For freelance technical directors, production managers and agency producers who need to know what a venue can really do before they quote, spec or rig. Use it on the recce visit, six to eight weeks before the show, and again by phone or email with the venue if you cannot get there in person.
What it catches
- Upload speed measured at the gallery position, not in the sales office.
- The lift that is smaller than the road case, or the door narrower than the LED crate.
- Air conditioning that drowns a lavalier mic, and blackout that does not close.
- Rigging points with no safe working load on paper.
- Radio and mobile dead spots between the stage and the gallery.
How to adapt it
Take a tape measure, a laptop with a speed-test tool, a phone on each major network and a camera. Photograph every answer and file the photos with the completed list. For a small boardroom event, skip the rigging and floor-loading sections. For an awards show with LED and several suppliers, add a power line for each supplier. Send the finished list back to the venue as a written record of what they told you, so that a changed answer on show week is easy to spot.
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Send the client brief and floorplan to Production Office and get back the kit list, signal flow, crew plan and schedule, checked by a broadcast engineer, with nothing of ours on it.