Making Due in Times of Trouble.

About two weeks ago on a Saturday, we...the Broadcast Team at First Baptist Church of Orlando was preparing for the Saturday evening service. As a surprise to all of us, suddenly, the lighting system failed, just minutes before the services were scheduled to begin. After the lighting designer fiddled with the 15-year old system and realized that he was limited on his options, he quickly began brainstorming on what he could do in order to get light into the auditorium.

Minutes before the service began, they had redone the trusses about the stage which allowed for light to be on the stage from the intelligent lights. Luckily, this brought enough light to the stage in order for the service to work and allowed for adequate camera usage. During the night, a select group of people worked diligently and re-hung some rented instruments from our rental house. Those instruments and the ones that we had on stage allowed for adequate light to be on stage for broadcast the next Sunday morning.

In the live event business, you never know when something is going to malfunction or fail. You constantly have to be thinking and always have a back up plan in the case that something fails or breaks on you...mid show or even moments before. Always remember the little things...such as putting a backup battery on consoles and interfaces. This is one of the simplest solutions that could solve very minor problems.

-Ken


Photos Taken by Scott Link: Orlando, FL