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Just like a f-nut or j-nut is a set screw (and when I do a tech article on focusing a light, I will refer to it as a set screw, not a f-nut or j-nut).
And they would be wrong. They are making stuff up, likely from poor training. When I am focusing a truss and am told to spin the bottle to verticle, I grab the porcelin and rotate it. It is a long known industry slang and when discussing instruments then a seperate paragraph should be added for references to slang. If you are trying to teach young techs then you have to make them aware of what they will hear in the wild.
They are not wrong, nor are they making stuff up! Lamp/bulb/globe/bottle/bubble can all mean the same thing. I believe "bottle" is particularly prevalent in Britland and territories.
OK, yes Hollywood has a host of terms found nowhere else I'm sure.And they would be wrong. They are making stuff up, likely from poor training. When I am focusing a truss and am told to spin the bottle to verticle, I grab the porcelin and rotate it. It is a long known industry slang and when discussing instruments then a seperate paragraph should be added for references to slang. If you are trying to teach young techs then you have to make them aware of what they will hear in the wild.
When I was first put in charge of an event, an international televised tennis event featuring the top s in the world, I was meeting with the LD from the lighting company. They were going to hang two eighty ft trusses for TV but they were doing it with the leftovers after they had set up Lake Placid Olympics, so they were going to use my in house dimmers. The first question he asked was how many K were my dimmers. Well he was a R&R guy, I was theatre so I had no idea what he was talking about. I had always called dimmers 2400 watt dimmers not 2.4K dimmers. I asked him if he explained what he was asking I would give him an answer. Once I knew the term we got along great, he even offered me a job.
The point is, I was put in a position knowing the information but not the slang. Both pieces of the puzzle is important.
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