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ESTA Foundation - Essential Skills for the Entertainment Technician
Best regards,
Frances Thompson
The ESTA Foundation
This is fantastic! I was a little bit nervous because just shortly after I became a member, they took it offline and have spent the better part of a year cleaning it up, and now have re-upped the memberships upon taking it back online.
eSET is a great resource filled with all of the theatrical terms under the sun. It has 2,294 terms in its database as of right now, which are divided up into the appropriate categories of:
- Audio/Sound
- Costume
- EFX/Effects
- Lighting & Electrics
- Multimedia/Projection
- Properties/Set Dressing
- Rigging
- Safety
- Staging/Scenic Fabrication
- Venue
ESTA is also working on getting PDF's up of assessments that can be given to people to gauge their knowledge of a given discipline, and general PDF's describing the different disciplines.
The goal of eSET is to help educate workers in the entertainment industry on the appropriate terminology for everything, and standardize the jargon while reducing the slang. Here in the Midwest, it feels like it's every few months I encounter a road show that disagrees on what west-coasting a drop versus east-coasting it is. eSET is an attempt to reduce confusion and make all of us better at what we do.