Student Comperes
Eligibility and selection
The Pulse Alive team are seeking students confident in public speaking to act as comperes for Pulse Alive 2024.
Nominations are open to students in Year 5 to Year 12 in 2023 who will be enrolled at a NSW public school.
Students will be mentored during the process by a professional MC and supported through their involvement in the event.
Application is via video audition.
Please note, this category is only open to individual performers. Students selected as comperes will not be able to participate in the event in an additional category.
Successful students will require the endorsement of their school principal to participate. Students are encouraged to discuss their nomination with a teacher at their school prior to submission
Students participating in this category will be supervised by members of the Pulse Alive team. Schools will not be expected to provide a teacher for duty of care of these students.
How to apply
Applications for the Pulse Alive 2024 Student Comperes have now closed.
Auditions will be via video, which must be submitted with the nomination form.
To audition, students are required to:
Record yourself reading the script below and upload the video to the application form.
Change the words in red to personalise your recording.
Videos should either be uploaded to YouTube (as an unlisted link) or Vimeo with a password (please be sure to include the password to your video on your application form).
Audition script
Hello and welcome to Ken Rosewall Arena for Pulse Alive 2024!
I’m {INSERT NAME} from {INSERT SCHOOL NAME} and it is so {exciting, thrilling, energizing, or your own} to be here with over 2000 students from NSW public schools showcasing an incredible array of talent.
Pulse Alive 2024 celebrates Australian music, is all about celebrating the plethora of art created by Australian talent. So, every song you hear tonight is 100% Australian. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
A big arena like this calls for a big sound and joining us in the stands we have the {massive, beautiful, thundering, or your own} 1000-voice Pulse Alive massed choir. And, accompanying our entire show we have the {incredible, amazing, wonderful, or your own} Pulse Alive Showband.
But for now, please welcome to the stage Elton John with his own special rendition of the Wiggles classic 'Hot Potato'.
Key dates
Student comperes - key dates
Nominations close: Thursday 12 October (Term 4 Week 1)
Notification of audition results: Wednesday 25 October (Term 4 Week 3)
Compere scripting, rehearsals and filming - Ken Rosewall Arena: Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 March 2024 (Term 1 Week 7)
Sound check and dress rehearsal - Ken Rosewall Arena: Wednesday 13 March 2024 (Term 1 Week 7)
Performances - Ken Rosewall Arena: Thursday 14 and Friday 15 March 2024 (Term 1 Week 7).
Commitment
Students selected as student comperes will be expected to be available for all of the above rehearsal and performance dates.
Costume
The performance clothes for the comperes will be as follows:
Coloured Pulse Alive t-shirt – this is the show t-shirt that is included within your student resource fee.
Long black pants – these will need to be supplied by students.
Black socks – these will need to be supplied by students.
Black shoes – these will need to be supplied by students.
Resource fee
There will be a resource fee of $150 per student (GST inclusive).
The resource fee assists with the costs involved in the conductors, choreographers and tutors working with the students, supports a number of music copyright costs and includes a Pulse Alive t-shirt, which will be worn by all performers as their costume during the event.
Student Comperes will be required to pay the resource fee through The Arts Unit student payment portal on acceptance into the show.
Support materials
Explore The Arts Unit Creative Resource - Top tips for auditioning to support your preparations for your nomination.
Third-party content attributions
Pulse Alive 2021/22 images, photographer: Anna Warr
