What we did

• Consultancy for the project took place over an 18-month period, during which we met with project managers from the Council, teachers and representatives from the school and the local community.
• We provided all the schools with full drama school facilities (lighting, sound and AV systems) and provided the secondary schools with cinema systems (including 7m-wide projection screens) and fully-featured sound recording studios.
• The project involved a number of technical challenges, including how to get spaces to function as both cinemas and theatres. To solve this challenge, we installed sophisticated controllers that allowed the configuration of each secondary school’s system to be changed from a cinema set-up to a proper theatre set-up, thus providing ease of use for the end users.
• In the primary schools the halls where performances take place are also used for ball games. We therefore developed innovative lifting mechanisms that hoisted lighting rigs out of harm’s way at the flick of a switch.