Mad Ads!!

MAD ADS..the most-looked-forward event in almost all the colleges today. People smiling hard seeing the events like dance, songs, boring speeches and as soon as they hear " NEXT EVENT ON STAGE IS MAD-ADS".. the audience wake up from their sleep, people from every nook corner of the campus come rushing to see this event and suddenly the crowd is alive. Wow!! what an anticipation from the crowd. For this, as a mad-ads team, you should have great respect.

The audience would have had a hard time, screwing up their exams, ditched by their boyfriend or girlfriend, got punched by someone, frustration, anger, disappointment, stress make audience look forward this event. They would have forgotten how to smile, how to interact, and they have expectations that we make them remember all those..!! U're entrusted with tremendous responsibility to bring light into the lives of those to whom darkness is all pervasive!! Live up to it, to the anticipation and to the responsibility and never disappoint the audience

From my experience i'll explain to you people how a MAD ADS team should be formed. What are the basics you gottu to know and few important criteria!
First and foremost a mad ads team should comprise 7-8 people (max 8), 7 on stage and a narrator.

A PERFECT TEAM

You should be extremely careful while choosing a team. Just calling your close friends forming a group and telling "macha come ra....we'll form a mad-ads team" won't help you...!! Seriously!!

Your team should have an awesome narrator who can make weird sounds, have a good presence of mind, and the most important thing is he should be good at few languages..hmm to reach the local audience English, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi would do great..!! Even though he doesn't know these languages better take help from others and learn.

And now coming to other team members they should be mixture of specimens, like there should be a thin dude, a fat guy, a dwarf, The hilarious, a guy who makes weird expressions, a guy who can handle female roles and OTHER roles too.. :P ( I guess u understood), a serious guy, etc.

Choosing a team is like cooking a new dish with proper recipe, and if something goes wrong then your whole effort goes in vain!

THE SCRIPT

A good script is all that you need to show what you are actually made of! Make sure your ideas are simple because most of the times you get some complicated ideas and crowd never understands and finally its a FLOP and it really annoys you. So be careful while writing a script and first of all see to it that your team members actually like it and they laugh at it..lolz! Have a good sense of humor, get some unique ideas, even the worst pj's may be a hit, whatever you feel just put it across the team because some worst ideas may be developed by your other team members. Get the whacky ideas out off your butts or wherever you have hidden them! :P

Another important thing you should remember is about Plagiarism.  Never take a concept from another team. Try to be original as much as possible.  Getting caught for plagiarized script is the worst thing that can happen.  You could be booed by the audience.  You might lose your interest, enthusiasm, and what not.  I've been in this field for quite a while now, so my suggestion is be very careful.

FUN ON STAGE

The most important thing is just try to have fun on stage. Just think that you are performing mad-ads for a social cause. Don't expect the prize. Just go and stage and give your 100% and if the crowd really enjoys then it just feels like having a dessert at the end, i.e you're finally satisfied and have done a great job. Please don't do it for MONEY! You'll seriously end up having nothing in your hands but one "CHOMBU". If the audience enjoy your show..there u have it..trust me don't be in a dream of making money out of mad-ads!

HAVE PATIENCE

As far as my experience is concerned you gottu have a lot of patience. Just wait for the right time. You may have performed extremely well and audience may have responded to you to the extreme, but at the end you'll be disheartened sometimes when you don't win. At the times like this you should be careful enough that you just go and argue with judges. That may lead to chaos with other teams. Especially in mad-ads a lot of rivalry builds up, so have caution about that.

So I think i have given enough description about MAD ADS. So just come forward make a good team, have fun on stage. Any queries you can always ask me...:)

(If you need some basic concept ideas, please don't comment.  You can mail me directly.  My id is dileepkarpur@gmail.com )

Dileep Karpur
N.C. State
Graduate Student.

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THIS CONTENT IS PURELY ORIGINAL.  ANY KIND OF PLAGIARISM OF THIS MATERIAL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.