Analysis Of Staging, Concepts, Theming, And Audience In Vivid Sydney 2018

1.You will need to refer to websites that relate to the case study ‘Vivid Sydney’ for Part a).

2.Reflecting on the content covered in this subject (on the concepts, theming and staging of events) and based on your own opinions, beliefs and experiences reflect upon the relationship between Events Concept, Theming, Audience and Staging.

The following essay deals with the case study on the famous event held in Sydney, Australia, the Vivid Sydney 2018. The first part of the essay deals with the major staging and the presentation of the events that have been incorporated within the festival and tends to analyze the staging of the various themes of the festival. The second part of the essay reflects on the matters that pertain to the activities that are incorporated within the festival and nears the end with the ways in which the concerned event might help the involved persons in the future days.

Concept

Vivid Sydney is one of the largest festivals of the ideas, lights and music that takes place in Australia. The concerned event is known for the huge installations and the gripping music that is available to the audience as well as the participants of the festival. The stage and the other installations ideas that are presented to the audience are known to be very attractive and unique thereby leading to the huge popularity of the show (Vividsydney.com 2018). The festival is known for the various amounts of the light and the pathway that is adorned with the lights in order to facilitate the nocturnal walk that takes place during the festival (Barbeler, Jetis and Taylor 2017). The major attractions of the festival are the walks through the Royal Botanic Garden which helps the concerned participants to know more about the natural nocturnal environment and also entertain themselves by participating in the various events like the various music festivals that are organized within the venue (Vividsydney.com 2018).

Staging

The staging of the event includes the specifically designed booths that help the audience and the participants to entertain themselves by clicking pictures and take part in the activities that might provide them with the certain experiences that might be available to them while they have been taking part in the various events in the schedule. The other events that tend to attract the audience to this festival include the animal light sculptures that might help the concerned participants gather more knowledge about the ways in which the conservation of the wildlife might be possible (Haeusler 2014). The event further includes the staging that helps the participants to experience the marine ecosystem with the incorporation of water fountains, lights and the lasers (Dwyer 2017). The sound systems installed in the various venues help the participants of the event .to experience the sound of the waves and the other surroundings of the concerned person thereby providing them with the feel of the various imagery and the sound effects that have been a specialty as put forth by NASA (Vividsydney.com 2018).

Concept

The review of the event in discussion, Vivid Sydney, deals with the various notions of themes, concepts, staging and the audience of the concerned event. The event is known to be the largest festival of ideas, lights and music that is organized in the world. The event is being held at the Luna Park, Sydney Australia and is known to be inclusive of the both the water events as well as the events that are inclusive of the lighting and the sound effects that might have been incorporated within the event (Vividsydney.com 2018). The event in discussion includes the different concepts that result in the relationship between the staging and the thematic presentation of the events that are included within the concerned festival.

Staging

The staging of the various events that attracted participants as well as the audience from all over the world. The staging of the various events that are inclusive within the festival tend to incorporate the various matters that are related to the proper planning and the execution of the numerous events and the subevents that are incorporated within the concerned activity. The staging of the events includes the various arrangements that include the laying out of the various props and the arrangements according to the themes that have been decided upon by the various members who have been involved in the matters related to the actualizing of the thoughts of the concerned arrangers of the event (Haeusler 2014). The staging of the various events that were part of the festival included the lighting of the stages, the props that were used for the event had to be arranged in a proper manner in order to successfully conduct the festival. The staging included the various musical events as well as the photography booths that were set up at the venue in order to entertain the various participants of the concerned event. The activities that pertain to the staging of the events had helped me to gain more knowledge on the practicalities that are involved in the matters. This knowledge might help me in the future to manage larger events.

Concept

The arrangers and the hosts of the event had to take special care in the fact that the light arrangements that had been made in the various arenas of the selected venues. The various staging factors that were involved within the event included the implantation and the management of the prop that was being used for the purpose of helping the concerned participants and the audience of the nearby musical events to click pictures thereby helping them to create memories that they might look up in the future days. The concerned event managers were considered to be responsible for the proper functioning of these instalments. The event managers were also entrusted with the duty of guiding the participants through the correct pathways since the event was a nocturnal one that had been organized. The staging of the event also included the light and the sound shows that involved the creation of the effects of the surrounding marine life at an event that was organized at the Darling Harbour. This particular event dealt with the matters that pertained to the creation of an underwater environment that helped in the depiction of the same for the various participants who attended the concerned show (Hespanhol et al. 2014). The event included the implementation of the and the management of the various projectors. This aspect of the staging was especially helpful since this helped me to learn more about the arrangement of the projectors as well as the technicalities that are involved in the same. This would involve the use of the high-quality projectors and the sound mangers. The crew members of the event should deal with the various arrangements that might include the maintenance of the installations of the various projectors as well as the seating arrangements of the audience in the concerned area. The event would also include the illumination of the various buildings in the area that are known for their architectural beauty as well as their historical importance (Giordano and Ong 2017). The festival has also been known for the conduction of the events that include the shows that would involve the floating of a huge luminescent puppet in the water that would demonstrate the breathtaking views of the surrounding water bodies through the incorporation of the various puppets that have been installed in the water bodies. This has helped me to know about the various ways in which the themes might be implemented and executed in order to connect with the audiences as well as the participants of the event.

The event has helped in the clarity of the practices that are involved within the various processes that are included within the activities of staging and presenting the various events that are included within the festival. The events within the festival has assisted me in the understanding of the various nuances of the actualization of the concepts that have been chosen for the implementation in the concerned festival. The execution of the concepts of the electrically enabled flower at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, The Bloom, has assisted in the development of the knowledge that is needed for the installation of these kinds of props within the chosen area. The management of the concerned event has further helped in acquiring the knowledge on the various matters that pertain to the used various musical instruments and their proper handling. The management of the event has helped a lot in the understanding and the implementation of the methods and the techniques that are needed in the handling of the various events that are conducted taking into consideration a huge audience that might comprise of people belonging to various cultural and social backgrounds

References

Barbeler, D., Jetis, T. and Taylor, J.R., 2017. Music Orchard. Vivid Sydney 2017 (26/05/2017: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW).

Dwyer, S., 2017. Highlighting the Build: Using Lighting to Showcase the Sydney Opera House. M/C Journal, 20(2).

Giordano, E. and Ong, C.E., 2017. Light festivals, policy mobilities and urban tourism. Tourism Geographies, 19(5), pp.699-716.

Haeusler, M.H., 2014. The Sydney Vivid Festival: From Place Branding to Smart Cities. Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination, p.144.

Hespanhol, L., Bown, O., Cao, J. and Tomitsch, M., 2013, November. Evaluating the effectiveness of audio-visual cues in immersive user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration (pp. 569-572). ACM.

Hespanhol, L., Tomitsch, M., Bown, O. and Young, M., 2014, June. Using embodied audio-visual interaction to promote social encounters around large media façades. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (pp. 945-954). ACM.

McCarthy, B., 2013. The landscape of music festivals in Australia. In Music Business and the Experience Economy(pp. 119-134). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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