what it’s like being a 17 y/o theatre tech for school
let’s just start with what the hell fuck
no seriously what the hell fuck
we do e v e r y t h i n g
assembly? yeah let us just set out 700 odd chairs, somehow get our equipment that doesn’t work to magically work during that event whether one of us has to hold the wire in ~the place~ for the entire thing or not.
one time during a lunchtime showcase a kid kicked a speaker, yes, he kicked a speaker to look metal during his screamo performance
let me tell you he got a piece of my damn mind
he didn’t i can’t do that i would probably die if i did
no matter how many times we tell people if you are using a wireless mic PLEASE do not go infront of the speaker the feedback noise will happen
they do it anyway
it’s a nightmare chorus from the audience going “can the people on sound actually do their job?”
YES I CAN OKAY
enough cables? hell no, half of hours don’t work anyway or have been stolen by fellow students
( thanks guys real cool )
so annual musical rolls round early may and the ninth circle of HELL decides to open up it’s doors
i’m talking like actors yelling because they accidentally broke mics
us yelling because the actors are yelling
having to run on stage with a handheld temporary mic because a microphone broke MID PERFORMANCE
a funeral at some point probably
lighting board glitched out, temporary blackout for a solid 2 minutes
missed a sound effect cue, aaaaah yeah i think you can guess what unfolded
everyone ignoring our “please tell us a week in advance” rule and expecting us to do these extravagant set ups in less than a day
there are 7 of us who actually do stuff in the team the rest just dont show up
2 people doing a 10 person job? hhhhhhhH
i no longer have emotions, i have transcended stress
right so we finally convinced the school to give us a keycard that lets us around the school but we only have one,,,,,
the tech team has 16 people in it ( when everyone shows up )
when we set up for events we need more than one
yet the head students get given 7 key cards
i GET that we aren’t professionals but seriously it’s frustrating
so myself and my friend were both running for head tech 2018 and we compromised and became co-head techs because we work well together
i’m glad we did because shit what the fuck
mine and my co head tech’s hours from this year were logged at 250, thats the amount of hours we remembered to log, there is probably another 50 we didn’t log
we weren’t even head techs at this point
sometimes it felt like the school had forgotten we were students first and foremost
it got to the point where if i actually was in class, the teacher called it a miracle
i missed a lot of class
one more thing
the tech team does all of this v o l u n t a r i l y
