Comedy Festival
Over the past month I’ve worked for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival handing out flyers. Standing outside Town Hall for three or four hours a night for a month exposed me to the best and worst of Melbourne’s population – the best being people who actually stopped to ask about the show you were promoting and the worst being people who just didn’t acknowledge that you’re a human person who exists.
Aside from the prime people watching experience, I started observing different reactions to the flyers I was handing out. Particularly one for a certain “Star Wars meets Shakespeare” show I was promoting, generally people just walk past you or take a flyer without looking, however with this certain one people would initially refuse then double take and walk back to get the flyer. People would recognise the iconic Star Wars logo and immediately gain interest. Although the show hardly resembles anything Star Wars related because of the branding on the advertisement people will still invest their time in it.