RECCE

i will be workign on the live team. so when i was at the hawth i had a look at the lighting and sound stage the equipment that we have to work with is a allen and heath gl330 sound desk and a strand 300 series lighting desk. there is 2 cd drives a minidisk drive. we are alowed to bring our projector which we can hopefully put in a cradle on the lighting rack. we will have about an hour before the event on the day to set up however hopefully we will be able to some things up prior to the event for example setting up the projector in the cradle the day before.

Sound desk guide
http://www.allen-heath.com/DL/gl3300ug_ap3102_4.pdf

lighting desk guide
http://www.strandlighting.com/clientuploads/directory/downloads/500series_usermanual.pdf

research

The concept around the advertising of The Brighton Festival Appears to be cakes which seems to be quite an odd choice but is a nice quirky design idea. When it comes to audience the festival has to appeal to quite a wide demographic so the designs a fairly simple and not too strong. On the website they give vital details such as times and dates as the festival is spread over a number of weeks. They also have a piece of writing about every event to inform people what they are.

The NME Awards uses a kind of industrial fairground look running through there campaign its quite effective. The graphic design is also generally very well done. I think this look would really appeal to the NME’s rock audience. The event is a one night event different to the Brighton festival I mentioned earlier.

http://www.brightonfestival.org/

Brighton festival is a series of cultural events spread over a few weeks events take part all over Brighton. they have used cakes as a theme in the marketing of this event.

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/home.

an event like Glastonbury thrives mainly off its history and reputation and gets most of its marketing through news feeds, interestingly this year despite its reputation as one of the greatest music festivals in the world it is struggling with ticket sales due to headliners. its general style of design in posters etc is rainbows and it also uses its famous pyramid stage

http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk/

download festival is interesting because it previous name was donnington park a festival that was associated with large stadium rock style bands. however it has tried to seem more updated in recent times by changing its marketing and name.