Recent content by renegadeblack

So then should we also not hire actors in case they're going through a difficult time and flub lines or have a tiff with a fellow actor and refuse to be on stage with them? Let's be fair now.

Wait... Grog... is that our Grog?

I am going to guess that you tie the end of that rope to your fly ops' belt so that they can't wander off when they see something shiny... no? Well, I guess if there's a run away then you want them to be able to... well... runaway. Bad idea... I'm out of ideas.

Any word yet on the state of things?

The school from which I'll be graduation from tomorrow has an AWP as does every other high school I've worked at. Students have also been allowed to use the lift at every school that I've worked at. They require the students to be supervised ofcourse, and I suspect that it's more of an exception...

I've had the same problem, I think. I would open the program, I'd get the splash screen over the actual program and it would just hang forever.

But... but... but... I thought he really pulled the handkerchief out of his finger! I think that it's probably felt, I used brown silk once in a show (Willy Wonka) as a chocolate river, you could see through it a bit too well :S Felt wouldn't be as transparent, and this clearly wasn't. I also...

Really? You think that a laser is over-engineering? If you ask me, I'd say that a mousetrap with a line and what not is getting close to a Rube Goldberg, and starting to dissect an RC car certainly wouldn't be the easiest way to go. Use a CD burner (or perhaps BluRay :P) laser. Point and...

We used dry ice for a show once. It was hella fun. If you ever get the chance, freeze an orange in the dry ice and throw it on the pavement once it's frozen. It's pretty freaking cool. But don't let actors play with it, they'll put it in the toilet and flush it once they're done with it. I think...

Ain't that the truth. We rented a boom lift which we were assured would go down the aisles, but of course, didn't. So, there's the task of taking off a seat on the end of every freaking row. I'm glad that the rest of my crew realized this and organized things accordingly... I'm also glad that...

During a production my junior year of hs, I found myself LD/Master Electrician for the show and learned that none of my crew, whom I was friends with all of them, were willing to hang any lights because they were afraid they'd drop them. I also had a director who was breathing down my neck and...

We recently had to setup a video run for actors and crew to see what was going on on stage. We had a camera in the booth which we hooked up to coax and ran to a room in the adjacent hallway. I'd say it was about 100 feet that it ran and it worked fairly well. We just had that hooked up to the...

It really depends on how many MLs you're going to have. If it's going to be mostly conventionals and scrollers with maybe one or two MLs, then I'd say that the Element is the best way to go. I just got one last week at school (upgrade from an Innovator) and it's great so far.

We use, and all the shows that I've done elsewhere, have been entirely Rosco, with the exception of one shoe where we had a guest LD (who was a major PITA) who swore by LEE and left all of his gel behind and seems to have forgotten about it.

They do... I used one for some game console and a dvd player. The dvd player only had mono out and the game console had stereo out. When I plugged the dvd player in, it only came through the left being it had one out, and the game console was stereo. So I definitely see no reason not to use an...