Major Music project

Major Music Project

 

When putting on a live event the roles that need to be involved in order for it to be successful are roles such as;

Sound engineer

Artists/Musicians

Stage managers

Visuals/Lighting engineers

Box office workers

Bartenders

All of these roles help to contribute a better show for the artist such as a sound engineer needs to make sure the sounds levels for the bands are on point and make sure there is no feedback from microphones. Stage managers have to make sure everything is going fine backstage and on stage they have to make sure the artists know there queue to go on stage they also have to make sure artists don’t exceed the time limit for a set. Lighting engineers have to make sure everything the visuals visualised have been done, they have to make sure the right lighting is on the right que as well as colouring. Furthermore, the box office workers have to make sure tickets are sold are the right price and things such as the guest list are sorted and done properly and the bartenders have to make sure they serve customers the right drinks and do not exceed the limit. Finally, the artists and musicians have to obviously be there to make the show happen.

In our end of summer event ‘signed’ we gave classmates different roles in order to make our show successful. We had all the roles required to make a live event work. When preparing for our gig we had to make sure things such as promotion and designs were on point in order to attract people and make them attend. Roy made sure he made the event page a few weeks before the show so it gives the audience an early notice, he also made sure he kept updating the page so the people who clicked attend wouldn’t forget which was a very good idea. John was in charge of the poster design which was great as it reflected what our gig was about by having our signatures on it. Christina and Sinai was in charge of the visuals there idea was to have a lot of colours as it portrays the idea of summer but when it came to the darker and slow songs they had different visuals.

As well as performing in the summer gig I also worked at the box office and bar. When I worked at the box office I many responsibilities such as making sure I knew how the guest list worked and the price for concessions and adults. Also I had to make sure people paid at the box office for alcoholic/non-alcoholic drinks, when they paid I had to give them a token which they had to take to the bar. When doing the bar work I had to make sure customers did not pay me with money but tokens as the college doesn’t have a licence. I made sure I gave customers a limited (but money worth) of alcohol as I didn’t want anyone to be out of proportion for a college show.

I was very pleased to say that our turned out really well. I also appreciated year 2 music production with their sound engineering, there levels and the reverb they used on the microphones was successful. However, there were times that I wasn’t happy the way my bass sounded at times but they did a good job in the end as I was satisfied after. I really liked the setting of the stages this year with the whole acoustic stage being separated from the main stage as I felt like I was like in a big gig with everyone standing around. We started our set with a cover which was by Bruno mars ‘Locked out of heaven’ this was a great way to start the set as it is an up-tempo chart song which the audience knew and loved. In between we had the classes original songs which brought out everyone’s individually. We ended with Beyonce ‘Work it out’ which was very groovy and up-tempo which would get the audience to leave with a positive vibe and remember the set. To make sure we made this set work out we had to rehearse multiple times on Wednesday and Friday and even though one of our band mates didn’t make the show we managed to figure to fill it out.