So I was wondering if I could get a general opinion on if I did the right actions or not.
So I was doing lighting for the 2015 Mr. Wonderful pageant at my high school. At very beginning of the show all the boys (15) do a intro dance thats choreographed to a mix of music. So I was told to do lighting that went with the music. When I was finished programming we did a full run of the dance. For my first cue I originally had a soloet but the director said that she wanted face light in the first cue on them so went back and added it in, which was the only note that the director of the show gave me. My second cue was all blue with yellow spots coming from our two Mac 250’s which was about 10 seconds long, the next cue was just two spots from the movers on a tilting back and forward effect which lasted about two seconds then the next cue was just a strobe which lasted about one second, and after that all my other cues had face light in them. We ran the dance many other times throughout the rehearsals and was given nothing to change. When we ran it for a real audience I got to my 2nd cue (all blue) the auditorium manager started yelling at me to add more face light. My cues were not timed so I was faced with missing my cues and adding light which would of of also ruined the lighting for some of the cues by covering up some of the color stuff that I had in, or sticking with my cues and waiting about 7ish seconds for the cue that had face light in it. With having to make a quick decision I stuck with my cues and just waited. He soon leaned over me and just add the light himself. Now our auditorium guy does have a tendency to get angry really easy, and sadly right before the show started he had gotten a phone call from someone saying that one of his best friends had just passed away.
After all that a few days later I found out that he had kicked me off has lead lighting designer for our spring musical for my actions. Were my actions justified but not listening to someone who really had nothing to do with the production, who had also seen the lighting for the dance before and said that he liked it. He even told me that we were not going to change any of the cues when someone had requested a change of a cue the day of the show.
What do you think?
So I was doing lighting for the 2015 Mr. Wonderful pageant at my high school. At very beginning of the show all the boys (15) do a intro dance thats choreographed to a mix of music. So I was told to do lighting that went with the music. When I was finished programming we did a full run of the dance. For my first cue I originally had a soloet but the director said that she wanted face light in the first cue on them so went back and added it in, which was the only note that the director of the show gave me. My second cue was all blue with yellow spots coming from our two Mac 250’s which was about 10 seconds long, the next cue was just two spots from the movers on a tilting back and forward effect which lasted about two seconds then the next cue was just a strobe which lasted about one second, and after that all my other cues had face light in them. We ran the dance many other times throughout the rehearsals and was given nothing to change. When we ran it for a real audience I got to my 2nd cue (all blue) the auditorium manager started yelling at me to add more face light. My cues were not timed so I was faced with missing my cues and adding light which would of of also ruined the lighting for some of the cues by covering up some of the color stuff that I had in, or sticking with my cues and waiting about 7ish seconds for the cue that had face light in it. With having to make a quick decision I stuck with my cues and just waited. He soon leaned over me and just add the light himself. Now our auditorium guy does have a tendency to get angry really easy, and sadly right before the show started he had gotten a phone call from someone saying that one of his best friends had just passed away.
After all that a few days later I found out that he had kicked me off has lead lighting designer for our spring musical for my actions. Were my actions justified but not listening to someone who really had nothing to do with the production, who had also seen the lighting for the dance before and said that he liked it. He even told me that we were not going to change any of the cues when someone had requested a change of a cue the day of the show.
What do you think?