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    High school plays - what shows are you doing and have you done?

    So far, during my time at my high school we have done the following: Play On! (Fall 2013) Into the Woods (Spring 2014) Shrek the Musical (Summer 2014) The Crucible (Fall 2014) Footloose (Spring 2015) Next to Normal (Summer 2015) [Was supposed to be Chicago, but rights got revoked once a tour was...
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    Counterweight Fly System- Safe Batten Load Removal

    Just as a note, I have never done this on our fly system and so I don't know if it is safe. Additionally, I am in no way a professional, but the following made sense in my head. Here it is: what if you flew in the set piece, removed it (or part of it), then weighted the bar with the same amount...
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    High School Production Schedule

    At my school, we meet after school on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday every week from the start of the school year until the week of the show (we meet every day the week of the show). The meetings go from the end of school (2:40) to 4:30. This works pretty well for us since we have a fairly large...
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    Conventional Fixtures Side lights--What degree barrel to buy?

    In the past, they have rented 36 degree lenses. I have only been involved in two shows where we have used them (we only rent them for musicals where there is a very large cast), and the problem that I have been having is that I haven't been able to get an even amount of light on the actors and...
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    Conventional Fixtures Side lights--What degree barrel to buy?

    We have about 15 source fours, but 10 are tied up in the FOH position, hence then need for us to rent the ones we usually put on booms (we lamp them with 750 watt lamps). We do usually buy used gear, normally from the same place we rent from. I got my stage measurements from a diagram that was...
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    Conventional Fixtures Side lights--What degree barrel to buy?

    Hey everyone,Recently, I had been informed that my school theater has quite a bit of money saved up in our bank account, and we have to spend it before the end of the year or the school will take it to put it into the general fund. For the past couple shows, we have rented 12 source fours to...
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    DVD rack player (for a Map pro with no DVD drive?)

    As stated above, it's not usually recommended to show the actual DVD. What we do at our school when the film production kids give us DVDs of their films is to use a program called Handbrake to rip the video file off the DVD. We only use this because we have rights to show the video. Please do...
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    Just to give an update on the show... It went very well and looked great thanks to all of your suggestions! Here's a link to see a bit of the show https://youtube.com/watch?v=4L0fNwL_ST8
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    Hello,I have adjusted the plot one more time since the original posted above (version two is attached). Im going to hang this plot tomorrow (Monday) and see how it looks. When I'm done, I'll try to post some pictures of the show! Anything else noticed that can be improved on the plot would be...
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    @derekleffew Thanks for the advice on the lighting of the drops, I will try some different things out when I'm in the school next. I was unsure when labeling the FOH positions because when the connector strips were wired, they wired FOH 1 with circuits 26-50 and FOH 2 with 1-25, so I assumed...
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    @np18358 Our theater never really had a full inventory of our fixtures, which is something that I am hoping to do after this show is over. What I do know is approximate numbers. We have about 25 Source Fours, 20 ETC PARs, 30 6" Colortran Fresnels, 15 8" Colortran Fresnels, and 6 Colortran three...
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    Hi! I used LXFree which is a native OSX program, but it also comes in a Java version that will run on Windows and Linux computers with a Java runtime installed. Here's the link: http://lx.claudeheintzdesign.com/lxfree.html
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    Thanks for the reply, I decided using saturated colors because of how I thought they looked during videos and pictures online of the scenes. The red is for a rickety bridge over lava. The purple is being used for a scene (If you have ever seen the Musical/Movie) in Fiona's tower where she is...
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    High School Shrek The Musical Light Plot

    Hello!I just became the lighting tech for my high school and am a rising sophomore. We usually run three shows a year: a fall play, a spring musical, and a summer musical in addition to regular school assemblies, talent shows, etc.. I have little experience with lighting, having only learned...
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