BlastBeat
The Event that I am studying is the BlastBeat competition. The people who organised this event before the finals + semi finals was year 10's, they had to promote around the whole the school by putting up poster's, an album ( that supported the advertisement ), presentations in assembly's & so on. It was auditions first, the talent scouts from Blastbeast were the judges there was 3 judges there. The capacity of people that was there which was in the hall was about 50 people. The stage in the Assembly hall was big and it wasn't flat on the ground.
As we proceeded to the semi finals, the place was in liverpool station in a lounge (near bricklane). It was a small lounge and it was a small stage, this type of stage was stage that it was kind of on the floor.
The amount of people that was there was between 20-30 people. Here is a video of an example:
This was where the finals was. The venue was in the 02 Arena. The Capacity of people that was there was 02 Arena 20,000 people. In the finals, there was many people + many schools that were there to support their act on stage, there wasn't any empty seats at all. But in my estimation there was probably about 15,000-20,000 people supporting the BlastBeat acts. We was each given tickets to come into the 02 Arena to watch the event. It was free because we had a teacher to organise our tickets for us.
The acts had different genres upon them, there was a rock band, Urban band, dancer's, pop band and even a Choir. Acts of all ages were there, even primary school students were involved in the competition. awards were giving at the end after everyone has finished performed, Also there was guest stars performing there after the awards were finished giving out, they were called The Saturdays, Tinchy Stryder and DJ Ironik. On the stage there was many many spaces for the acts to move around it wasn't cramped together or anything, the act that I was supporting had 5 people on it, one rapper, one singer and 3 dancer's. There was 3 dancers behind the artists dancing to the song while the artists were at front. This is the video of them:
Each act lasted about 3-4 mins per song, most of the acts performed 3 songs, so in total minutes of their act it was 9 mins. When the act was finished 2 hosts appeared doing a little bit of comedy, to entertain the crowd while we had to wait for the other acts to perform on stage. The break (Comedy bit) would last about 10 mins, so it would take about 10-15 mins for the artists to get ready and perform on stage. These 'presenter's/comedians' were called Don & Boa. This is them: As you can see there was spotlights and multiple of lights being controlled by the lights technician
BlastBeat is a huge business that deals with events, competitions, helping people set up their own events and so on. For this competition everything was set in the 02 Arena.
Technical
I saw a technical team, who had Black T shirts on and a walky talky. These people were the ones who dealt with the music, the sound engineering making sure that everything sounds right and nothing goes wrong. The team were the ones who was normally at the back of the stage or whenever there was a break they would re-set up the microphones (any other equipment) for the other performer's. Without a Technical team for an event then there wouldn't be anyone in charge of the engineering or the set up. It would be a complete mess.
Shops
There wasn't really any 'bar's' but there was shops you could go to, where you could get popcorn, sweets, Nacho's and many more. The 02 Arena is a big place so there was pretty much a lot of takeaway shops.
Promotion.
BlastBeat is a really massive business/Fund-raiser. They use the same logo on every leaflet they handle out, especially if it's for online promoting. I think they do have a promoting team as well.
Venue too full?
Although the 02 Arena was packed with about 10,000 people, it wasn't full at all. Which was a great thing. BlastBeat chose the perfect place to hold the finals.
Security.
There was a security team and they were wearing green shirts, colour code is really important so things doesn't get mixed up with the technical team. These were the ones who were mostly on guard with the front of house and inside the 02 Arena.
Security is really important for events so that no trouble doesn't happen, it's the securities job to sort out anything bad that happens.
Front of house.
Front of house member's are really important, at the 02 Arena there was a couple of them. They would either take your ticket and then rip the top it just a little or they would take it away. These people are important because with no front of house - anyone can just walk in by.
