Recent content by adambattey

Hi Guys and Gals, I am trying to source some little number plaques (you know the ones I mean?) to put on the seats in our auditorium to make selling tickets/navigation easier. Does anybody know of any companies that provide these from within the UK? Cheers, Adam

Hey Guys, Does anybody know if there is a score available for the Willy Russell musical play Our Day Out? I'm currently working from the scribbled scores in the back of the methuin copy of the script and am struggling. Cheers, Adam

Hi Guys, My work is looking at getting a digital effects processor and I am leaning towards the Alesis Microverb 4 at the moment. Anyone have one of these already? I'm just looking for a user opinion of it that isn't just a sales pitch! Cheers, Adam

Hi Guys, I'm trying to figure out a way in which I can play a video behind a shape... Basically I am projecting an image of the inside of a minibus where you can see out of the windows... and i would like to have a video of country roads and things 'outside' the window. I set it up very...

I work in educational settings designing sets for productions in Secondary Schools and Universities and do find that scale models help me visualise the spaces that i use on a regular basis... However most of the time i do it in [what i think to be] a fairly unconventional method. When building a...

Hi Guys, I am having issues with my employer in terms of assess in the rig and other 'high' things in the theatre space/school hall. (At the moment I can only hire in the most akward scaffolding tower in the world for 3 hours at a time when i have more than 4 things wrong up there!) I am...

Ha ha, I had kindo figured that one out! lol! But someone needed to say it! It is indeed plugged into the dimmer. I didn't have chance before coming home to check whether turning off the dimmers would stop it so i just unplugged it. I also haven't done anything in terms of re-profiling it...

Hey Guys, A few weeks ago I gave a mirrorball rotator to a collegue so that he could change the plug on it to allow me to have it plugged into our lighting rig and the motor turned on and off via the control desk. Today he gave it me back and I have plugged it in - it rotates just fine....but...

Ha ha ha! I may have to hurt people if we start talking HSM!!!

Thanks for the advice guys....and I'm glad it's not just me who thinks that this is all a bit rediculous! I'm new here and apparently this is the norm and has been for the past 5 years! Every kid who auditions gets a part - a practice I really don't like. They have done Little Shop of Horrors...

Hi guys, I am currently pulling my hair out (as are the rest of the department here at the school where I work) trying to think of a musical that we can perform in march next year. Does anyone know of a list of what musicals are available for performance (licences etc) so that we can look...

Hey, My name is Adam and last year i graduated with a degree in drama and been employed as the Music and Drama Technician in a secondary school that is a specialist in visual and performing arts. This involves purchasing and maintaining the equipment in both departments, designing light...