PLAN

• Commercial Considerations  

              Market viability

              Available budget

              Income & Expenditure

Market viability: The market for putting gigs on in Preston is not the biggest but there is more than enough small venues to put the place on the map as a good place for live music. 

Available budget: As a group we decided that we were going to try and spend as little money on this as we possibly could, we have all contributed around £6 each of our own money to get this thing on the road.

Income and Expenditure: As a group putting the gig on our income is nothing as we are raising money for charity, the money we make will go to Oxjam. Our expenditure is our own money, so we will be at a loss after putting this gig on. We have all contributed £58 pound into a kitty and are using the money towards the marketing and advertisement of our event.

• Preparation of venue

              Identify the venue

              Acts booked

              Sound reinforcement and lighting arrangements

Identify the venue: The venue we have booked for this gig is the Kolor Bar in Preston town center, we thought this a good popular pub with a good reputation. 

Acts booked: The acts we have booked for this gig are all external bands from collage and consist of: Hero Syndrome, Forbidden Opportunities, Jamie Brewer, J.Carr. These are all local bands and artists. 

Sound reinforcement and lighting arrangements: As far as sound reinforcements go we have to source a mixer, and provide mics. The venue we have chose has a lighting rig permanently set up so we don’t need to bring one. 

• Organisational Processes & time management

               Schedule of production

               Schedule of rehearsals and meetings

               Production roles

               Marketing and promotion plan & schedule 

Schedule of Production: 

Our schedule of production for the night is:

Time of arrival for setting up, 6:00

Time of Sound check, 7:00

Time gig starts, 8:00

Time gig ends, 12:00

The bands would be playing at 

Schedule of rehearsals and meetings:

We have had around two to free meetings a week for and discussed all the aspects of the night that we are going to put on, there was no set times as such during some of the week where we had a set time for meetings so they were sometimes on our lunch brake and dinner brakes. 

Production Roles: 

Health and Safety, Max and Matt

Back Line, Everyone

Sound Engineer, Jack and Leo

Promotion, Adam

Finance, Will

Admin, Jack

Liaison manager, Rob 

Marketing and promotional plan & schedule:

The promotional plan we set up was to use posters and flyers to promote the event, we did have the idea of using a wrist band as a ticket and charging a £1, the wrist bands would have had the oxjam logo and info about the event but this idea didn’t happen due to a lack of organization.