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    any helpfull tips

    I recently SM'd HAMLET, and our student teacher bought me the COOLEST stuff: @ packages of 4 different colored post-it flags, (about .5 inch by 1.5 inch), a highlighter to match each flag, and a fine tip sharpie to write on the flags... our director bought each person who holds onto a script 2...
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    College???????????

    do you get dramatics magazine? earlier this year they had a GREAT issue filled with a bunch of differant theatre schools. like, state colleges, exensive ones i'll never afford... and a list of programs they offer. Search the net, see if you can find someting on that issue...December 2003...
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    Unruly Crew

    This year i had my first 2 SM jobs... one of them being Hamlet, with a massive crew and set. theres a coule people on the crew whove been there longer than me, so i feel awkward asking fo respect, and half the time i feel as though i have to be a nazi just to get anyone's attention. our...
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    extreamly stupid question

    i'll check into voltage and the like. thanks for your hl and i'll get back to you guys... although, i know that one our spots has a classroom overhead bulb in it... gosh are we poor! i never even though about the fans... wow. i feel stupid. i hate to sound even more stuid, but i...
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    extreamly stupid question

    in my theatre "The Rose" it goes as follows ******Back Wall****** DBOD --------Makeshift electric/strips--------DBOD ----------------3rd Electric-------------...
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    How do we tell them....

    his the big thing, i beleive that our TD may have been the one to urchase them.. although he told me this AFTER he said the music dept. iced them out... its comlicated... we use rosco gels. We even do the whole cutting slits to prevent melting... I'm not shure of wattage. I'm...
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    How do we tell them....

    here's my idea: you have a roblem confronting some authority about something going wrong...and you tell me how to say it...so i don't die. ok, my question: the band/orchestrs dept. recently bought themselves backlighting by the brand name of "american DJ" they burn thorught our gels in a...
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    Cleaning of Dimmer Packs

    what we do at the end of every school year (and should robably do the morning of each tech rehearsal) is blow ours out. as every one said before, ower down comeletely, and we used our shop vac, (which i just cant seem to get it to suck) and set it on blow. aim AWAY from the rack (ull each...
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    Specifically Set please

    hmmm ,i've heard of that play. the advanced acting class seeant a good 3 months on it last year... i'll talk to our director, and see what she might have cooked up in her mind. give me a few days.
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    Wasup! Yet another young Highschooler Techie.....

    I'm from salem, it bites. my school has poor funding that bites too. our lighting system is blowing up. big gite. we had a td last year, but he got a real job... how do i sustain? lots of ramen, and occasional techies outings...i.e. breakfast on early saturday tech days.... god i love my life.
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    Unconventional uses of lights

    haha, hows this? I was surfing the net one day, and found something that my fellow head techie wouldn't let me try...grrrr.... you take a leko w/a 575 watt lamp in it and hang it 3 inches above a preared ramen on a metal stage weight. (the kind of ramen in the cup) cook for three minutes and...
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    broken dimmer pack's

    Does anyone here have a strand system? Well my school does... that means blown dimmers left and right... int the middle of shows and everything... Anyway, i was wondering if it's natural for the system to only have a ten year shelf life, and why after five, many are only usable through...
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