the way things move
When you are a crew ahead of any department you should remember that other departments are depending on you and your knowledge of your own schedule. What the hell does that mean? Well, it means that if you are running behind and someone needs whatever thehell you are working on, you should say "hey, I am running behind. I hope to have it done tomorrow by such and such a time." It is general curtisy that if you know you are going to be behind to warn them...
In the same tongue, if you are changing your schedule and it effects other people, other departments you should tell them. So if you are expecting a certain piece of scenery say by, oh I don't know, Oct. 17. And you decide that you don't need it until Nov. 4th or 5th... you should tell both departments that are busting their asses off to get it done. That way, they can slow down and do it right.
Common curtisy, common sense.
What kind of rights are there in the theatre...can you cut and paste a drafting and then call it your own? So there is a set, the walls are where they are there is no choise what so ever. You draft chairs, tables and a couch and put them in the set. Someone else comes along and literally cuts the furniture out and then rearranges it and makes a photocopy so that it looks like a new ground plan. Do you have to give credit to the person who drafted it. Nothing fancy...in fact they almost look like the office elements in autoCAD that are just there and hanging out in cyber space waiting to be thrown in to use...Is it so horrible that someone would do it for a class project that the world needs to be blown up and put on the front page of the NEW YORK TIMES.
I guess I just feel like people are blowing up the stupid shit around here. Is it that we have nothing else to do or so much else to do that we don't care to do it and would rather look at the little petty shit.
Speakign of which, don't ask questions unless you are ready for the answers. Sometimes people just ask questions, maybe they didn't look up the info that could have been looked up. Instead of blowing up about it though and wasting not only your own time but also other people's time...and getting worked up, was the stress really worth it? Sometime it is easier to just do do it yourself, respond to things, then go to the bar and drink about it... it doesn't matter. It isn't changing the world. And hey, it if you answer quickly, it makes you look good...bitching doesn't.
On the floor Tonight:
The portal was almost finished. This is the big center piece. The portal is 5 pieces: the legs (the one that look like legs from a previous post) 2 corner pieces and the huge center chunk. Below is a picture of the chunk on it's way to the loading dock where it will receive a beautiful layer of Muslin. and then ship it off to Paints.
In the meantime:
Paints is well behind schedule. I don't think they fully understand what they are doing. Correction they don't. The paint charge has already said this. They can not figure out the perspective and the first attempt was a failure. It doesn't help the designer has designed something that can not be recreated. It happens every now and then. It is not that it is impossible but when the designer can not gice you certain points or know how the hell he did it in the first place...well you get what I am saying...
If you can't draw it, you can't build it. If you don't pass on the needed information, then do it yourself. We all (the production team as a whole) have enough other stuff to deal with.
Here is Paints trying desperately to not waste time.
PICTURE ID: there are 3 parts to that wall, each one has 2 sides seen by audience. The top of the wall if the top in the picture, the mid is the mid and the bottom is the bottom one with grey paint (it get's tiles instead of bricks) that looks kind of like a work table.
What is going on down there? Well, the bricks for the facing are already laid out (we think correctly) and they are trying to do forced perspective on a curved wall that has 2 different radius' and a low vanishing point. Why does it matter that the point is low...because the designer want line to go up which means he wants the bricks to have a different vanishing point than the wall themselves. Fine and dandy but give the paint charge some point to work off of...
And on that note...it is time to start a rebelion...I rebel against being here any longer.
In the same tongue, if you are changing your schedule and it effects other people, other departments you should tell them. So if you are expecting a certain piece of scenery say by, oh I don't know, Oct. 17. And you decide that you don't need it until Nov. 4th or 5th... you should tell both departments that are busting their asses off to get it done. That way, they can slow down and do it right.
Common curtisy, common sense.
What kind of rights are there in the theatre...can you cut and paste a drafting and then call it your own? So there is a set, the walls are where they are there is no choise what so ever. You draft chairs, tables and a couch and put them in the set. Someone else comes along and literally cuts the furniture out and then rearranges it and makes a photocopy so that it looks like a new ground plan. Do you have to give credit to the person who drafted it. Nothing fancy...in fact they almost look like the office elements in autoCAD that are just there and hanging out in cyber space waiting to be thrown in to use...Is it so horrible that someone would do it for a class project that the world needs to be blown up and put on the front page of the NEW YORK TIMES.
I guess I just feel like people are blowing up the stupid shit around here. Is it that we have nothing else to do or so much else to do that we don't care to do it and would rather look at the little petty shit.
Speakign of which, don't ask questions unless you are ready for the answers. Sometimes people just ask questions, maybe they didn't look up the info that could have been looked up. Instead of blowing up about it though and wasting not only your own time but also other people's time...and getting worked up, was the stress really worth it? Sometime it is easier to just do do it yourself, respond to things, then go to the bar and drink about it... it doesn't matter. It isn't changing the world. And hey, it if you answer quickly, it makes you look good...bitching doesn't.
On the floor Tonight:
The portal was almost finished. This is the big center piece. The portal is 5 pieces: the legs (the one that look like legs from a previous post) 2 corner pieces and the huge center chunk. Below is a picture of the chunk on it's way to the loading dock where it will receive a beautiful layer of Muslin. and then ship it off to Paints.
In the meantime:
Paints is well behind schedule. I don't think they fully understand what they are doing. Correction they don't. The paint charge has already said this. They can not figure out the perspective and the first attempt was a failure. It doesn't help the designer has designed something that can not be recreated. It happens every now and then. It is not that it is impossible but when the designer can not gice you certain points or know how the hell he did it in the first place...well you get what I am saying...
If you can't draw it, you can't build it. If you don't pass on the needed information, then do it yourself. We all (the production team as a whole) have enough other stuff to deal with.
Here is Paints trying desperately to not waste time.
PICTURE ID: there are 3 parts to that wall, each one has 2 sides seen by audience. The top of the wall if the top in the picture, the mid is the mid and the bottom is the bottom one with grey paint (it get's tiles instead of bricks) that looks kind of like a work table.
What is going on down there? Well, the bricks for the facing are already laid out (we think correctly) and they are trying to do forced perspective on a curved wall that has 2 different radius' and a low vanishing point. Why does it matter that the point is low...because the designer want line to go up which means he wants the bricks to have a different vanishing point than the wall themselves. Fine and dandy but give the paint charge some point to work off of...
And on that note...it is time to start a rebelion...I rebel against being here any longer.
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