This is a bespoke SMS voting system for Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision, it's available for amateur productions.
Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision is an interactive musical theatre experience unlike any other that celebrates everything we love (to love) about Eurovision. Audience members participate in a real life vote by text message.
The professional production of Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision uses SMS voting and I provide a similar service to amateur productions dedicated to, and designed for, this one show providing professional visuals for your performance and immediate feedback backstage of what points each international representative needs to award.
Real-Time Voting
Votes are counted instantly, so you can give the cast a sneak peak backstage of who's winning if you want, and reports are produced of each night's voting ready to be given to the cast to read.
It's up to you whether you want to let your audience vote more than once, it's all a bit of fun, and our voting system has been used smoothly with up to 2,700 votes being received in a window only of only a few minutes (imagine counting them by hand!)
Call The Audience
We even provide a means of calling a random audience member (the script calls for this, honest!) without the cast or company knowing their phone number (your audience's mobile numbers remain private at all times)
Marketing Opportuntiy
You can text your audience members after the show, or in advance of your next production, to obtain feedback or promote upcoming events or future productions by your company.
Past Productions
Our SMS Voting solution has been well received by many amateur productions of Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision including; Studio32 Theatre, KBCS, The Apollo Players and Harlequin: Eastwood Theatre For Youth
What do I need?
This is a hosted service, it doesn't require any hardware to be installed at your venue. You retrieve the results using a web-connected device (this could be a laptop computer or even the ASM's smartphone). If you want to use the pre-made slides for your results then you will need a computer to project these. I would recommend one of the following (in order of preference);
- Mac running Keynote
This is the preferred option as I provide a Keynote file which is updated automatically from the internet with the appropriate slides - Mac (without Keynote)
A PDF of all the slides is available this can be downloaded if you don't have Keynote and this can be run in Preview as a full-screen slideshow, although you will lose the transitions - Something else (e.g. Windows/PowerPoint combination)
The slides can be downloaded as individual PNG files and copied/pasted into PowerPoint or similar software, although this is more time consuming.
If you're using the fantastic QLab from Figure53 for the rest of your show then you can download the individual PNGs and manually replace the slides in your QLab file each performance - this is a bit more effort than just using Keynote but it keeps everything in one place.
Next Steps
Got a production of Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision coming up ? Then please eMail me hello@rmlx.co.uk regarding this service. Our friends at Baby Grand Productions also have a full selection of visuals and video clips to accompany the performances in Eurobeat and can provide professional video services to local productions.
Got another idea?
This is an example of the type of bespoke services I build, when nothing off the shelf is quite right for the purpose, if you need something like this for your own application, please get in touch.
