Recent content by notranati

firstly, thank you for your responses. Sorry about the terminology I keep getting that the wrong way around... We do need some one like yourself to come in and give advice wich I have asked for but it never happens, so I am being asked instead (and as you can see I can't even get sends and...

Surely the school should be made aware that this guy needs training? It's not his fault. The school are putting their students' lives at risk by appointing some one with no experience of technical theatre and they would be liable if something happened, unless your friend has told them that he...

I guess what has been planned I'm not privy to. I just tell them what I want and they say if I can have it. Unfortunately there is no other space for the dimmers to go Either in the booth or bellow it! What kind of problems do you see this position posing? are we talking about during...

The multi core would contain all three... I want sends and returns from and to the control booth, also the option to have monitors for any musicians that are on stage.The booth needs to hold at least three, Sound op, lighting op and DSM. Looking at the plans which I got this morning, we have...

The space is already under construction so all I'm concerning myself with is lighting fixtures and the control booth. The seating, floor, walls and ceiling has already been decided. Unfortunately, being a school, the principle want's a space that can be used as a function room as well as a...

Cheers guys, sound advice I will look at your suggestions and get a some one in. I have a good relationship with white light in the UK they did the chilli installation for us and I trust what they say. I like the 'get the basics sorted first' approach from kiwitechgirl. Very wise, I guess we...

Hi guys we are currently re-fitting a school hall and turning it in to a working theatre with raised seats, control booth dressing rooms, front of house etc. We have a pair of Zero 88 chilli dimmers which is controled through a jester 24-48 lighting board. We are looking to get some more...

the problem now is that we are fighting with the powers that be! they are saying that they want a stage area where the floor will be sprung and have the stanfast vinyl floor, I talked about earlier, and the rest of the hall to be a wooden floor!!!!! I can't seem to get it across to them the...

Well I think we have come to a decision! We are going to lay down a sprung floor over the existing screed of the entire room. We are then laying a hard wearing vinyl floor called Standfast from Harlequin Floors. It is 3mm thick and very hardwearing. We are then going to lay masonite or other...

Thank you for your advice, I agree that one floor type should be used throughout the space. I can't seem to find a company that produce Stagelam or Masonite in the UK!! Am I not looking hard enough? I think we have moved away from the carpet idea as it will soon look tatty and get chewing gum...

The seating is retractable and the floor,which ever we go for, will need to be maintained so that the wheels of the seating unit don't ruin the floor. We will be using sets on the floor so this will be a factor in our decision! What is a good floor to build a set on? and also be easy on the...

Hello, I am the theatre technician at a college, we have this old victorian built hall which the college are going to convert in to a working Studio space/theatre. We are having some heated discussions over the flooring throughout the space. At the moment we have carpet which has been laid and...

Hi, I've been working as a theatre technician for three years at a sixth form college. I love the job, although there is not a dedicated techie course as yet I run an activity which gives the students an insight in to technical theatre and hopefully they will go on to uni to study it. The...