Defining Events

The event I will be writing about is the end of year performance that took place at Westminister Kingsway College. This was a small event where parents and friends of the music students would watch them perform live at the end of their first year. The show lasted for over an hour and a half and their were lots of great acts in that time and this is an event that takes place in the college every year. This event also had a small bar where people can buy alcohol or juice.

The key things that made this event a success is:

• The music didn't have explicit content
• All the equipment was working properly
• The sound engineers and technicians knew what they were doing
• There was good lighting and smoke machines
• The musicians performed fantastically to the audience
• The DJ played different genres of music the people liked

Before this event happened, the event needed to meet important targets. These targets are:

• Promotion
• Venue
• Costing
• Equipment
• Performers
• Tickets
• Performance rehearsals
• Posters
• Banners
• Sound engineers & technicians
• Staging equipment
• Lighting
• Food & drink

Without these important factors the event would have not happened. These factors are essential for live gigs because a gig is a live show where musicians go on stage and entertain the audience and the audience will expect a great performance from each act. Promotion plays a big role. Promotion is the main factor that attracts people's attention to the gig that is taking place. Social network sites such as facebook & twitter are very useful for promoting an event. Also, sticking up posters is another way of promotion. The more promotion an event obtains, the more people are likely to show up at the event.

Without promoting an event, the people of the public won't know about these new and upcoming bands and solo musicians. Promotion will help the artist (s) mostly because it will not only attract other people's attention but it will help them get recognised by A&R consultants. A lot of people attended the end of year performance and this happened because the promotion of the event was spread across in and out of the college and the music students that were performing there told their parents and friends to come along and watch. 

These two videos show two songs performed by L2 music. By watching these two videos you can instantly tell that this music class rehearsed really hard. It took them a few months to choose or create the songs they were going to rehearse and perform to the college. It was crucial that L2 music, L3 music performance and production 1st year and 2nd year classes months before the actual show because the students will have been well prepared and organised for what they needed to do to make the show a brilliant success and that it why it was crucial to be well prepared.

The sound engineers & technicians also played another key role in the end of year performance. The sound engineers & technicians are responsible for setting the equipment up and making sure the gain levels for all the equipment are equal. The sound engineers & technicians who are working before, during and after the gig must always pay attention to what they are doing. This means no one else should be distracting them while they are concentrating on what they are doing because if there are distractions then the sound engineers & technicians will lose focus on what they are doing and this can become a serious problem in a live gig.

The sound engineers & technicians that were supervising for the end of year performance did a brilliant job at making the event run smoothly and sound perfect. They really understood what they needed to do and what needed tweaking.