Judging Panel: Over the Easter Break, our job was to make sure everything was being prepared for the final showcase and that we hadn’t forgotten anything. Our main priority was to organise a judging panel for the competition – luckily Miss Forsyth had a number of contacts that we could get in touch with to see if they would be interested in helping us out. Miss Forsyth helped us get Garry John Kane (Bass player from The Proclaimers), Lesley McLaren (local drummer) and Sara Kerr (singer) who are all in a band together called “Button Up” to be on our judging panel. And the fourth judge would be Mr Conley (a maths teacher from Clydeview Academy who also plays guitar.)
Sound and Light Teams: I contacted two HNC Sound Production
students who I know from college Jordan and Jamie to see if they would be
interested in helping us out for our Final Showcase and want to be involved
with taking charge of the sound equipment on the day. Sadly they both had other
commitments and couldn’t help us out, so we just got the Clydeview Academy guys
to take control of the sound equipment instead. Regarding a “lights team”,
another few guys from the school helped us out on the day by controlling the
light equipment which was great… the whole staging looked really professional
and we couldn’t have been more pleased with the light and sound teams!
Photo Permission: Due to our Creative Project being held in
a school, Colette and I were wondering if we would have needed permission to
take photographs during the day, however when I asked Miss Forsyth about it she
said that there was no need for us to worry as she had this sorted.
Press: Colette contacted the Greenock Telegraph during the
week of our “Final Showcase” and it was confirmed that a photographer would be
coming along to take photos on the day for the telegraph. The journalist couldn’t
make it on that date, however a few phone calls were exchanged before and after
the event to find out about our Creative Project and to get all the information
needed that would be put in the article.
Note: There were no costings and/or legal constraints involved in our Creative Project.
Overall Event: Our “Final Showcase” went really well! All
the students who performed were fantastic and the judges were blown away by the
level of musicianship these children have. Colette and I compared on the day
which was a bit daunting because we had nearly 100 pupils staring back at us who
came to sit in the audience!! The whole day went really well and all the staff,
pupils and judges seemed to really enjoy themselves.
Organizing an event like this made us both realise how
difficult and time consuming it is! However I’m sure that will not put us off
doing it again in the future!
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