#technical theater

[t0bib0bi]

james ortiz you are so special to me. the way he talks about his craft and the way he's so clearly in love with and passionate about what he does is so beautiful.

he was also a theatre technician and that immediately makes him one of my most favoritest people

james ortiz you have my eternal love and respect

sincerely,

a theatre technician who specializes in lighting design

[callicco1]

anderperry headcanon that neil was the actor and todd joined stagecraft

[argyropoeiaa]

please tell me there are professional tech theater people who are as insane about the content and concepts of different musicals the same way an ‘actor’ might be i just finished my last show and im so fucking scared of entering a world in which everyone just doesn’t care as much as i do about the Material

“oh i do it because i like technology” “oh i do it because i like electronics” What about the people who do it because they like musicals and don’t like acting. Hhuh

[stagefoot]

I would like to present my solution to tell my younger techs not to use a cable.

(it’s broken but still running through the snake box so we can’t get it out without help)

Love it. Short, sweet, and functional! I especially like the doubling up of the tape and the zip tie lmao

[dip-was-here]

I need somebody to write an enemies to lovers rom-com where a set designer and a lighting designer hate each other because their creative visions keep clashing but they end up falling for each other and bonding over their love of storytelling

[grayv393]

I made some shadow puppets for a show I did recently, and finally got pictures so I can share them! I really enjoyed figuring out how to express what I was thinking with just a silhouette, and how to make the puppet in a way that’s structurally stable and can move as intended.

This is my baby, the hydra. There are five single heads, and then the three attached. On the single heads, the neck is a fabric tube, which the puppeteer’s arm would go through. Then there are two straps used to keep the head in place. On the combined, it’s just fabric strips attached to the head and a dowel, which is attached to the wood. The puppeteer just holds the plank.

These are two of the people. I had fun figuring out the girl’s design.

This is a hospital bed. I didn’t make the bed, but I made the pillow and girl’s head. It was hard to find a position that looked realistic but also made it easy to tell what it was supposed to be.

The apple tree was pretty simple. We had an apple puppet, so I copied that for the cutout.

R2-D2 and C-3PO were tricky. I couldn’t make them super big because of how close they had to be to the light. But they’re also so detailed, it was hard to choose which features to include.

I didn’t make this one, but I repaired it too many times. I eventually took a coat hanger and bent it to fit the necks, so that they’d have more stability.

That’s it, thanks for looking at my stuff :3

[bagel-sable]

Intro!

hey!!

so ive been on here a little while and I figured it was finally time for me to make an intro post lmao

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Name: I mostly go by either Barney or Bagel, but you could really call me whatever. AMP is something I use to label my art sometimes so I guess that counts too. but you can really call me whatever you want lmao

Identity: Genderqueer Pan (still workin this out)! I use any pronouns

Interests/Things I like: Worldbuilding/Fictional Storytelling, History and Anthropology, Theater Tech, DREDGE (The Fish Game), Zoology, White Knuckle, Most Cartoons (TOH, Amphibia, Gravity Falls, Hilda, Dead End; Paranormal Park, Scavenger's Reign, Haunted Hotel, The Ghost and Molly McGee, TADC to name a few off the top of my head), Indie Music, Reading, TTRPGs, Collecting Plushies

DMS/Asks: My asks are open always always! My DMs are only open to people I have interacted with previously outside of DMs :)

i'm kinda just here to be silly and meet silly people lol

( ^ this goober is Bagel, he's kinda my persona? just a scrungus I feel)

[lunalighting512]

Any tips for musicals? This is my first to program (tho I acted in one 2 years ago)

Abuse pallets, make tons of focus, colour, beam and use presets. You going to want all your show data at your fingertips. use the hell out of the scene function so you can mark up your cues. Go to tab 4 (Direct Selects) to view banks of your pallets, for more info see this article: https://www.etcconnect.com/WebDocs/Controls/EosFamilyOnlineHelp/en/Content/10_Palettes/PALETTES.htm?tocpath=Palettes

ALSO GO TO SETUP -> DEVICE -> FACE PANEL AND DISSABLE THE GM!! You 100% do not want to hit "blackout" or nudge the fader mid show.

I mainly do this before a show: Prepare pallets before the show, for your intelligent fixtures make some basic colour pallets best to go to the colour picker in Eos (tab 27) and then select "standard colors" at which point use a group to select all of your RGB+ fixtures and the record one pallet for each colour so Red, Green, Orange, etc… best to record the fully saturated colours to save space, you should start at pallet 1 so you have access to these first, I leant this from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOV8Vn4rewE

Group my fixtures, I mainly do this by where they are so if I had some RGB pars on LX1 I would call it "RGB Pars | LX1" etc… I would also group by fixtures depending on how quickly you need access to them. For fixtures you use a lot best to use a smaller number as to save keystrokes you don't want you most used profiles on group 100 something.

To see more info on scenes: https://www.etcconnect.com/WebDocs/Controls/EosFamilyOnlineHelp/en/Content/12_Cues_and_Cue_Lists/04_Cue_Attributes/Scenes.htm

Also update your Eos fam console to its latest version: https://www.etcconnect.com/Eos-Software/

This is a very small amount of what I do to prep for a show and everyone's programming style is different so don't take this as 100% what you should do, this is just the minimum I do for a show.

If you want anymore help please feel free to DM me.

I hope this helps?