Students: Win a free ETC console for your School.
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Sounds to me like they're getting desperate for entries.From the Twitter:
The "Show Us Your ETC" challenge ends February 21, 2012.
A bird told me that they only had one entry... and it was not exactly what they were looking for. Those of you who have a leprecon 2 scene preset ducted taped to the wall.... throw and entry up... they have not closed it yet. You might be late, but better late then never. Its worth a shot.
CrazyTechie
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Me and the other techs at my college are working on putting something together for this. We are hoping to have our idea set in stone when we have our meeting again on Friday.
My guess is that the majority of people that could use this the most, and actually be motivated to follow through this are the kids who have never heard of ETC, don't have competent staff for their theatre education beginnings, or students probably don't care enough because they are graduating soon (see earlier in thread). The other problem I have seen (from my limited view of the college world) is a lack of keeping up with the industry from professors and students in college, many don't seem to read the industry periodicals, websites, blogs even. Lastly, the image I think a lot of people, particularly these groups, see ETC for what it was, the same old instrument and consoles made for mostly conventional theatre. The young kids want to play with an MA1/2, a Hog, or don't care about the console because "that's for designers." They want fancy toys and big expensive consoles because thats all they see on TV and at the concerts they go to. I think to a lot of them, ETC isn't known, or it isn't sexy.
If I could enter, I would, even if just to support the wonderful company they still are. Sadly, I don't think I'll be seeing any of the local schools in the competition. Also, as someone looking at going back to school, I think it's sad that so few know about this or took the time to try and better their program (or motivate their students to do so). I sincerely hope ETC continues this program into the future, even if they don't receive the number of entries they had hoped for.
If I could enter, I would, even if just to support the wonderful company they still are. Sadly, I don't think I'll be seeing any of the local schools in the competition. Also, as someone looking at going back to school, I think it's sad that so few know about this or took the time to try and better their program (or motivate their students to do so). I sincerely hope ETC continues this program into the future, even if they don't receive the number of entries they had hoped for.
My issue is that I can't think of something that we could do well, with the resources we have available.
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techieman33
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I wonder if a lot of schools have decided not to bother since all they have are conventional fixtures, or maybe just a couple of LED units to control and feel that the console would ultimately just go to waste.
There is still almost a month left to submit entries. Generally speaking, the target age range is notorious for waiting until the last second to submit anything. If there is one thing my Stagecraft and Intro to Theatre students have taught me over the years is that the vast majority of students will wait until very near the deadline to submit anything, no matter how simple or difficult the task / assignment is. I would expect this is the case here.
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CrazyTechie
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Way to condemn an entire class of students there, DaveySimps.
Look at it a different way--perhaps they're just practicing to be future designers. When is the last time a light plot, rendering, set model, or shop drawings were submitted on time, or <gasp>< gasp > early?</gasp>
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shiben
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Way to condemn an entire class of students there, DaveySimps.
You can submit those things on time? And what is this early thing you speak of?
