I believe the event all ran very smoothly; the event itself
looked and sounded professional. However the process leading up to it had minor
hick-ups. During the set-up we had discovered that Jordi (The Technical
Manager) had forgotten the Lighting and set design plans. Although this was not
any fault of his, this could have been easily avoided if Both me and Matt had a
copy of our own plans aswell. As well as ensuring that I have my plans next time
I will have to triple check to make sure we don’t forget anything else. We can
make this easier by having a checklist of all the things that we need. There
were a few other things that we didn’t bring that later Julie had to make a
trip back to college to pick up when she went to pick people up at 4 o’clock.
The only thing needed by the lighting department was extension leads as we
didn’t bring enough. Which had delayed the setup being complete, it didn’t take
long to finish the setup after Julie had arrived with extras.
Another thing that could have helped immensely was
documentation such as the colour call. Although I had my lighting design
completed within plenty of time I had forgotten to produce a colour call which
would have helped us when creating the checklist so we could see clearly which
gels we would need and which size they would have to be to fit into the gel
frames of certain lights (which wasn’t a huge variety as we only used 2 of the
same gels for 2 fresnels of the 6 that we had taken.) this could have sped up
the process of getting everything ready to take all at once to Arley. Next time
to make sure that this doesn’t occur again I will create this piece of
documentation when I find what I want.
Also during the process I had to
make a few last minute decisions, such as deciding on which colours I would
like to use for the L.E.D par cans. Even though there were decisions on the
plan I couldn’t remember which codes were used. I had to improvise by quickly
running through the options we had, In the end I decided that I would just keep
a consistent theme of colour running through by using purple, The reason I
chose those colours were because the original idea I had of using plain whites
were too plain and weren’t a vibrant enough colour to light the architecture
appropriately as well as looking more tacky the classical. I decided it would
be better to add 2 more L.E.D pars in the fireplace using a warm orange to
create the feel that the fire was lit. However it was too hot to have it lit
while the audience were sat so close.
However, despite the things that
went wrong during the process of the setup, The outcome of it all was very
good, The set, the lighting, the sound were all setup to a very professional
level. It looked classical with the Christmas theme included. The colours that
were running throughout the whole event from the marketing side to the lighting
and the set all had a consistent theme. The planning up until the night of the
event was well organised. The feedback from the audience that we received as a
whole was very positive, people would like to come to see the next events that
we put on.
On whole I believe the Event was a
huge success raising the amount of £1,407 towards our charity, of which we are
all astounded with.
