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Do you think for stage management it is beneficial to also be fairly competent at operating a sound and/or lighting desk?
YES YES!!!!!
You should know how to go forward and back in cues, jump to certain cues and correctly turn the board on and off.
These things can be life savers in a pinch.
~Admin
All of these function are exceptionally simple on most machines so just ask if you don’t know how to do it.
~Lighting Buddy
50 Technical Theatre asks. Let’s give this a try, ask away!
1. What is your concentration?
2. Favourite Musical?
3. Favourite Drama?
4. Favourite Comedy?
5. Favourite Opera?
6. Least Favourite Musical?
7. Least Favourite Drama?
8. Least Favourite Comedy?
9. Least Favourite Opera?
10. Favourite show to watch?
11. Least Favourite show to watch?
12. Favourite show to work?
13. Least Favourite show to work?
14. Funniest theatre story?
15. Scariest theatre story?
16. What’s a theatre related inside joke you have?
17. Favourite theatre ghost you have worked with?
18. Least Favourite theatre ghost you have worked with?
19. Best audio experience?
20. Best lighting experience?
21. Best costume experience?
22. Best props experience?
23. Best set experience?
24. Best stage management experience?
25. Worst audio experience?
26. Worst lighting experience?
27. Worst costume experience?
28. Worst props experience?
29. Worst set experience?
30. Worst stage management experience?
31. Longest tech rehearsal?
32. Tell us a theatre story.
33. How did you get in to theatre?
34. How did you get in to technical theatre?
35. Have/would you ever act?
36. Have/would you ever direct?
37. Longest show you’ve ever worked?
38. Shortest show you’ve ever worked?
39. Favourite tool?
40. How much black clothing do you have?
41. How long have you been doing technical theatre?
42. Best/Worst Lower school experience?
43. Best/Worst High school experience?
44. Best/Worst University experience?
45. Best/Worst Community experience?
46. Best/Worst Professional experience?
47. Any advice?
48. Best Director/TD you have worked with?
49. How/When did you realize you lived theatre tech?
50. Tech week survival tips?
Q for lighting buddy if they're still around: Do you prefer LED's or Source 4's?
LB’s answer: I prefer incandescent lamps because I feel that LEDs cannot yet match much of the color spectrum that Gels are capable of.
Gotta love the power of technology
47 and 50 for the tech asks. Going into tech week of a show that’s already proven to be hell. Thank you!
47. Any advice?
Communication! Communication! Communication! Communication!
Make sure you can communicate well with those around you so you are all on the same page.
Stage Management can be really difficult sometimes and it can be easy to get caught up in everything. Learn to stay calm and not let your emotions take over. Remember people are human and make mistakes.
Lay down the ‘law’ and how you run rehearsals with actors the very first rehearsal. Stick up for yourself in a tactful way. Do not tell people to bug off but rather call them on their behavior in a professional manner. Perhaps get the whole cast together before a rehearsal and go over respecting one another again if you have to down the road.
Have an ally above you and the director you can report to incase things get sticky that can act as a mediator if needed.
Prep your ASM’s.
Show them how your keys work. Which keys go to what doors. Show them how to turn on the lights. How to prep the stage. Show them your checklists and where they are.
How to run the show if you get the flu.
How to run a rehearsal if you get hit by a car.
Even though I am totally the SM who will show up to rehearsal / show if I am severely injured, have the flu (I’d wear a mask, I am not a barbarian).
Go over with them what to do if there is a fire, the show has to stop, someone dangerous is in the building. Someone has a medical emergency in the house.
All the most common “What if” situations you can think of.
Prep them.
Find your stress reliever (that won’t harm you!)
My best stress reliever is spending time in a quiet setting.
I like to work out to relieve stress too.
Sometimes I would vent to my awesome roommate’s who would let me just word vomit even though they didn’t really understand what the words I was saying meant (theatre terms that is).
Or watching Bob’s Burgers or something else along that line and cuddling with my fur child.
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head right now!
50. Tech week survival tips?
Oh gosh….
I always prioritized sleep. I am one of those people that needs at least 6 hours of sleep a night to NOT become a grouchy Gremlin.
Try to stick to water. I don’t drink a lot of coffee, and I find drinking too much caffeine makes you have to tinkle all the time and dehydrates you. The last thing you want while trying to put together cues is being dehydrated and grouchy because you drank too much caffeine. But obviously don’t quit cold turkey if you drink caffeine all the time and everyday. That will just give you a really bad headache.
Have power bars with you. I am hypoglycemic so if I go a certain amount of time without eating I get REALLY bad migraines and super shaky.
I love Luna bars (#NotSponsered) they have many tasty flavors and keep you somewhat full between meal breaks.
Encourage breaks. I like to take a 10 minute break every two hours. At all the theatre’s I have SM’d at, the SM gets to decide when lunch and breaks are.
Don’t be afraid to move people along. I once had a director stare at light cue for a solid 3 minutes before saying anything about if they liked it or not. So don’t be afraid to say “what do you think of that?” “Does this look okay to you?” and “Are we good to move on?”
Take deep breaths, think of how much the audience will enjoy your show and remember theatre is a collaboration.
Hope this helps! <3
So before I turned on my dashboard unfucker (because I keep trying to get the other one to work), I noticed that you can rearrange the tabs at the top, except for some reason one of the tabs is locked.
Now obviously this isn't an issue for me since I don't want the 'for you' stuff in the first place, but why is it locked?
It gets better though. Because for newer blogs it's the opposite.
Newer blogs can't move the most irritating tab at all. Why is it locked?! Why give us the ability to move our tabs and then lock the one everyone is going to want to move?! Why lock any of the tabs in the first place?!
Tumblr Staff: We can do whatever we want and the userbase eventually stops complaining!
Users: -Share around ways to change the website so it remains usable since staff refuses to listen to us and no one’s made a viable alternative yet-
Here are the two solutions I’ve found so far for this latest attempt to make the website suck.
via galacticsources
via dragongirlsnout
Some people were talking about some drama on here that I apparently missed, so I went scrolling through my feed to find it. And eventually I was like, why? So I stopped.