LightingPenguin
Active Member
Probably could get your maintenance team to do it, assuming they have an electrician on staff. Check the codes first though
im glad i brought this up even though i was really argumentative in the middle of the thread. i had never heard of running lights from the house exept when you are aiming them and building cues and scenes. i will try to work with what ive got and do my best. i guess it just seemed to me like you would naturally run lights from the booth but if we are all together we can run more fluently. we really just used to use com for that but now were less than 2 ft. away from sound guys. I will be removing the back row of seats this saturday (as per request of director) from our thearte to put in the monster table. ill take some pics so you guys can see how terrible this thing is. we'll make it work though. we always do!
-Max
For this, our schools are different. While our director asks us to give him some light, its our design. He's not dictating to us what lights to turn on. And being in high school we don't have a separate person on board and the designer in the house. The reason I move the board down is so I can be like your director, seeing what I want on and off, levels, etc etc. If your director is designing your shows, it makes sense for the board not to move, he has the right perspective from where he wants it and can simply call up.the director who used to be our old technical director can actually sit in the audience and tell us what lights should go on.
Also if by "we" in " we used it to talk to the sound guys" is the lighting board op, why were you talking to them over coms anyway? I'm just curious.
If you're house is accessible to a random student who has no idea what the equipment does without supervision from a teacher, I think it should be moved or the theatre should have better security.
Sadly our house is never locked. ever. and yes everything is just out in the open in the back now. We had some crown PCC's stolen last year from the sound position. no one seemed to care when i brought it up. by the way, at my HS im the ONLY tech person besides one other person.
I'd suggest something, the teacher would say it's the crazy, one of the pros would go up and ask the SAME THING and it was BRILLIANT :-S. I was really mad at first, then it just became a big joke between us. We even did it once where the TD said the EXACT SAME word as I did and same result .
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