Dylandtech
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So, I am the lighting designer for my schools winter musical. I created a plot with zero ground plans, and never seeing a full run through. I hung and patched the plot, hazers, and patched everything.
Heres where the problems started
I kick on the hazers for the start of q2q and start having my programer punch in some cues for me, and the director starts YELLING that the hazer looks like ****. He was rude and disrespectful to me. On top of that my schools TD (who is a joke to begin with, I know more **** as an 18 year old than he does) tried to tell me how to do my lighting design and also he was rude and disrespectful.
Our show is going up at a Union House, and before final dress I had the house sound head set me up a specialized Com system so I could hear both my spot ops and the stage manager but the spot ops could only hear me and when i talked i would only be heard by my spot ops. During opening night the "TD" pulled me aside into a private room and told me that i need to switch over to the stage managers channel and my spot ops did as well so that i wouldn't "be on an island". During the second act I switched over to the main channel and then got bitched at because I was over-powering the SM. I'm sorry that I can be heard because I am clear and precise and the SM cant call **** correctly. I was basically yelled at for calling my show the way I call my show. The SM, deck crew, most of the IATSE crew, my spots ops and a few other people agree with the fact of that the show ran more smoothly without me on the channel. My spot ops dont care what the SM is saying and to be honest, as long as the lights are on the SM doesnt care what I'm calling.
Thank You for letting me rant. Any comments on how to fix the situation would be great as well
Heres where the problems started
I kick on the hazers for the start of q2q and start having my programer punch in some cues for me, and the director starts YELLING that the hazer looks like ****. He was rude and disrespectful to me. On top of that my schools TD (who is a joke to begin with, I know more **** as an 18 year old than he does) tried to tell me how to do my lighting design and also he was rude and disrespectful.
Our show is going up at a Union House, and before final dress I had the house sound head set me up a specialized Com system so I could hear both my spot ops and the stage manager but the spot ops could only hear me and when i talked i would only be heard by my spot ops. During opening night the "TD" pulled me aside into a private room and told me that i need to switch over to the stage managers channel and my spot ops did as well so that i wouldn't "be on an island". During the second act I switched over to the main channel and then got bitched at because I was over-powering the SM. I'm sorry that I can be heard because I am clear and precise and the SM cant call **** correctly. I was basically yelled at for calling my show the way I call my show. The SM, deck crew, most of the IATSE crew, my spots ops and a few other people agree with the fact of that the show ran more smoothly without me on the channel. My spot ops dont care what the SM is saying and to be honest, as long as the lights are on the SM doesnt care what I'm calling.
Thank You for letting me rant. Any comments on how to fix the situation would be great as well