Just make sure you're prepared for the show. It takes much more than just a lot of expensive, quality gear to pull off school shows. Your music selections need to be on-spot, you need to be extremely comfortable using the mic in a casual manner, you should be confident in everything you say and do and you should highly consider event additives to enhance your party experience.
Take my dusk show for example. For all intensive purposes, it'd be a normal school dance experience. Theres music, theres lighting and theres a DJ. But when I add in the beach balls, snow and bubble machines, confetti canons and hundreds of glow sticks, it becomes much more than a dance, it becomes an event, one people remember. It doesn't matter that my light show consists of 90% products that cost less than $500 each, or that all I'm really doing is blowing theatrical snow fluid and tissue paper streamers all over the kids. It's about the show presentation.
Regardless of the direction you take, ensure you do a lot of research first. Doing so helped me create (imo) one of the most unique events I've ever experienced.
I've done school dances with no problems before, and music selection is no problem for me. Some fun requests, and lots of new poppin' requests usually make up a night.
When I first started schools I used...Fab 4s and 4 old school Par cans on a 10ft truss.
Switched to 4 old school par cans, and two intimidators and one insigna on the 10ft truss.
Then went to 4 LED par 64s with a quad gem and a dual gem.
I looked at Qspots last year, and wasn't ready for them big lights yet.
Now...learning I could potentially be the #1 school dj in our IMMEDIATE area in the next three years, based on some local changes, this would be a time to really dive into the market, and make some big business moves.
If I am going to go into the school market more exclusively, I feel what I have is not adequate enough to do what they students have been used to seeing at their events. And they do pay quite well for these events, so the market is available.
If I sit on the sidelines, I quite simply will allow other djs to sneak into the market and chip away at income potential. The time is right this fall.
The local cool thing now is dance boxes, which I have not even considered yet. But again, now that the main school dj has moved several hours away, and his focus has moved more so away to bigger attractive events, there is an opportunity I am aware of, and I really need to make this thing happen.
Pretty crazy how fast things can change in the biz.
