Roles & Evaluation - Major Music Project

Roles & Evaluation - Major Music Project

Each person in the class had their roles such as posters, promotion, pre release, marketing, tech, lighting etc. Everyone worked hard which made our gig more successful.

Roles - Playback (Summer Gig):

Poster - Bianca & Demver

Demver and I were in charge of making the poster/flayers and putting them around college, because that is the easiest way of getting people to come to your gig by putting them around college so people can see it and by giving the flayers to people outside college which helped to promote our gig to the public inside college and outside. 

I was the one in charge of making the poster itself, putting all the information needed and making sure the look of the poster would grab people's attention with colour, pictures and font. While I was doing that, Demver helped me to put the right details on it, like address, price of the tickets etc. After finishing up with Demver's help, we started putting some of the posters around college and some near the entrance and we did the same thing with the flayers.

Lighting - Demver, Darlene & Bianca

The lighting in a concert is very important just like any other role, because it helps creates contrast and mood, for example, if the band is playing a love song the put red and white lights which goes with it or if it's a up tempo song then put mixed colours flashing at some points but it excites people but if the singers doing a A Capella song, then just the while light would be enough because everyone would be focused on the singer but in my opinion in a gig if there's no lights, I wouldn't enjoy as much.

Darlene and Demver were in charge with the lights, and what they did was to go through the set and talk between them which lights then think we suitable for each song and what I did was to ask the people performing which colour of the lights they wanted on their original songs and then tell Demver and Darlene which helped. After doing that we made a list with each song and what colour of the lights we needed on each song.

Social Media - Le-Shaun & Caitlyn

Another way of promoting yourself or getting people to come to the place where you are going to perform is through the Internet, social media. By creating a social media promote, for example, making an event on Facebook and inviting all your friends, by tweeting people you know on twitter or even making an video on your youtube page if you subscribers asking for people to come and by doing that, you will get more people to come to your gig, specially with Facebook because most of your friends and family members use it.

What Le-Shaun and Caitlyn did was to make an event on Facebook with all the information about the gig location, price of tickets and time and then they put all the performers as hosts so we could invite people from our own friends on Facebook. Caitlyn and Le-Shaun and some of us also shared the Facebook event on Twitter.

Pre Release - Garnett

Garnett's roll was to write about all the information needed about the gig the time, locations, price of the tickets and some other details and all that information was put on Facebook and shared on Twitter. After getting all the information needed and putting them all together, he submitted in onto a document and posted it on a Press Association which made it available for the public to view because it was on the association site. That role is very important because it is another way of promoting your gig and making the details about the gig available for everyone to see days before the gig.

Strategic Marketing - Donavon & Yemisi

What Donavon and Yemisi did was to talk to each other and figure out a way to get more people to come to the gig we were putting together with college and what they did was simply to ask in person people they knew, friends, family and even some other people from college, some of us also did the same which helped to get more people to come.

Tech - Andre Shanice

Andre and Shanice was involved with the production students because the were the tech team, what they did was to work on the sound quality, for example, the sound check of each performer making sure each person in the bad could be heard or if any of the singers wanted reverb or any other effect on their vocals they did to tell them so they could talk to the tech team and again make sure it could be added and heard by everyone.

Visuals - Dar

Dar made a montage video of all of the 2nd years. She put together some of the videos she took last year and some she took this year of us and made into a montage video with us performing, rehearsing in class etc. In the video Dar also included some of our songs, such as Priorities by Kieran, Prisoner by Yemisi, her own song and Darlene's.

Link of the video: Westminster Kingsway College Music (Montage Video)

Evaluation
In my opinion the entire gig went really well because we all worked really hard. Every performer wanted to put on a great performance and we did because we were so ready it that we could perform them with our eyes closed and the most important thing, we all had good time. Everything went as planned and the idea of having the bar and the DJ set before the actual gig was a great a idea because everyone was having a good time.
We were all happy with the amount of people that came to the concert, even though most of the people there were from the music department.
The first song of the actual gig was 'Take Me Back' which was cover. It's a uptempo song and it was a really good idea to start with it because it got people listening and enjoying it.
We were most worried about the amount of people that would come, but at the end of the day were happy because a lot of people were there and we knew they enjoyed every song and the night and which got us really excited and happy with the results of the how successful the gig was.