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Hey all, My HS is staging Les Miserables, and we are trying to project a powerpoint of the show's locales onto a screen above the stage. There are two options here: a) Projector at back of house, pointed up at roughly a 30deg angle to hit a screen above the main curtain - throw distance...

Thanks for the advice, Footer. I feel a lot better knowing that this is what the interviewers are looking for.

I was involved in the ordering of the content in the runsheet, specifically. I had worked on the show the year prior, so the ASM asked for my help in recalling how the show was run the previous year, so I suppose that document is the one I've had the most impact on. Footer, I'm thinking that...

Good day! I will be heading off to a portfolio review at BU soon, and am looking to include material from a show I just closed - but am a little conflicted. For the show I served as the Production Assistant, and since it took place as an internship at a large theatre in the area, I am...

Hi All, My HS is putting on a production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast and we've just recently built the castle. The masking setup in our auditorium is: Main curtain (traveler) Two legs Back curtain (traveler) The two legs are angled such that the stage looks roughly like a...

In my HS's auditorium, we currently have 16 ETC S4 Jrs. On about 4-5 of these fixtures, the pins on the bottom of the lamps are scorched and burnt. (See attached photo) What could be causing this? Is it a bad dimmer channel, or a power problem? I feel like it couldn't be a power problem...

@n1ist - I always shut off the circuit breakers from the packs before soldering, if I need to do more, please let me know! =)@Studio - The wall plug I am referring to is THE place in the auditorium to connect to.@Bill - System is new within the decade, installed maybe 2005? No one is quite...

That's a good question, actually. Because I am reasonably sure that we are using DMX here, but the board was set to use MDX before I began the repairs. The cable we are using is 5-pin XLR.Dimmers are NSI 2408CD (three of them)Edit - And also because the board needs to be plugged into the...

First, some background. The wall plug for my school's DMX line into the dimmers actually fell out of the wall years ago, so what we have started doing is to simply pick up the wall plug, place it near the board, and then connect the board to the plug. Lazy, yes. Irresponsible, yes - but it...

I'd actually be interested in knowing if its possible to take control of house lights if they are currently wired to a wall switch

I'm afraid I was misunderstood in my original post. For the show that I was referring to, no mixing of microphones needed to take place. For the upcoming show, Beauty and the Beast, we will have two sound ops: one running effects (will be on comms) and one who is mixing the lav mics (will...

Thanks for the advice shiben, I will give the local Polytechnic School a ring on Monday and see if they'd be willing to show me how to deal with this problem. I've ran a search on maintaining lekos and found a lot of articles on generic fixture maintenance, but do you know of anything specific...

Basically, I am trying to determine if the fixtures themself are at fault or is it the outlet that we are plugging them into - without risking good equipment in the test.Thanks

Apologies for bring up an old topic but I thought it'd be better than starting a new one on the same topic...Is there an easy way for my to check the validity of the power supply of the fixture? Or how about that the fixture is receiving the correct voltage/amps? I know my school has...

High school show with student actors, technicians, stage managers - but with adult director Thank you for the great advice about my situation - I don't mean it as a controlling gesture. You are absolutely right about it being important as it places all the show's artistic decisions with the...