Live event production knowledge
The audience sees the show.We explain
what makes it happen.
Behind The Show is a supplier-neutral knowledge platform for live event production, founded by Vinay Sharma. Understand the people, equipment and decisions that make a show work.
Start learningBehind a live show
Performance
- Artists
- Backline
- Instruments
Technical
- Sound
- Lighting
- Video
- Staging
- Power
Operations
- Crew
- Logistics
- Transport
- Scheduling
- Inventory
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Knowledge fields
Explore the work behind the show
Event Production
The planning, technical systems, people and operations that turn an event brief into a live show.
Production Management
The coordination of requirements, suppliers, schedules, people and production interfaces across a live event.
Live Sound
The systems, equipment and techniques used to capture, mix, monitor and reproduce live performance audio.
Technical Riders
Artist technical requirements, stage plots, input lists, substitutions and the production advance process.
Backline
The instruments and performance equipment artists rely on.
Learning path
Learn Event Production
What Is Live Event Production?
Understand how people, equipment, systems and planning come together to make a live event happen.
What Is Production Advance?
See how requirements, responsibilities and unresolved questions become an agreed working plan before the event.
What Is a Run of Show?
The programme becomes deliverable when its segments, transitions and dependencies are understood together.
For event planners
Planning an event?
You don't need to know every piece of equipment. You need to know what questions to ask.
Understand the production decisions behind sound, video, lighting, staging, backline, power, schedules and technical requirements before speaking to suppliers.
Start with the production basics Build an Event Production Brief26 Years Behind Live Events
Much of live-production knowledge is learned backstage, during load-ins, soundchecks, changeovers and shows.
Behind The Show exists to document that knowledge, explain it clearly and make it useful to the next person who needs it.
Created by Vinay SharmaAbout Behind The Show