Is it encouraging or frightening when the techs tell you that you’re hiring the most gear they’ve ever hired out at once? The answer is a little bit of both. When we initially organised the order I don’t think we understood the enormity of what we had got ourselves into. The setup itself took a few hours but ultimately was free of any issues albeit some minor snags. Once we had settled on the two rooms for the installation we knew that they were going to be quite bright so we wanted to experiment with using blacks. On the day we decided on using them to create an installation space rather than just to block out the sunlight. In doing this we created a defined installation space and were able to remove this space from the actual physical location. This also made the experience easier for the audience to explore the space, knowing exactly what was considered part of the installation.

The Dedo lights were successful in providing the desks with enough light so content could be read and understood whilst leaving the room in enough darkness to evoke the setting, the middle of the night. The Lights were useful in that we could point them at significant content which is an idea we could have explored if we had have curated more content. Our installation is fairly minimal, with essentially all the content significant to the story so the lights weren’t used in this fashion. However, if we had filled the desks with more stuff we could have used more dedos to point out the essential content.