Hey there,
First proper post here, even though I’ve been kicking around on this site for a while. So Hi!
I’m SMing a dance show from the stage at the moment for a dance school. We are at dress and tech rehearsal stage at this moment and I can foresee potential problems during the performance that I may encounter with some of the crew.
The stage crew is a group of high school beginners in tech and on occasion my ASM finds them hard to control. She is in school with them and has worked with them before and I think that they have an established status qoe with each other that is not suitable for these working conditions. I’m all for fun as long as the work gets done but unfortunately this does not seem to be happening either at all or quickly enough through a lack of cooperation.
As I am calling from the stage I see a lot of her troubles with them from my desk at prompt side, but at this point don’t often have an opportunity to intervene. On occasion I get a chance to slip a sentence directed to stage crew in over comms, but my directions only seem to stay in their mind for so long. I get the impression that they have not yet experienced a production like this one and are not clear on the required etiquette.
I had words with all of them as a group and with my ASM after the last run and am yet to see if that has fixed this problem, but I was wondering if anyone had an idea on how I might aid my ASM to manage four 14 year old beginner techs that don’t seem serious about production work.
Thanking you.
P.
(oooh, that was an epicly longer rant than i though it would be)
First proper post here, even though I’ve been kicking around on this site for a while. So Hi!
I’m SMing a dance show from the stage at the moment for a dance school. We are at dress and tech rehearsal stage at this moment and I can foresee potential problems during the performance that I may encounter with some of the crew.
The stage crew is a group of high school beginners in tech and on occasion my ASM finds them hard to control. She is in school with them and has worked with them before and I think that they have an established status qoe with each other that is not suitable for these working conditions. I’m all for fun as long as the work gets done but unfortunately this does not seem to be happening either at all or quickly enough through a lack of cooperation.
As I am calling from the stage I see a lot of her troubles with them from my desk at prompt side, but at this point don’t often have an opportunity to intervene. On occasion I get a chance to slip a sentence directed to stage crew in over comms, but my directions only seem to stay in their mind for so long. I get the impression that they have not yet experienced a production like this one and are not clear on the required etiquette.
I had words with all of them as a group and with my ASM after the last run and am yet to see if that has fixed this problem, but I was wondering if anyone had an idea on how I might aid my ASM to manage four 14 year old beginner techs that don’t seem serious about production work.
Thanking you.
P.
(oooh, that was an epicly longer rant than i though it would be)