained that it wasn’t something that everyone would like, and cakes weren’t enough to meet their hunger, when they came here as a family thinking to spend the day there, and each lunch here too. In future if we were to plan a festival again like this, we would take this information into consideration, and use it to make our event better.
Film’s Room
