(Heh, I just posted this to Community Theater Green Room -- Best community theater discussions on the Net! about an hour ago and was directed here as a possible alternative discussion forum. The post from there applies here, so here it is again...)
I am looking for some place to discuss the equipment and technology of low-budget high school theater/drama productions run on a shoestring. I assume this forum covers that sort of thing but I have no idea, so I suppose I should ask before I start posting here.
I am the "Information Technology/MIS" "manager/network administrator/tech support person" for a tiny 400-student rural school district in northwest Wisconsin. I have "multiple hats" and one of those hats is trying to help out the high school theater program.
I have a number of theater projects and equipment I have been involved with that I would like to discuss somewhere on the 'net, with pictures and so forth, but I'm not interested in setting up a school-operated blog or forum of my own. Would it be okay for me to discuss these things on this forum?
- Dale Mahalko
It's a Gymnatorium. We have no dedicated auditorium space, and likely never will.
Stage risers, all temporary:
Sound and lighting, also all temporary. Set it up, tear it down for each practice:
DMX stage lighting is temporary. It is only up 2 months out of the year:
I desperately want a catwalk near the ceiling along the back wall of the gym, but the school principal doesn't like the idea. So this is as high as the spot can go. Sigh.
I am looking for some place to discuss the equipment and technology of low-budget high school theater/drama productions run on a shoestring. I assume this forum covers that sort of thing but I have no idea, so I suppose I should ask before I start posting here.
I am the "Information Technology/MIS" "manager/network administrator/tech support person" for a tiny 400-student rural school district in northwest Wisconsin. I have "multiple hats" and one of those hats is trying to help out the high school theater program.
I have a number of theater projects and equipment I have been involved with that I would like to discuss somewhere on the 'net, with pictures and so forth, but I'm not interested in setting up a school-operated blog or forum of my own. Would it be okay for me to discuss these things on this forum?
- Dale Mahalko
It's a Gymnatorium. We have no dedicated auditorium space, and likely never will.
Stage risers, all temporary:
Sound and lighting, also all temporary. Set it up, tear it down for each practice:
DMX stage lighting is temporary. It is only up 2 months out of the year:
I desperately want a catwalk near the ceiling along the back wall of the gym, but the school principal doesn't like the idea. So this is as high as the spot can go. Sigh.