Lighting Design, Scenery, Event Design Consultation: Adam Burwash, Mission Bell
Event Direction, Live Video Production, Technical Support: Centre Street Church Technical Team
Lighting Rentals: Christie Lights
What happens when you get six of country music's biggest names in one room all at the same time? Chaos. And you also get an amazing benefit concert.
The fourth annual Plant Big Seeds raised over $300,000 to send children on mission trips throughout North America and helped to build churches, community resource centers, and schools. It was an honor to help for this cause.
Production challenges for this event were massive. The team was faced with such challenges as driving a truck onstage (with all the artists sitting in the back), navigating six song sets without knowing what they were, and coordinating all of this with a live and silent auction. It had to feel as big and engaging as possible, but with production budgets kept to a minimum to raise the largest amount of cash for the cause.
Any time you add multiple artists onstage simultaneously and a live auction, you run into huge amounts of unscripted and outrageous behaviour. Everything to performers breaking out handicams to running up, down, and around the aisles flaunting auction merchandise, to firing merchandise into (and over) the audience, every rule in the book was broken, and the production team was responsible for thinking on their feet. The event consisted of about three minutes of highly scripted events for the artist's entrance atop a Ford F-350, followed by three hours of improvised and hijacked auction / concert set / general pandemonium.
Event Direction, Live Video Production, Technical Support: Centre Street Church Technical Team
Lighting Rentals: Christie Lights
What happens when you get six of country music's biggest names in one room all at the same time? Chaos. And you also get an amazing benefit concert.
The fourth annual Plant Big Seeds raised over $300,000 to send children on mission trips throughout North America and helped to build churches, community resource centers, and schools. It was an honor to help for this cause.
Production challenges for this event were massive. The team was faced with such challenges as driving a truck onstage (with all the artists sitting in the back), navigating six song sets without knowing what they were, and coordinating all of this with a live and silent auction. It had to feel as big and engaging as possible, but with production budgets kept to a minimum to raise the largest amount of cash for the cause.
Any time you add multiple artists onstage simultaneously and a live auction, you run into huge amounts of unscripted and outrageous behaviour. Everything to performers breaking out handicams to running up, down, and around the aisles flaunting auction merchandise, to firing merchandise into (and over) the audience, every rule in the book was broken, and the production team was responsible for thinking on their feet. The event consisted of about three minutes of highly scripted events for the artist's entrance atop a Ford F-350, followed by three hours of improvised and hijacked auction / concert set / general pandemonium.
