Well the show is over for another year... Everyone liked the set so much, they are thinking of useing it on other shows we do for them now... This is sort of a good thing, and partially bad as well... This set takes more people and more time to load in than the set we used for their smaller shows in the past... That would seem to be a good thing as I can put more people on the call. Not really since we make very little on labor... We also will be looseing a sizable chunk of our lighting rental because this set includes lights purchased by the client for it. We make a load of cash on the lighting aspect normally... There are now modifications we need to make to the set to speed up the in and out, as much for my sanity, as for the profitability...
On the whole, things went well... Everything that was approved early enough got teched in the shop, and went in pretty much as it should. Things that there was no time to tech, were a little rough unfortunatly... The custom painted softgoods from Sweden came in, and the client wasn't happy, so we had another run done and fed-ex'd to us from Sweden just in time for the actual meeting... (you don't even want to know what that cost... hell I don't even know yet... but its not going to be pleasant...)
This is going to be one of those shows that is going to live on in stories for a long time... The kind of thing that gives you a baseline against which to compare either your misery of the moment, or a clients actions... All in all, it was ok... Not excellent as it could have been, but wholely acceptable considering the circumstances.
And now, let the weekend commence! (yea, I know it's only Friday)
Posted by Backstage at April 23, 2004 01:42 PMSO what exactly does your company do? Do you do lighting design and set construction? Do you design the sets? I'm curious.
Posted by: Mookie at April 23, 2004 06:31 PMWell we do a few things actualy... We build scenery for either sale or rental... We also rent lighting equipment... We crew events. (aka provide technicians for the event) We also provide payroll services if a client has their own crew, but no way to easily pay them leagaly.
We do not provide much in the way of design services, though we do try to guide clients through smaller events where there is no design staff. (hey, I have to use those classes I had to get through in college for something) We also frequently put clients in contact with one of the designers that we work with.