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What is a Stage Plot?
A Stage Plot (or technical rider) is a document that details exactly what your band needs to make a show fantastic. It details the equipment and instruments of every band member, the input you will need from the venues that you're playing and how you want your stage to look and sound.
What Can You Include on a Tech Rider?
If you're a small band and you don't have much equipment or instruments with you, your Stage Plot will most likely mainly cover the gear that you're using onstage. As your band grows, your Tech Rider will start to include any FOH consoles that you bring with you, the lighting rigs you're touring with and any pyrotechnics that you have onstage. A Stage Plot is constantly updated as you continue touring and continue growing as a band.
How Do You Create a Stage Plot?
You can search for bands who have a similar sound to yours, as they will more than likely have a similar Tech Rider to the one that you'll need. When you don't have a good idea of what you need to include on your Tech Rider, then make a list of the equipment you have for your band and the make and model that this equipment is. When you've done this, you can use an online Stage Plot generator to create your full Tech Rider online.
What Do You Do With a Stage Plot?
Once you've created your Tech Rider, you can send it out to all venues that you will be playing in advance of you doing your shows there. They will know exactly what equipment to expect from you and your day will run a lot more smoothly. You'll soon see what a difference sending this Tech Rider out to venues in advance makes to the quality of your live show!
First off let us just explain that a rider is a set of requests and criteria made by the performer prior to the performance. Everyone has a Hospitality Rider and everyone uses them, from Adele performing in concert to Hugh Jackman performing in theatre.
What is a Hospitality Rider?
A Hospitality Rider is just as it sounds, a set of requests to welcome the performer and make them feel at home. They can also be contractual, so if the needs of the rider aren't met the performer has the right to cancel the performance and the fees be paid regardless.
What sort of requests are in a Hospitality Rider?
Within reason anything can be written in the rider, from the hotel they stay in to the food they eat and the furniture they sit on. The bigger the name, the more demands you can get away with it seems.
Food and drink - Most performers stipulate a certain set of beverages, maybe part of their routine is to have a nice cold drink before or after the performance and it has to be a particular brand. Food is also a popular request, some request they must have fruit in their room or strictly forbid deep fried foods. Vicious Cycle for example stipulated a hot meal for the artists and crew but no fried food.
The majority of the Hospitality Rider are requests made for comfort and to help the performer relax but there are times where the big names become 'divas' and demand outrageous requests and god help the organisers if these demands aren't met.
Use our free online stage plan builder for musicians to create the exact stage plot for your gig. After that all you need to do is send the provided URL to the engineer of the venue. You can enter your instruments, monitors, DI boxes etc, scale and rotate and provide full details of what you want.
Use our stage plan builder for venues and managers to share plots with artists who either perform at your venue or who work with you. After you share the plot, the artist can then create their stage plot by adding musicians and equipment to the plan.
For any one who has a stage that artists perform on, using our pro services means you can create your stage (including stage dimensions and equipment like monitors, drum risers etc) and share it with artists who can add their equipment to your stage.
Our pro services let you add or remove artists access to the plots, time and time again, meaning you can share and unshare - and of course, you can always edit the plots as and when you need!.
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Yeah, I tried a chapter by chapter outline. I planned out the entire book and then when I actually started writing I got to chapter three before it all fell apart. I am too much of a panster, even when I do plan. I like the vagueness but set formula the 6 stage allows. ?
I do mine using Excel - it's way easier to create and manipulate shapes and Word-Art text in Excel than to move shapes around the text in Word (At least it is for me: I tried to build a plot in Word before, but it's a PITA to do a simple one).
I couldn't care less how cool it looks. I just want it to be functional, and for me it is. I have far better things to spend my time on that concerning myself with how visually appealing my stage plot is.
When using Excel, I do not format the actual cells for shapes, etc.; that takes too much time/is not easy. I use the Insert/Shapes menu to place shapes (rectangles for amps, circles for drums/cymbals, trapezoids for wedges, etc.) on/over the cells. It's just easier to move/manipulate shapes without affecting everything else on the page in Excel than Word (for me).
My experience working production at venues from 200-2k capacity, and for a sound/backline company that provided PA for up to 10k crowds, is that a clean & simple block shape plot with simple text is what's standard AND what's preferred (and most functional).
YMMV, and if it has worked for you thus far, there's no reason to stop. I'm just saying it looks like a grade-school art project look AND would be perceived by many to whom it should matter, as unprofessional & useless.
Granted I rarely need a stage plot. We usually play the bar/club circuit where no stage plots are needed, and when we do do larger gigs (Earth Day festivals, Street dances ect....) the stuff at free stage plots looks a lot better and is easier to read than the hand drawn and scribbled stage plots on notebook paper that most bands hand in. I just don't see any point in spending any time worrying about how "cool" something like that is.
I don't have to provide stage plot information all that often since we usually use our own PA. However, when I am asked to provide it - I give 'em two documents. One is a simple diagram I put together using Powerpoint - the other is a input list that I created in Excell.
Note that the "Connection Location" information included on the Input List document refers to where the connection is made when I'm using my PA (which uses two small 6 channel drop boxes - one placed at the front of the stage for "front line" connections and one place at the rear of the stage for "back line" connections.)
I'm sure Publisher would be fine. I did this one in Photoshop. It's more usable and more accurate than the one I did last year in one of those fancy programs. Pictures aren't really necessary but I figure WTH, I like pictures. Like Norman, I do my input lists in a spreadsheet. I also use a spreadsheet for set lists. That helps me get the sent length correct.
I have to do stage plots for a couple of my bands. I did it before with crude drawings but now I see there are apps that have icons for instruments, etc. Some of them are free but want you to pay for upgrade, some are more costly. I've read reviews and there's lots of criticisms of most programs. Do you use a program for designing stage plots? DOo you like it? I don't mind paying a small fee but I don't want to pay a large one unless I've tried it out and liked it. I'm on a Mac if that makes a difference. Thanks in advancee for any info
Thanks for the ideas. Yeah, that's what I did before - just use shapes and label them. I might try it in keynote. Or even in a photo program. I don't need anything fancy, just something to show sound engineer where things are and what the needs for mics, stands, DIs are.
I needed to provide one to a sound company and found a dedicated web-based free site (iirc). Trying to remember what it was now. Basically was visio-ish but with music-related icons instead of standard flow chart ones!
Edit, found it: Stage Plot Designer
It has an input list which is nice for telling them what instrument lines you'll need.
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Thanks for suggestion of using Keynote (Powerpoint equivalent on Mac). I tried it out and it was a breeze. Never used Keynote before. Little bit of a learning curve to get the formatting to work. But generated a usable stage plot for my purposes. Now I'll do one for my main band. Thanks much for the idea.
Sound system: AE requires a PA system with 4 inputs for smaller indoor venues and 5 inputs for larger or outdoor venues. PA should also have 2 monitor mixes for all venues. PA MUST HAVE PHANTOM POWER. AE always carries their own microphones/DI boxes and do not need mic stands. Please download and print our stage plot with all requirements.
Stage/Lighting: AE sets up downstage center. They need one armless chairs (for cello) and one medium-height stool (for guitar), and 4 electrical outlets for power. They only take up about 8X6 feet of stage, so with that in mind you can plan on how much light the audience needs to see them. AE is very visual in their performance and they sit down to play, and ideally should be ELEVATED ON A RISER OR STAGE. All outdoor performances must be covered and pre-approved. It is nearly impossible to perform outside in the winter, or if the temperature drops below 60 degrees. Plants and rugs are appreciated to dress the stage area up.
Dressing rooms: AE will need a place to change and warm up before the show, and access to a restroom near the performance area. This should include a place to hang clothes, a couple of chairs, water, and hot herbal tea when possible. The room needs to be warm.
Lodging: One room for _____ night(s) with a king size bed preferred, no smoking, ground floor (if no elevator) with parking located off the street. AE will have a lot of equipment to unload every night. Hannah is allergic to cats. Lodging should be near the location of the performance.
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