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5 Quick Tips For Entertaining at Your Party
1. A great soundtrack. Music is key at any event or party. It sets the mood and gets your crowd bumping…or relaxed, depending on your sound track and what mood you are trying to create.
2. Great food. The food at your event or party does not have to be complex, it can be simple, but make sure it is great! Your guests will like simple recognizable items and will be very appreciative for it. People love snacking!
3. Have a fabulous entertainer. Hire a magician or comedian (like myself!) to warm up the crowd, make them smile and lighten the mood of the room. Your guests’ being constantly entertained is key to having a great party. Smiling = happy guests.
4. Have a cool game to play. There is nothing like having good interaction at a party and getting all your guests involved. Think of a cool game everyone can play. Anything from a trivia game to a board game to a physical game like Twister. Or you can create teams and compete on a gaming system, like Wii. The more activities, the less chance of your guests getting bored.
5. Drinks! Fantastic drinks will get your crowd going. For adults, create unique cocktails perfectly tailored for your party – for kids, keep the same frame of mind, but look for different type of juices, sodas and flavored waters.
5 Tips Modeling & Posing on the Red Carpet
Here are some quick tips for you and your guests posing on the Red Carpet Runway!
1) Breathe & Smile
Although sometimes concentration enhances a good photograph, don’t hold your breath for a modeling pose - breathe and appear at ease. If you have a naturally beautiful smile, shine it with pride.
Add variety to your poses, your facial expressions can make or break your modeling poses.
2) Have Good Posture
When modeling, always be conscious of your posture. Remember to keep your back straight and your shoulders up. Slouching will enlarge the appearances of your mid section. Always remember to flex your stomach, your abdomen will appear more toned if flexed.
3) Show Your Assets
Make sure your best assets shine – it could be your perfect legs, your toned arms, your cleavage or your butt. Keep in mind what poses and angles will best show off these body parts on camera. This could be a forward lean, use of your arms or legs, or a backside shot with your head turned toward camera.
4) Show Off The Limbs
When posing, make sure to differentiate your arms and legs with asymmetrical poses. If you have one arm straight, bend the other arm. The bend will make the modeling pose look more real. Continue the asymmetry to your legs. If one leg is locked straight, give the other leg a casual bend.
5) Know the Camera
Don’t look directly into the camera for all poses. Look away with a mix of head and eye poses. Look off to the right or left side or give a wave to the “crowd”. Remember, your head and neck can remain stationary and your eyes can do the work.
5 Quick Fitness & Toning Tips
Your big red carpet moment is here!
If you need to look great, and a tight pair of Spanx can’t suck everything in – here are 5 quick moves that target the 5 areas that will show up on your close-up:
- Triceps
- Biceps
- Shoulders
- Upper-back
- Calfs
Included is a cardio fat-melting move to slim all over. Grab a pair of 10 pound weights and get started.
Move 1: Cardio Squat Trusts
What it does: Melts fat, increases metabolism, lifts chest, firms shoulders, tightens abs and tones quads, glutes and calves.
How to do it: Perform this move to an 8 count with your favorite up-temp music. Do 2 jumping jacks (counts 1,2) touch the floor with your hands and jump back to a plank (counts 3,4), do a pushup (counts 5,6) jump back to standing (counts 7,8.)
Repeat: 10 times
Move 2: French Press Calf Raises
What it does: Tones back of the arms for sleeveless dresses, and calves for short skirts.
How to do it: Begin standing up with one heavy weight (ie 10 pounds) and hold it overhead in both hands. Lower the weights behind your head, keeping elbows and triceps close to your face. Press back up for one rep and as you lift the weight, rise up onto the balls of your feet. Lower on to our heels as you lower the weight each time.
Repeat: 10 times
Move 3: Reach For The Stars
What it does: Sculpts shoulders and strengthens obliques.
How to do it: Stand with a 10 pound weight in each hand. Raise right hand to shoulder level. Bend to your left, sliding left hand and weight down your leg as you push the right hand weight to the sky. Return to standing and lower right hand weight to the shoulder. Focus on tightening abs (obliques on our right) in order to lift the body back to an upright position.
Repeat: Perform 10 times on each side
Move 4: Martini Shaker
What it does: Works biceps and obliques for an hourglass photo pose.
How to do it: Sit on a mat with one 10 pound weight and lean back at a 45 degree angle. Lift both legs off the ground. Place the fat ends of the weight in each palm. Drop the weight into the palm of the right hand and turn your body to the right. Return to center with legs lifted and then drop the weight into the left palm and turn to your left
Repeat: Pretend the weight is a drink shaker and create your concoction with 20 reps
Move 5: Plank Rows
What it does: Works upper back, for backless and halter dresses, shoulders and abdominals for a tight tummy pose.
How to do it: Put a 10 pound weight in each hand and support yourself on top of them in a plank position, hands directly under shoulders and toes on the ground, knees lifted. Your heels, hips and shoulders should form a straight line, like a plank or a board. From here, lift the right weight off the ground to your ribcage and push your elbow to the sky on the other side for one rep.
Repeat: Perform 10 repetitions
Do moves 1-5 three times for a complete 30-minute multitasking workout sure to mold your body into shape wherever your dress style shows skin.
For a great stretch and more multitasking workouts on DVD, visit www.nikkifitness.com
5 DJ’s Tips for the Red Carpet Parties
1. Know your guests. Music is the key to any event or party. Know what your guests musical tastes are so you can set the mood and get the event and crowd into it.
2. Know what songs are popular. A lil out of it? Head to the iTunes store to see what people are listening to by clicking on most popular songs. You can check out overall hits, as well as genre specific.
3. Test Your Equipment. Nothing is worse than equipment that doesn’t work when you need it to. Make sure whatever equipment you planning pumping your music through at your party is fully tested before guests arrive.
4. Assign Responsibility. Music is so important, that someone at the party should have it on their mind at all times. Weather it is a DJ you’ve hired, someone working the laptop, or someone switching play lists – music should always be at the top of someone’s mind.
5. Encourage Dancing! No one likes a party where no one moves. If the music is correct your guests will be dancing the night away!
5 Tips Taking Better Party Photos
Taking great photos & video are the key to having a great Red Carpet Runway Experience.
You don’t need the most expensive camera or years of experience, just a few simple tips!
Tip 1 – Fill the Viewfinder
Use all the space in your photo viewfinder. The backdrop and red carpet should take up the whole shot with no or very little background showing. Keep distractions out of your shot.
Tip 2 – Poses & Styles
Most people have not posed before – so they may need suggestions on poses. It is the photog’s job to have energy and to get the subject excited. Some easy poses are one hand on hip, a slow 360 turn, a sideshot, blowing a kiss and a wave to the crowd.
Tip 3 – Encourage Both Solo Shot & Group Shots
While outgoing guests may be fine posing by themselves, other guests may need the energy of a group to have the courage to pose. Encourage small groups of two or three people to pose at the same time.
Tip 4 – Add the Paparazzi Effect
Have multiple people take photos at the same time will simulate a photo pit. Encourage the photogs to scream personalized cat calls such as “Katie, Over Here” “Look this way, Kate” “One More Time Kate” The multiple flashes, and screaming gives great energy to the subject.
Tip 5 – Touch-Ups before Publishing
We recommend quick touch-ups on your photos by cropping, brightening and removing blemishes (or former friends. HA) before you publish them to your social media sites. Lighting is usually the hardest thing to get perfect, as most photos will be taken in a dark room, and most flashes wont light the red carpet area fully.
Bonus Tip! Click below for some free photo editing software:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pixelbasedwin/tp/freephotoedw.htm
5 Tips Designing Your Backdrop
1. Size Matters
Make sure you know how much space you are working with so you can create the correct backdrop for your party.
Gold – 5 feet wide, great for 2-3 people
Platinum – 7 feet wide, great for 3-4 people
Hollywood – 10 feet wide, great for 4-5 people & group photos
2. Logo Quality
For best quality output, logos should be in original Vector files (.ai, .eps, .pdf) If you are using Raster files (.psd, .jpg, tif ) – they should be 300 dpi or better for best output. Your logo can be manipulated as needed from there.
3. Logo Structure
For best visual results, the logo width shouldn’t be more than double the height. Note: Disproportionately sized logos may disturb the patterned layout.
4. Fonts
When choosing patterns that include both text and logos, or text only, select a font style that is bold, clean, clear and can be read from a distance.
5. Pattern Layout
Red Carpet Runway has a dozen popular pattern designs that you can select from for the placement of your logo(s). If you have a special layout request, we will work with you to accommodate your logos in that pattern.
