Brilliant Events

Glenwood House School Matric Dance 2024.... THIS was no ordinary event, and no ordinary approach!

When you arrive on site for setup, and your client says whatever aspect you setup, PUSH the boundaries way beyond anything you have ever done before - we want to show people that there is more to a production than they could ever have imagined.... You know you have to bend the rules of what has been done, and what you thought can't be done!

To begin with, this was 3 day matric dance event:
Friday - The actual matric dance
Saturday - The parents dance (who actually pay the school fees lol)
Monday - Matric Fashion Show

PA:
Our client wanted a crisp clear sound setting for speeches, live entertainment, DJ, and various walk up and other music items. We catered for 150 - 700 pax so we placed a beautiful rig for them that resonated in the room, feeling the bass, but you could have a conversation with the person next to you at top volume.

Visualy:
We used the venue screens & infrastructure combined with our visual gear, and superb 4k visual effects for guest arrival, party and more subtle scenes. The stage backdrop was setup with lighting and projector for a combination of colour scene changes, as well as incredible party visualisations.

Lighting & Special Effects:
Our client requested a room full of stars effect that is in line with their theme (not retro disco ball effect, although we used mirror balls, but in a very unique way) So we made it happen with a few extra colour effects :)
We had to position lighting strategically to get the stars effect, plus be modular for programming for party scenes, and stage wash for the fashion show. We combined our infrastructure with theirs, and made various aspects of the decor, dance floor, and backdrop and more, absolutely pop with colour and texture!
We also used a hazer to create that amazing lighting effect lines right throughout the production.
** a super stylish add on from the school side - they printed all the matric's names on stars, and that was stuck on the dance floor, shaping the size and aspect of the dance floor, with an incredible personal touch.

Stage:
We brought in a T-Shape ramp stage for the fashion show which was positioned to have all the choir, and fashion items displayed in such a way that the crowd were right up there in the midst to experience an almost 3D view of the activities.

Other:
Fancy Functions did a sterling job with the fairly lights, draping, tables, chairs and table decor!

We had an incredible time working with Mr Powell and his team, it takes immense creativity, perseverance, patience and authoritative stance to pull of en event like this - you have done an amazing job!!!

To our Heavenly Father, to you all the Glory and Praise for the privilege of doing this event, and for you hand in it all front start to finish!

A MASSIVE thank you to our team for the hard work and commitment in making sure everything ran 100% smooth at all time! You are amazing!

If we don't push our boundaries, how do we grow? This is why our slogan and ethos is INFINITE POSSIBILITIES!

Doing a 10 day festival in a 20m x 50m tent that is erected on grass, comes with interesting challenges every day - those who know, will know. The mega plus of the annual Knysna Oyster Festival this year, vs 2023, is that we didn’t have 25 days of rain in June. For us as the production company, meant way less worries about things like moisture and condensation.

The weather was perfect! Crowd capacity quickly rose by the thousands. There was an incredible atmosphere from registration for the Forest Marathon on Friday, right through the entire 10 days of the festival.

The Forest marathon was moved to the first weekend of the festival, instead of hosting this well attended event on the last weekend, we could see this was a brilliant call!

Following the marathon was World Cup rugby with the Boks playing Wales. We streamed it live in the tent and maxed out at capacity of 1500 people in the Castle Lite tent. The atmosphere was electric!!

Further to that, the rest of the week was filled activities and entertainment like the Amazing race, oyster shucking, CrossFit, local entertainment like Suzie Leigh, and other well known acts and comedians like Ard Matthews, Kerri Hiles, Conrad Koch, and Chester Missing.

Over and above the top notch sporting events, there were amazing desert wars, food stalls, gift stalls, kids play area and much more!

This year was the benchmark of seeing this amazing event on the rise again and we want to applaud everyone involved with the organising of each and every aspect of this festival!

It was an absolute honour for us to be the preferred AV partner for the 3rd year in a row, and we look forward to see this festival growth into all its glory!