Professional Practice for Events

 Weeks 4 and 7  Sound is important within events as it sets the atmosphere and mood as guests enter the event space. Sound is vibrations which produce pressure changes in the air, creating a wave effect of high and low pressure (sound wave). In event spaces, sound causes echoes, reflections, absorption, diffraction and refraction all caused by waves. There are 5 basic components to sound which are known as SMASH (Source, mixer, amplifier, speakers, happy days). The basic sound chain consists of a microphone, CD player, amplifier, speaker and a mixing desk, which connects most of these components through the line level. We learnt how to connect these components to each other using inputs. Furthermore, we looked at the basic functions of  a DJ mixer. For our event, we have hired a DJ who will be bringing her own mixing desk and macbook to play music from so therefore the only sound equipment required will be speakers.  It is important to prevent safety hazards at any e...

Week 5  In this weeks workshop, we learnt how to use SketchUp. Our task was to make the walls and infrastructure of the Hospitality Suite. I used the toolbox and discovered useful tools such as the push/pull, shift and move icons to make the Suite look as realistic as possible. I adjusted the dimensions of the walls by typing in the numbers e.g., 3x3cm in the bottom right hand corner of the page. Furthermore, I used 3D warehouse to input the glass windows and furniture. This SketchUp demonstration I found useful as we had to use a map layout of the management building so physically building the Suite itself helped me envision the layout of where we can put everything on the day of our event.  This week, we learnt how to set up lighting systems safely. I learnt that there are many different types of lights including flood, birdies, parcan, fresnel, pebble convex and profiles. I think we will use more fresnel lights for our event rather than flood lights as fresnel lights have m...