Into its ninth year, IGNITE! Music Festival gives students a chance to experience what running an event is like. Attention is usually paid to the talents onstage, but the students behind the scenes also have significant roles to play.
CAPTURING THE MOMENTS: Nurul Amirah and Muhammad Asyraaf from the video operations team provide live coverage footage of the action on stage. This is then broadcast on the stage’s screen for the audience to get a better view. (PHOTO: DAVID YIP)LINING UP: Technical Head Ong Li Wen takes note of the positioning of each band’s equipment, their stage layout and where they will be standing during their performance. She also takes note of the number of lines, also known as channels, and type of microphones each band will be using.(PHOTO: MOUNISNI RAJ)BACK FOR MORE: Even though Muhammad Naufal (first on the left) and Ameerah Sumait (second from the right) are alumni, they came back to help out with IGNITE! Music festival as part of the studio team with the help of Qistina Q’Ain (second from the left). Judith Ann Kumar (first from the right), also an alumni, returned as a Project Supervisor for media publications. (PHOTO: DAVID YIP)
HIT THAT NOTE: Nur Syaherah Bte Yusman, a member of the stage crew for the festival, adjusts the monitor level on Take Two artist Paddy Jonathan Ong’s monitor based on his preference. Monitors are speakers used by artists to hear themselves when they perform. (PHOTO: MOUNISNI RAJ)ON COMMAND: Keith Tan, the stage manager for this year’s IGNITE! Music Festival, sends information and instructions to the crew in-charge of programming lights and sound mixes about the change in lights for each performance. (PHOTO: MOUNISNI RAJ)PERFORMANCE CHECK: The media crew takes charge of all footage at this year’s festival. Muhammad Rifaee Bin Sidek, 19, joined IGNITE!’s media crew this year after filming under RP’s Film Fac-tory Interest Group (IG) for two years. With the knowledge he gained from being the Vice President of his IG in 2015, Rifaee teaches his fellow crew members the proper format and checks their equipment settings before filming. (PHOTO: MOUNISNI RAJ)WRAP IT UP: IGNITE! volunteers recovering and keeping the red tape seen all over Republic Polytechnic which was used to promote the music festival in school. (PHOTO: DAVID YIP)SHUT IT DOWN: Muhammad Farhan, takes down the tent at the IGNITE! Village which played host to several stalls such as Livehigh, and Dawn & Dusk. (PHOTO: DAVID YIP)
