After Frankie’s Sweet 16 Friday, I was pumped up for Freedom High School’s prom. FHS was once told by a competitor that we DON’T have the best light show in Florida… it looks like we debunked that myth pretty quickly! 
Choosing from our most popular series of packages, the Showstopper, this Orlando school chose one of my favorites, the Showstopper3. Featuring over 70′ of trussing and a 20′ wide screen; (not diagonal people, 20′ wide)!!! The lightshow was amazing… I won’t delve too much into technical details but let’s just say you HAVE to watch the video!
Freedom is a very unique school; despite the urban population, the students LOVE techno, pop, and dance music… with the usual Rap, Reggaeton, Salsa, Merengue, and Reggae.
A couple highlights:
- Worked with the new Principal, Dr. Borders. A very nice person to work with and very eager person to help create an amazing prom.
- Ms. Light (the sponsor), did an amazing job finding a great balance between DJ, decorations, and location. This really was a perfect event!
- Complete DJ thing next: Almost 300 amps of power to play with!!
I only needed 100, but the extra was always welcomed. - 20′ screen.. need I say more?
- Very little grinding thanks to high energy mixes and 1000 glowsticks!!
- The kids did the Hokey Pokey– I kid you not… it was remixed in with the new dance craze, Stanky Legg.
- Mr. Youtz did a GREAT job with the Senior Superlatives… there were some unique categories!
- My crew! My wife (Monica), Derek and Ray are amazing workers who put 1000% into this job.. no matter what it takes!
- The ending!! Watch Part 2!!
Enough blabber.. watch the video & photos! I LOVE this school!!!!! CLICK BELOW FOR MORE!!
Photos were taken with my wife’s new phone…
The brains of the whole setup… my main rig which controls music, on the right is my Mac which serves as backup and also a sound board for remixes. On the left (not seen) is the rig that controls the lights.
The trussing on the right…
The trussing on the left….
A big zoom in of a small portion of the big light show
Derek (on my left), myself, and Ray. My wife took the photos.
The party begins!
We design our light shows with safety in mind. Even with the lights off (for dramatic moments such as announcing King & Queen), our blacklights flood enough light to allow the administration to view everything comfortably.
By the way, if you have a newer PC, hit the HQ button on the YouTube video… YouTUbe always darkens the videos.. it was a lot brighter than this!
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April 27th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
That has to be the best light show I have ever seen for a Florida School Prom. 20′ Screen, talk about larger then life. And FL’s crunkest DJ, man that was a night to remember!!!!!