Aug 2016 | Floriade Terrain Haarlemmermeer | Mysteryland
Mysteryland 2016 is the world’s longest-running electronic music festival, founded in 1993. So, this year, it will celebrate its 23rd edition. Three years ago, it transformed into a weekend festival offering a vast terrain for 10,000 visitors from 50 different countries to camp.
There are 16 different areas to discover, set across three day and night spectacles, and over 100,000 visitors are invited to find out 250 DJs and live acts on breathtaking stages.
For many years, the Backbone team has been involved in Mysteryland. With colleagues working in various features as a Production Producer, Overlay Manager, Technical Design, Overlay Design Manager Techni, and Crowd Services Manager. As Production Manager, Backbone worked with an entire production team to budget responsibly. Besides, they translated Mysteryland’s creative ideas into reality by setting up the task budgets. In 2016, the Production Manager was a full-time employee and a Backbone Production Manager. The Technical Producer and Designer(s) transformed the stage designs into a technically realistic construction tool. He provided the various suppliers with the technical features to offer this opportunity or develop the technical aspects and details. The Mysteryland team produced them from multiple disciplines.
As a Technical Manufacturer, Backbone accompanied the entire technical process and the opening of technical facilities in pre-production and on-site export.
So, the Overlay Manager(s) were responsible for the site’s space layout. And setting up and purchasing overlay facilities such as fencing, power, water supplies, tents, rigs, toilets, floors, signage cues, etc. The Overlay Manager was also responsible for driving the various overlay providers.