I'm removing myself from this question 'cause he's design the next production on our stage That is if you are refering to the first "computerized " memory board. The first "Memory" boards were mechanical and had some big 'ole lock bolts on them where you could set a "level" you also had a Master handle that locked onto the individual handles and you might have had to push or pull 10 handles at once it was tough work. if you every get a chance to look at a real "piano Board" it's something else. There is one in Oklahoma city in the Scottish Rite Temple the is still used and in perfect " Showroom" condition.Cheating is when actors in a conversation really face out a little toward the audience, sort of making a V facing downstage, instead of being parallel ll.
Blocking isdeciding where on the stage something happens. Could be when they are acting, or singing, or dancing.
Don't know if this is outstandingly easy, (probably is...no, I'm sure it is...I'll ask anyways...) but who was the first to use a "memory" or computer lighting board, what was that board, and for what play. =P
I probably didn't phrase that as best as I could....
By memory board, I mean a computer that sends a message to a dimmer rack via DMX, and all that good stuff. The kind with a screen and buttons. (1st to have a memory, and store cues...)
And, by first ever, I meant in Broadway...
I don't know who actually first ran it on Broadway, but the designer was the first to ask for one on their show.
I have only seen pictures of the really old kinds, and wow, I am glad I don't have to run something like that nowadays... It would be awesome to see one in real life though...especially in such good condition... Iv'e never been able to see much historic equipment besides that in the dusty corners of our storage piles...(I'm just a high school tech, and haven't gone to too many other theaters. I have never actually seen a play outside of school. I've tried, but didn't have enough money, or just missed them entirely...)
the likely hood is that it will be a straight ethernet connection, and that the dimmer will simply look like a node on the network, and have an ip address etc, and run over 10base t or 100base t and simply eliminate the need for a conversion to dmx, the console will simply send an ip packet and the dimmer will simply receive it and decode it
Sharyn
(which could be made of wet string, or be the internet)
What was the question again?
Actually I believe the point of ACN is to move everything above the hardware level when it comes to data transmission.
Ethernet is actually (IIRC) 7 levels of hardware/software. ACN sits at the 2nd layer and will send DMX (or RDM, or anything else people invent) (an 1st layer doobry) along the 'network' (which could be made of wet string, or be the internet) independant of the hardware setup.
To get even more OT, ACN is really about moving DMX away from the hardware in the same way Windows moved everything above a hardware abstraction level.
Only problem so far is existing solutions use things like broadcast packets. Which tend to make the IT guys come shout at you.
What was the question again?
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