The Oscars

Our newest show brings a touch of Hollywood to your community. Raise vital fund for your club or charity while producing cinema quality movies involving everyone in your community. 

If your club or school want to raise significant funds, please talk to us about our completely NO RISK concepts.

The Details

Make up to €130,000 or more for your organisation!
GO FOR GOLD – BE A SILVER SCREEN STAR FOR THE NIGHT AND YOU ARE INVITED! Ireland’s shiniest new fundraiser is here.

WHAT IS THE SHOW?
‘The Oscar’s or alternatively ‘A Night in Hollywood’ is one of Ireland’s most exciting fundraising spectacular. Make up to €130,000 or more for your club, organization or school for an affordable price with a professional, passionate and efficient team!  The magic of it all, not having to do a single thing on the night!This fundraiser can have up to 100 people involved rehearsing over a five-week period with experienced Director/Coach’swhere at the end of it all a twelve minute abridged version of a famous movie will be shot alongside a professional film crew. On the main night itself, all seven movies will be premiered on a state of the art LED video screen where cast and crew will be encouraged to turn up dressed to the nines like Hollywood stars, watch themselves on the big screen and at the end of it all there will be an awards ceremony where the best of the night will be awarded Oscars. The magic about this fundraiser is the volume of people you can have involved.

WHAT WE DO:
  • Audition the participants 
  • Rehearsals and coaching over a five week period in your town
  • Two weekends of shooting the movies with a film crew
  • Run & organise the main night, ensuring a night to remember 
  • MC the event 

WHAT WE PROVIDE:
  • The film crew/Director’s
  • Stage, LED video Wall screen (6 meters x 2.5 meters), lighting, sound and more (the entire package)
  • On the night personalised state of the art screen graphics 
  • Event photographer and video crew to document the night 
  • Personalised social media imagery, poster design, event logo, ticket design and roadside signage as well as the printing

WHAT WE ADDITIONALLY PROVIDE IF NEEDED:
Props for Launch and Night of show

WHAT MOVIES WE DO:
The following movies are a selection of Movie Examples
  • Forrest Gump
  • The Snapper
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Father Ted
  • A Few Good Men
  • The Field 
  • Bridesmaids 
  • Sister Act
  • Derry Girls
  • Waking Ned

We are currently working on brand new scripts for new movies including Mrs Doubtfire, Mamma Mia, The Shawshank Redemption, The Commitments, Misery, The Silence of the Lambs and many more. Speak to us if you would like a certain movie to be featured, we can accommodate any needs you may have. 

COSTUMES, PROPS, LOCATIONS:
As well as rehearsing and starring alongside each other, each movie team will be given the task by their coaches to source out the locations for their movie as well as props and costumes which are very important to ensuring a high quality finished movie. This is where the competition amongst each team really begins! Attention to detail is key and will not go unnoticed when it comes to the big moment, the awards ceremony on the night. These duties are normally monitored and supported by the movies team leader. Think outside the box with this, you’d be amazed by what you can achieve in your town. Shane & John will be on hand also to advise on locations, costumes and props. At the first rehearsal, each movie team will be given a broken down, detailed list on all the locations they will need for their movie as well as the costumes and props.
REHEARSAL PROCESS:
  • An audition/Information evening will be the first thing to happen where the two director/coaches (Shane & John) will hand out a short monologue to the budding stars to be read by participants invited by you in a relaxed and encouraging  ‘audition’ environment. The monologue will be emailed ahead of the audition evening so participants can practice. After this, John & Shane will decide which movies would suit your organisation best and cast each participant in their respective acting roles and movies. Not everybody will get a lead role but we will accommodate everybody in a role. Supporting actors are just as important as lead actors; there is even awards for this on the night. Once the movies are cast, we will then inform you of our decision. 
  • There are a few different options to announce who will feature in which movie. A launch night is a great idea where you can invite all participants along with their friends and family to start building some momentum for the night and that’s where you will announce who is in what movie. This is also a good idea for some team building and cast bonding. Other ways we have seen cast announcements done are on Facebook or at the first rehearsal. 
  • Rehearsals will take place over a five week period once a week before the filming date. Rehearsal venues should be organized by your committee. Two separate venues will be needed, one for Director number one Shane and the other for Director number two John. Shane & John will direct three movies each and work on one together as well as coaching and directing the actors in rehearsals. More than anything, this concept is fantastic for confidence building. 
  • Each weekly movie rehearsal will be allocated a 45/60 minute slot’s 
  • We find each movie having a WhatsApp group is the best mode of communication. 

TEAM LEADERS:
What we have found very effective is each movie having a team leader. Somebody appointed by you who will deal with all questions and offer support to their cast. We would advise appointing somebody who is organized, efficient and competitive.  The best team leader also wins an award on the night for ‘Best Producer’. A WhatsApp group should be set up by each team leader as soon as each movie and their casts is announced to keep everybody in the loop regarding rehearsals, props, costumes, locations and fundraising.

FUNDRAISING/SPONSORSHIP – HOW TO MAKE THE MONEY:
Ticket Sales - once you have your Acts in place this predominantly sells out the show, most participants will sell an average of 15 tickets each. (Average show attendance 800 persons)

Sponsorship - We propose that each group is set a target of a minimum of €2,500 to collect in sponsorship (via mini Fundraisers in advance of the show). This stream generates most income if coordinated properly.(We have many ideas that have been successful for other clubs to share)

Brochure - This is quiet a strong revenue stream whereby the pages of adverts are sold to local businesses, most businesses like to be associated with local fundraisers.( samples available)
 
Lucky Dip Raffle - Again another opportunity to raise over €5000 on the night. 
Voting on the night
Major event sponsor - Some clubs/charities are fortunate enough to secure a large local sponsor of the event in exchange for prominent advertising and associations throughout the build up to the show; this can also be broken down in to two or three different packages, (Gold, Silver, Bronze sponsorship packages).
PROMOTING THE NIGHT, PUBLICITY MATERIAL: We will provide you with all promotional material design including your poster design, social media imagery (Facebook profile photo, cover photo, event photo etc) in the correction dimensions and resolution. We will print everything for you, the posters, road signage, tickets etc. The only thing we do not design or print is the programme booklet..