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A Loading dock Or "Dock", is a area normaly very close to the stage where trucks can loaded and unloaded. Some venues have the Dock undercover.

Ok, I will stop with the mothers club.The Fresnell was pulled off the LX bar by the US Set however this was during the 4th show. The Fresnell has not returned to service.Worksafe have been called to both venues.

IndigoFire, they are not snapped! NickJones, You will be there soon.But Yes, the venue I do a lot of shows in is a venue with many problems however, Heads up on stage, Fres coming in is just sad face.....

Welcome to the Booth. As everyone knows, Australian techs are the best techs in the world for a number of reasons that we wont go into right now.So what type of shows do you do or are you a venue tech?

I am involved in a professinal theatre and our theater ops administators just use Microsft Office Visio. Its easy for setting out a plot in a neat format. If you did have the money, I would say WYSIWG for the win, however its very pricey.

Storey Time :)I was doing my 1st new media projection production show thingy in a youth circus show. Anyway, we wore in a booth away from the stage with the backstage loop. We had a 2nd camera on promtside incase one camera failed. We wore watching the promtside camera and the kid from the...

I'm in high school and I like being called a Technician (or "Venue Technician").Smarter then a Roadie, More Professinal then a Techie

Sound Cue Systems is the best program for what you are looking for. It now supports videos with Version 10 and runs on Windows. You can create cue lists with audio and/or video. It isn't that pricey even.Sound Cue System for theatre sound effects and music cues

A Loading dock Or "Dock", is a area normaly very close to the stage where trucks can loaded and unloaded. Some venues have the Dock undercover.

I would buy it, something to do during Dance school shows :P

I was doing a show in a theater, and i was sitting in the Tech Office and there was a call to the stage so another tech and my self get up to go onstage. I basicly walked out the door and hit my head on the 1st Aid box that was mounted on the wall. I then fell to the floor. I then got up to the...

Welcome to the Booth. Rochem, 150 cues are stranded for a high school shows with inhouse techs. Its different when using venues.Edit: Stranded for us Aussies

I basicly run my school thearter with a mate of mine and we have just given up on getting paid for anything we do. THere are times where we will do a school day (8 till 3) and then do a tech call (3:30 till 9:30) and all we get out of it is knowing that the show will run.There have even been...

Well, My name's Pete. I'm a lighting designer and alround tech really in the frankston area. Still in high school which is always fun :) I'm one of two techs from my school. They have no money for Performing Arts like most schools and we only get anything after it becomes unsafe. My...