hiya all
im just starting out and have been working with a mobile dj doing his lighting for the last 4 years. i love making it look as good as i can and have spent well over £10000 on lighting equipment (loose change considering some lasers cost well inexcess of this but neva mind) i recently did a show for a small 500 person festival called summer sounds. i setup the show fully using about 20 scanners, a couple of yokes and 2 amazing coef movers (they are scanners really but i like them so much i dont like calling them scanner) not forgetting 2 x 200mw 532nm lasers, 1 x 450mw rgy and 1 450mw rgb with an extremly good white balance on.
The show in my opinion looked superb and iv got a buzz for it now, i just wanna do more and more shows. the total amount of lighting i have could probably do a venue of about 1500-2000 people still looking amazing.
I now just need to promote myself and get my name about so people start using me for there events. Im in the process of buying a hell of alot more lighting and trussing. At the moment my list of things to buy is 4 volcano smoke effect machines and 1 more hazer. 8 x yoke lights (very good chinese imports) for now an over head goalpost with winch stands from global truss and 2 x 1w greenies and a 1 w rgb now this will take me a while to buy all this but with income from shows coming it will happen alot quicker.
im just looking for advice from anyone who knows of exactly the best ways of getting my name out there and if anyone can help that would be great. im trying to find event companies at the moment (sort of agencies) that would give my details to people putting on these events but i aint heard anything.
im sure people on here have probably been at the same stage as me at some point and any help would be amazing
thankyou very much
ollie