Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
We're doing TV now!
As is pretty common in the Age of Rona, many of the events at a college I work overhire for have moved partly or entirely to live stream. While I've been on their overhire list for 5 years or so now, primarily as a sound and playback guy, I've lit a couple shows, and SM'd once or twice, and worked the deck a few times, in addition to the customary set and strike.
And being an IT guy by trade, I set up their Zoneminder system for both security and situational awareness (though we're obviously not using it much for the latter just now...)
My supervisor got hired a couple weeks before me, but had a decade of touring theatre experience. My top boss is pushing 70, and his experience goes back to Joffrey II when he was in his... teens? 20s?
But none of that experience is in TV.
My own background includes some actual formal edumacation in broadcasting, as well as practical experience going back to about 1986 or so, in a couple commercial environments, as well as 20 years of community access TV, sitting in all seats, but mostly directing.
And now, I'm cutting too much for him. In straight plays. It's jarring. Could I use more 1-sec dissolves?
In Tennessee Williams. And Christopher Durang.
Any thoughts, here, folks?
[ And this is on top of, in the same day, blowing me off when I noted that 2 actors were pushed into the dark by a misplaced set piece. "No they weren't. Shush." In front of the producing department head. Clearly, I'm cranky enough about the whole thing to even talk about it. I'm pretty sure nobody not already involved can identify any of the parties, and everyone is, of course, invited not to try... ]
As is pretty common in the Age of Rona, many of the events at a college I work overhire for have moved partly or entirely to live stream. While I've been on their overhire list for 5 years or so now, primarily as a sound and playback guy, I've lit a couple shows, and SM'd once or twice, and worked the deck a few times, in addition to the customary set and strike.
And being an IT guy by trade, I set up their Zoneminder system for both security and situational awareness (though we're obviously not using it much for the latter just now...)
My supervisor got hired a couple weeks before me, but had a decade of touring theatre experience. My top boss is pushing 70, and his experience goes back to Joffrey II when he was in his... teens? 20s?
But none of that experience is in TV.
My own background includes some actual formal edumacation in broadcasting, as well as practical experience going back to about 1986 or so, in a couple commercial environments, as well as 20 years of community access TV, sitting in all seats, but mostly directing.
And now, I'm cutting too much for him. In straight plays. It's jarring. Could I use more 1-sec dissolves?
In Tennessee Williams. And Christopher Durang.
Any thoughts, here, folks?
[ And this is on top of, in the same day, blowing me off when I noted that 2 actors were pushed into the dark by a misplaced set piece. "No they weren't. Shush." In front of the producing department head. Clearly, I'm cranky enough about the whole thing to even talk about it. I'm pretty sure nobody not already involved can identify any of the parties, and everyone is, of course, invited not to try... ]