Fireworks is a hugely demanding area of the Events and Entertainment industry. Needless to say the Events industry is a stressful yet fulfilling one, attention to detail, scheduling and good planning are all essential elemnts to success. Our own drive is the whole process of supplying a Fireworks Display not just the Fireworks themselves. Of course we got into (thats the Smith Family / We) simply becuase of our love for Fireworks. My father and I spent many nights tinkering with fireworks and various effects. This “Tinkering” did not go un noticed and it vwasn’t long before the PTA at my school, asked us to take over the School Fireworks Display, I was Nine years old at the time and since then we have never looked back. Those eraly experimental years served me well giving me invaulable knowledge of Fireworks, hopw they work and the effects but more importantly I have gained the experience of what can go wrong. During my own time I have seen many tbings “go wrong” the skill has been to incorporate this into the show in a safe and more predictable way.

Fireworks by their very natutre do not want to be controlled, its our job as pyrotechnicians to take this powerful force and provide safe and pre determined conditions to enable a design to come through and communicate with the audience. The skill in my opinion is to create a journey, one which without them first realising, the crowd can follow and understand what it is you are trying to achieve. As my late Father told me, “when the audience clap they are clapping the fireworks not you”. Well to a certain extent this is true, yet we have worked to create our own fireworks from simple single shot formations and also by having our factories create “Our Fireworks”, these are our creations and we work with these and other items to put on our distinct shows.#

In my opinion and from the experience I have gained to me the perfect Firework Display has a number of elements, these are Rythm, Colour, Noise, Shape and Areas of Intensity. Now some of these, colour and noise for example are obvious, but its the use of these in terms of deliberate schemes and matching of colours and noise, sections of distint difference from those before and after that demonstrate to the crowd you are trying hard, not just “lighting fireworks”.

Most important to me, and this I have learned watching other displays, in particular ones in Europe is Rythm. Creating firing rythm, just like musoc gets the feet tapping, the hands moving, and if thats happening with out you actually thinking of it then all the better. This creates excitment so long as you build it correctly towards the Finale of the show.

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