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WS Edinburgh2. Pan from Royal Mile sign to Royal Mile3. VSs performing artists on Royal Mile4. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Page, Press and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eJim Henson = No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment material - 8th August 2006\u003cbr/\u003e1. WS Edinburgh\u003cbr/\u003e2. Pan from Royal Mile sign to Royal Mile\u003cbr/\u003e3. VSs performing artists on Royal Mile\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Page, Press and Marketing Manager, Edinburgh Fringe Festival:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well it is a massive event as you know. There is about 1867 shows this year, there is about 28,000 performances of those 1867 shows, so it is a huge event on a massive scale and there are performers and people coming from all over the world to see this festival from as far away as Australia, Japan, China, South America, all over the place.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Robertson, Deputy Editor, The List magazine \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think people find it is a platform where they can come and hopefully be noticed, I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds of shows on but if your show is good you get a bit of exposure, you get a good review, there is a good chance you are going to get somewhere.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Performance excerpt 'Gamarjobat'\u003cbr/\u003e7. Performance excerpt 'What I Heard About Iraq'\u003cbr/\u003e8. Performance excerpt 'Dreamers'\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Page, Press and Marketing Manager, Edinburgh Fringe Festival:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are loads of different reasons why people come to the festival, it's obviously just a fantastic occasion, it really takes over the whole town of Edinburgh, it is really a very exciting place to be but then also there are loads of people here that come, especially the performers that come here for career development purposes, there are lots and lots of talent scouts here in Edinburgh in the month of August, here to spot new talent.\" \u003cbr/\u003e10. VSs people handing out flyers\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Page, Press and Marketing Manager, Edinburgh Fringe Festival:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it just gets crazier every year. People come up with ridiculous stunts, we've got somebody doing Filipino knife fighting to try and attract people to their shows, we've got people that hand out loads of crazy freebees with their flyers, whether it is flyers printed on chocolate, or tea bags attached to flyers, or whether it is just crazy persuasion, people dressed up in ridiculous costumes and just all kind of crazy stuff they do to try and get people to see their shows.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various shots of people canvassing to camera\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop:  - on how difficult it is to get people to see shows:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is what I suggest when you flyer, you need to grab attention from people. So I suggest you take off all your clothes, what this, you might want to close your eyes. Ok, watch this: Excuse me, look how great this show is. See how I grabbed his attention with my pecs.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14.  MS girl selling shows with sweets\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We find that if you tempt people with some sweets and while they are distracted by the sugary goodness you can give them spiel about your play and get them excited because they are already there and it is a good way of grabbing people because obviously as people walk past they are getting flyers trust at them left, right and centre, so you need something to make you stand out and make them stop and acknowledge and notice you and your play.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. MS Abie (Jesus in Guantanamo flyering)\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Abie:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I decided it would be quite clever to put a sudoku puzzle on the flyers, because people get millions of them and they just chuck them away but I thought if I put that on them they will start filling them in and there is always that point in sudoku where you get frustrated and go ++WARNING EXTREME LANGUAGE++'fuck this,' and you turn in round and you start reading it and you go 'oh, that is interesting,' so I thought that would be the thing to do. Someone said to me afterwards \"if you were really clever you would have said 'solution given out during show,' but I didn't think of that in time so that is not on the flyers.\"\u003cbr/\u003eJim Henson Productions material\u003cbr/\u003e18. Excerpt 'Puppet Improv'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Entertainment material - 8th August 2006 ++From left, Boggly Eyed Man, right, Goat++\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Puppets from Puppets Improv:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The puppets have been seen in weird, odd places trying to get people to come but for the most part we've just put up the show and hoped people will start talking about it. It is a word of mouth show and they shows really have started to fill up right away. The first couple of days people didn't know what it was but now they are really filling up and I think it is the word of mouth and I think it is a show you can come back to, if you like it a lot you can come back four days later and you will get a completely different show.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)Goat: \"Plus we got 4 stars in The Scotsman didn't we? Something like that. We got a good review.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, I hear we got 4 stars in The Scotsman.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Boggly Eyed Man: \"We do, we give people little candies or my goat will give them some milk and say 'come and see the show,' and oh boy if you like that milk.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)Goat: They love it .\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)Boggly Eyed Man: \"You'll love the show.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English)Goat: \"It's a gift, it's a little something I give out, I give to the people and they give back, it's just a good thing to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Excerpt from 'Bloggers: The Real Internet Diaries'\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Raven, member of Bloggers: The Real Internet Diaries:\u003cbr/\u003e(producer - left) and Oliver Mann (Director - right) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think when it comes down to it if you have got a really good show people are going to come and see it, there is lots of people drinking after the shows, it's word of mouth basically and if you have got a great show, like we have, I think people are going to come and see it in the end.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Oliver Mann: \"Badges, it's all about badges, that helps word of mouth too.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Sam Raven: \"We love bloggers.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Oliver Mann: \"Definitely.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. GV Royal Mile\u003cbr/\u003eThe Edinburgh Fringe Festival is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, but it's business as usual for the largest arts festival in the world.\u003cbr/\u003eThe festival brings in more than 1,800 shows by over 17,000 performers in 260 venues all over the Scottish capital.\u003cbr/\u003eFestival goers can take a massive variety of drama, dance, comedy and physical theatre, which tackle everything from the Iraq War and religion through to internet blogging and even some Jim Henson puppet improvisation.\u003cbr/\u003eMark Robertson, Deputy Editor, The List magazine thinks the festival is the best starting block if, you've got something good.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think people find it is a platform where they can come and hopefully be noticed, I mean, there are hundreds and hundreds of shows on but if your show is good you get a bit of exposure, you get a good review, there is a good chance you are going to get somewhere.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBecause of the amount of performances going on, there is serious competition between acts to ensure that people come to their plays, and so members of arts companies will try anything to get an audience.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it just gets crazier every year. 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