chawalang
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone,
I recently was asked by a friend who teaches in a performing arts high school to advise them on a technical management class. In this class they want to introduce the students to various different kinds of technical management fields outside of the traditional TD in a regional theatre. One thing that came up was being a TD/PM in a road house or for corporate events.
A question I have is what resources would any of you recommend for estimating budgets needed for the project? When I do that kind of work I always look at previous projects I have worked on to have an idea about, ohh this kind of audio package would cost this much or this kind of lighting package would cost this much to rent for this event. This being based on previous projects that are the same scale. Having good relationships with vendors has always served me well to get pretty constant pricing on what I would need. I guess my question comes from my experience of rinse and repeat from different kinds of projects I have done to plan for ones coming up. same would go for estimating labor.
I guess you would say i learned a lot of my technical management skills in the trenches and it wasn't necessarily taught to me in school, or at least that kind of technical management wasn't taught to me in school.
So if I could be in a class like this at 18, and someone gave me a light plot and wanted me to figure out how to estimate the rental cost for it for a show/ to see if it is even feasible due to cost, are there any resources out there besides lived human experience?
I also think this is a great opportunity to not only get these kids introduced to a side of the industry that isn't taught a lot, but to also get them to think about financial responsibility/ risk and critical thinking skills!
I recently was asked by a friend who teaches in a performing arts high school to advise them on a technical management class. In this class they want to introduce the students to various different kinds of technical management fields outside of the traditional TD in a regional theatre. One thing that came up was being a TD/PM in a road house or for corporate events.
A question I have is what resources would any of you recommend for estimating budgets needed for the project? When I do that kind of work I always look at previous projects I have worked on to have an idea about, ohh this kind of audio package would cost this much or this kind of lighting package would cost this much to rent for this event. This being based on previous projects that are the same scale. Having good relationships with vendors has always served me well to get pretty constant pricing on what I would need. I guess my question comes from my experience of rinse and repeat from different kinds of projects I have done to plan for ones coming up. same would go for estimating labor.
I guess you would say i learned a lot of my technical management skills in the trenches and it wasn't necessarily taught to me in school, or at least that kind of technical management wasn't taught to me in school.
So if I could be in a class like this at 18, and someone gave me a light plot and wanted me to figure out how to estimate the rental cost for it for a show/ to see if it is even feasible due to cost, are there any resources out there besides lived human experience?
I also think this is a great opportunity to not only get these kids introduced to a side of the industry that isn't taught a lot, but to also get them to think about financial responsibility/ risk and critical thinking skills!