Lee’s Daily Blog

At the weekend, I worked on a smallish event which was the Recital concert, for one of the Students’ Union Societies – Chaos

There was only a couple of us working on the event and it reminded me the importance of keeping things simple and how well it could work.

The venue we were working in was University Hall, which is not a frequently used venue (this is the third time we’ve used it since September). As there was only two of us present we decided to meet the client’s needs and keep things sensibe: 6 1K Fresnels to wash the stage area, 2 spots created using source four juniors (one for the piano, the one for the other performance spot) and four par 64s to act as uplighters either side of the projection screen.

That was it. It took us less than half an hour to rig and with so little, programming each peformance on the Jester was effortless, yet in my opinion it was one of the best looking events we’d carried out in Uni Hall.

Chaos Recital - The Lady Choir

I think it’s very easy to over complicate events like this, especially when you’re given pretty much free reign from a design point of view. Yet, by planning in advance, keeping things simple you can get something that is easy to work with and looks fantastic.

In most of the events we’ve used in this venue we’ve always used projection and have always had problems – until now. Perhaps it was because we didn’t have an external group coming in, but with a minor bit of editing of the powerpoint presentation we were given, we managed to get it so it didn’t hit the performers or the lights we hung, but with no noticeable difference to the client.

A few more photos of the event can be found below. Click to enlarge.