Talent show flyers
Performers sign up weeks before an audience buys a ticket, so this is really two flyers with two deadlines.
A talent show has a recruitment phase and a ticket phase, and they do not overlap. Acts need to sign up, rehearse and often audition, which happens four to eight weeks out. The audience decides in the final fortnight. A single flyer sent once will always be early for one and late for the other.
The performer flyer needs rules, and being specific here prevents the awkward conversations later. Time limit per act, whether backing tracks are allowed and in what format, what is not permitted, and the audition or sign-up deadline. A two-minute limit printed on a flyer is a rule everybody accepted in advance; a two-minute limit announced at the dress rehearsal is a fight.
The audience flyer is simple by comparison: date, time, doors, where, ticket price, and whether tickets are on the door or in advance. The one thing worth adding is a run time, because a family deciding whether to bring a six-year-old on a school night needs to know whether they are out for ninety minutes or three hours.
$125
Flat, for one flyer designed for your event. Print-ready PDF tested in black and white, an email version, and square and story sizes. One round of revisions, back in four days.
Where this flyer actually lands
Performer recruitment goes through school bags, form rooms, staff notices and the group chat. The audience push runs on the school newsletter, community noticeboards and local social pages in the final two weeks. Two different rhythms through two different channels.
What changes for this one
If it is one design, it splits into two blocks with two deadlines. The performer rules are set as a real list, not a paragraph. Bold, high-contrast, legible from a corridor. Ticket price and run time get equal weight on the audience version.
What it has to carry
- Sign-up or audition deadline, and how to enter
- Time limit per act and any content rules
- Whether backing tracks are allowed, and the format
- Show date, doors, start time and expected run time
- Ticket price and whether they are advance or on the door
- What the proceeds fund, if it is a fundraiser
The mistakes worth avoiding
- One flyer sent once, which is too late for performers and too early for the audience.
- No time limit printed, so the rule arrives at the dress rehearsal as a surprise.
- Leaving out the run time, which decides whether families with young children come.
- Not saying whether tickets are available on the door.
- No content guidance, which is how a school talent show ends up with a routine nobody vetted.
Questions people ask
Should we make two flyers?
Yes, or one design in two versions. The performer call goes out four to eight weeks ahead; the audience push in the final two.
What rules should be on the performer flyer?
Time limit, backing track format, content guidance, and the sign-up deadline. Printed rules are agreed rules; announced ones are arguments.
Do you design the programme too?
Yes. A running order programme is day-of event paper and can be built from the same design once the acts are confirmed.
Can you do a matching ticket?
Yes, printable tickets in a sheet layout so you can run them off locally and cut them.
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