Biggleswade Christmas Light Switch On – Case Study

The end of November is a busy time for us with Christmas events all taking place over a couple of days on the last weekend of the month. We’ve written a post about the Hertford Castle Christmas Market event (which you can read here) which gave you an insight into the brief and proposal we agreed for the three-day event and in this post we’re going to cover what we provided for a one day Christmas Light Switch on event.

Proposal

We arranged an onsite meeting with the council representative to discuss their needs and work out what we could fit in the location. The access was wide, and the sheltered, hard standing site was perfect for our trailer stage. We recommended the 8m x 6m stage which would accommodate their performers and wouldn’t need any addition ballasting. 

For the sound, we recommended one of the line array speaker systems. They have high clarity and a long throw projection. This would be provided with one of our experienced sound engineers and all the microphones and stage monitoring speakers needed.

Finally, for the lighting we recommended supplementing the pre-installed basic lighting rig (that comes with this stage unit) with some additional moving lights to make it a more intense display. In many of our moving lights we are able have projected effects, silhouettes, and pictures, so we recommended to the council that we pre-install some Christmas projections to these lights, to add even more festive cheer to the event.

As a final touch, we recommended adding some snow cannons to the top of the stage, so that as the Christmas light in the town are switched on, the band could strike up a Christmas tune and the audience would be covered in snow.

Conclusion

The council were very impressed with our proposal and booked us for the event. On the day we arrived mid-morning to setup and had the stage setup ready for the school choirs to start just after lunchtime. The main event started at 4pm and finished at 8:30pm which meant we were off site by 11pm. This was one of three events our team worked on in the same night and it went off without a hitch.