This year Hawker College and their arts, dance and music departments collaborated to put together a full evening of artistic talent. The evening began with a few showcasing dance items, then the fashion class modeled their works, fifteen pieces in total with accompanying ‘introductory to the brand’ video projections.
After this part of the show there was a half hour interval where the schools Jazz band setup on stage, this gave the audience the opportunity to tour the students major art and graphic design exhibits that had been setup in the Drama room, and the art gallery under appropriate lighting.
I was contracted in to tech manage the show and make sure it all ran smoothly, during the show I ran audio, a simple matter of juggling a few CDs with dance tracks.
Pre-show there was half a day of rehearsals for the dance students and models to get the hang of what they were doing, during their rehearsal the two person crew, myself and a year twelve student, ran the cues as per their need.
During some free time that week I added to the lighting rig, tidying up the rig from the schools last productions to the standard rig I designed. I also added 240v par cans in to the rig and some extra Fresnel’s for a clean white wash up the center of the stage for the model ‘cat walk’. If budget or time had been permitting I would have rigged parallel lighting bars for a much fuller and tighter light pool.
Lighting
- In-House Lighting (White Stage Wash, Blues, Coloured Battens)
Sound
JBL in-house system
- Soundcraft 12 channel desk
- 2 foldback sends, 2 wedges + 2 hanging BOSE 802’s
- 3 Shure SM58
- Dynamic Mic
- 2 x Denon CD/Tape Players
- 2 x DI
The show itself wasn’t very tasking, I operated sound and projector blanking while my other operator ran lighting and cued the video clips for the fashion parades. It had to flow smoothly from the MCs to the video, fade up lighting at the end for the fashion models, then fade down as they left the stage back to MCs.
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