planning for a performance

The end of the year show is upon us,and this has to be epic,but how can we achieve this? there is some questions and answers that will help us to find out.


1.  what needs to be planned and why?

we need to plan the advertising,the stage design,the visuals such as lighting,projections,screens, and other effects such as smoke.

the advertising will help us to get people to come to the performance, the stage design will make everything easier for the day of the performance because we will have a plan of what it is needed for the day, this covers a great part of the stuff needed. Also,this is the first step that needs to be taken in order to put up a performance, we need to know who is playing,what are they playing,when are they playing.

2. what will you need and why?

we will need all the available resources, such as Facebook,posters,technicians, and a lot of creativity.

Facebook is a very common social network site now days many people use it and it is free,with this we can create an event and invite as much people as possible to come to the performance, but we don't have everyone's Facebook profile name,so we are also advertising the gig by using posters ( probably leaflets too ) around college.

Now the technical  side of it comes,we cannot operate many of the equipment that is going to be used for the performance,plus we are going to be performing, for this we will need to write the plan down and pass it on to the technicians that work at college,it can be either Grant, or Luis.

3. what are you doing how and why?

i am workings as a stage manager,some of my duties are:

✠to ensure that the performers have the necessary equipment
✠to ensure that the performers come on stage on time,at the right time
✠to ensure that the instruments are working, plugged in, and on the right settings for the performance.
✠to design the stage plan or map.

for this,there will be an stage map designed by the stage managing team,plus a set list on the walls at backstage so that everyone will know when to come on stage. At the sound check we will speak to the performers where to go and how to leave the stage so it is not messy making the performance look bad.

 

rehearsal diaries

hello there, today i am back to college from holiday, it was a nice experience.

I have been learning new songs on guitar and trying to develop new techniques, like improving my soloing and rhythm playing, to achieve this I learned "Seek and destroy" from Metallica's first album, is a really fun song to play,and the song structure is very complex, that leads to an constant playing through the song.It is half melody-half rhythm based, the intro can be is easily kept in the memory,as it the melody is very simple but strong, the time signature changes during the guitar solo.

Also, I have learned how to play "Omerta" from the mighty Lamb of god, ashes of the awake album. This song is very simple,but yet very fun to play and has helped me a lot to improve my alternate picking and my pinch harmonics use .it is riff based.