Recent content by Debra P. Holmes

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I have brand spanking new dmx cable and a bunch of the pins are bent and won't connect to my instruments. How do I safely straighten them? Please and thank you!

I found a book while looking for safety information for my Stagecraft class. I found this amazing book - The Health and Safety Guide for Film, TV, and Theater by Monona Rossol. (I found it on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1581158629/?tag=controlbooth-20) It talks about all of the osha...

Thank you all for your kind consideration!I really appreciate all of your advice.

Hi y'all!Yes, I've thought about this a bunch! @RonHebbard I design how I design and know what I would use and what I would not. I may not be here next year, so wanted to get opinions of what others like to have in a space. I've never arrived at a theatre (College/University level) that didn't...

When I arrived at my current University, we had 6 Source Four 26 degrees, 16 36 degrees, 5 Altman 6x12s, 20 PARs, 3 Ovation LED cyc lights. We purchased 3 LED PARs (Chauvet COLORado Tour Zooms) {not my choice}. I was just allowed to purchase 10 26 degrees and 10 PARs. I'm about to write a grant...

I have many books that deal with these topics that I've gathered over the years. I use Gillette (Theatrical Design and Production, an Introduction to Scenic Design, Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup - ISBN 978-0-07-338222-7) in Stagecraft (at University) and it's a good place to...

I've done this project a couple of times and the students absolutely love it. Pick a piece of music (3-5 min long) and with a rep plot, design a light show to go with the music that auto-follows (so they only hit the go button for the first que). I assign 10 cue numbers for each student (so...

Hi all,Thank you for your suggestions, I really appreciate it.Debra

Hi Paul,I poked at Capture Sweden and it appears that it has an export to .csv file that can be used in Lightwright or Excel.I'm in the same boat, actually! I have no drafting of the theatre space and not time to devote to drafting. But I only have about 35 instruments (that's another...

If you have a VectorWorks file of the design, it will export a list of instruments used in the plot. Perhaps that will help you to begin with?I use Excel and a Count If statement: =COUNTIF(A:A,"S4 26") where the column A contains Type of Instrument and "S4 26" is what I call all Source 4 26...

Good Morning, all!I have assigned some kind of paper in my intro to theatre course every time I have taught it as I strongly believe in the value of the written word's communication value. This semester, it was a DISASTER!!! I assigned a research paper comparing and contrasting the genre of...

Hi Kopernicus,I know is says you're of the male persuasion, but I found my last job through Facebook. . . https://www.facebook.com/groups/605933819524091/ There's also a group for folks of color and queer folks. I might suggest you join all three and see what's out there. Also...

Oh my goodness! Y'all have such great ideas! I really appreciate you sharing!!I went with magnetic paint (that works great) with white board paint over top - that looks a mess right now and of course I don't have enough paint, but we'll see how this all works out.