silly internet
I tried to write my update after crew last night which seemed to go forever (I guess it does though when you ar enot done until 2:30am.) but the internet wasn't happy with me or maybe I just wasn't happy to around, who knows. Anyway, so I set out now to finish what was started 7 hours ago...sigh
REPORTS!
Urinetown.
Um, well install continued.
And while the picture is dark and kind of iritating in that way if you click on it, the bigger picture is a little bit easier to look at. There are 2 more walls standing and in place and big steel gate that connects to the walls. Otherise if you look at the picture fromt he day before not much else changed...except for one minor thing...Look at the floor, See that brown circle?
Yeah I don;t either there just isn't enough work light in there for how dark the set is. Anyway, there is a trap in the floor now which runs to our trap room. Our trap room runs under the deck and we can access about 18'x24' through the deck. It isn't perfect...actually far from.
The stage traps are not square (or rectangular) they vary in size by about 1/2" and finding the traps is pretty annoying since they are covered in maso that doesn't match an seams. Inorder to get to 1 trap you may have to remove up to 5 sheets of maso. None the less, we did more than it looks like.
Lighting got most of the portal wired up, it will have a little chase sequence for about 20 seconds during the show. That is why there is a bunch wire and cable hanging down the sides of it. Maybe tomorrow the for pipe will be hooked up and you can see the beautiful plumbing that is happening. Running something 200' of hose and PVC tube to carry fog to the vents on the portal.
And in the shop, Barbed Wire. Stretching from wall to wall in a nice arch are 3 sets of barbed wire. Yesterday I rolled the steel for all 3 of them (although I think one might be rolled a bit to far I will test it today) and got Barbed Wire Attached to 2 of them. I would love to see some set designers work with the material that they want for their own shows. Barbed Wire, eh. So i am a bloody mess, yes i was wearing gloves, but I have scrapes going all up my arms and little holes were the barbs went right through the gloves and into my hands. So now I am all tingly and kind temperature change feels like death. Washing my hands, I wish I didn't have to. Hot water: Hell No. COld Water: yeah right. So I bite my tongue because I still have the biggest one yet to do.
Side shot of the middle one about 1/2 complete
The Chairs.
The chairs continued it's load in tonight. It is just not as exciting.
The design is interesting but I am not sure how it will play with people on it and if it will read to the audience. I am curious to see what will happen. It is also seems like the scene designer /paint charge is just letting people roll over him. He needs to put his foot down and act like he cares. we (the production team) new that he needed last night and tonight to paint the entire deck. Last night we were still working, which was planned. But tonight they want to put a genie on the deck which sucks since painting needs top be done. BUt there he goes again rolling over and acting like he doesn't care. I think if he portrayed that he cared he might be taken a bit more seriously.
I talked to the job lead awhile after install tonight about the process. The junior TD types are going to be in some trouble next year. I realize this as they keep making silly little mistakes. I think this lead though has taken the most ownership over her show. And while, yes, she is making mistakes it doesn't bother me at all because she is trying her damndest and it shows. That is what counts my mind. You can fuck up all you want that is why this is educational theatre, but if you ar enot going to care and you are not going to learn from your mistakes then you should just walk away now, because that is what this style theatre is about. Learning.
She is budgeting the next mainstage show and she has to do it on her own for part of a class project. I met with her to go over some different ways of getting into the budgeting stuff because she has to have it turned around pretty much by tomorrow. Her numbers aren't due until MOnday but she has to have stuff to the advosirs today and tomorrow so that we know she knows what she is doing. I went through things with her because she whasn't really had to budget a show before and this is a pretty big show. So more will be comin gof that show soon.
What else is in the cooker....Glass Menagerie.
Is still in it's build phase. It installs on Saturday. The walls are still walls, there was not crew for it last night. we have only had 2 days of build, 1 the job lead was out sick for and we are apparently already not being trusted to do the set correctly. Notes should wait until we say soemthing is complete or if we ask something about a unit. Coming through while the set is still in process and pointing things out is annoying and says to the crew that you think we actually put something on the stage that could hurt someone. Those kind of things are what a walk thru before actors are on stage is all about.
Ok, so there is barbed wire in the other show, it is really high though. And the fake stuff was just way to expensive.
Beast on the Moon also stepped up. It is in it's first budget pass. It is going into it's second budget pass now. It is just a bit (read as a shit load) over budget. It is a cool concept and a neat idea and I really hope we can find some way to make aspects of it work, but for how little money (read as why bother giving them a budget) they get, it can't really happen. Maybe we can 'find' the material somewhere.
well, I think it is time to run because I have a weekly meeting to get to and I am sure I have already pissed off a few readers, eh. That's what this is about though and if you don't like it, don't read it.
REPORTS!
Urinetown.
Um, well install continued.
And while the picture is dark and kind of iritating in that way if you click on it, the bigger picture is a little bit easier to look at. There are 2 more walls standing and in place and big steel gate that connects to the walls. Otherise if you look at the picture fromt he day before not much else changed...except for one minor thing...Look at the floor, See that brown circle?
Yeah I don;t either there just isn't enough work light in there for how dark the set is. Anyway, there is a trap in the floor now which runs to our trap room. Our trap room runs under the deck and we can access about 18'x24' through the deck. It isn't perfect...actually far from.
The stage traps are not square (or rectangular) they vary in size by about 1/2" and finding the traps is pretty annoying since they are covered in maso that doesn't match an seams. Inorder to get to 1 trap you may have to remove up to 5 sheets of maso. None the less, we did more than it looks like.
Lighting got most of the portal wired up, it will have a little chase sequence for about 20 seconds during the show. That is why there is a bunch wire and cable hanging down the sides of it. Maybe tomorrow the for pipe will be hooked up and you can see the beautiful plumbing that is happening. Running something 200' of hose and PVC tube to carry fog to the vents on the portal.
And in the shop, Barbed Wire. Stretching from wall to wall in a nice arch are 3 sets of barbed wire. Yesterday I rolled the steel for all 3 of them (although I think one might be rolled a bit to far I will test it today) and got Barbed Wire Attached to 2 of them. I would love to see some set designers work with the material that they want for their own shows. Barbed Wire, eh. So i am a bloody mess, yes i was wearing gloves, but I have scrapes going all up my arms and little holes were the barbs went right through the gloves and into my hands. So now I am all tingly and kind temperature change feels like death. Washing my hands, I wish I didn't have to. Hot water: Hell No. COld Water: yeah right. So I bite my tongue because I still have the biggest one yet to do.
Side shot of the middle one about 1/2 complete
The Chairs.
The chairs continued it's load in tonight. It is just not as exciting.
The design is interesting but I am not sure how it will play with people on it and if it will read to the audience. I am curious to see what will happen. It is also seems like the scene designer /paint charge is just letting people roll over him. He needs to put his foot down and act like he cares. we (the production team) new that he needed last night and tonight to paint the entire deck. Last night we were still working, which was planned. But tonight they want to put a genie on the deck which sucks since painting needs top be done. BUt there he goes again rolling over and acting like he doesn't care. I think if he portrayed that he cared he might be taken a bit more seriously.
I talked to the job lead awhile after install tonight about the process. The junior TD types are going to be in some trouble next year. I realize this as they keep making silly little mistakes. I think this lead though has taken the most ownership over her show. And while, yes, she is making mistakes it doesn't bother me at all because she is trying her damndest and it shows. That is what counts my mind. You can fuck up all you want that is why this is educational theatre, but if you ar enot going to care and you are not going to learn from your mistakes then you should just walk away now, because that is what this style theatre is about. Learning.
She is budgeting the next mainstage show and she has to do it on her own for part of a class project. I met with her to go over some different ways of getting into the budgeting stuff because she has to have it turned around pretty much by tomorrow. Her numbers aren't due until MOnday but she has to have stuff to the advosirs today and tomorrow so that we know she knows what she is doing. I went through things with her because she whasn't really had to budget a show before and this is a pretty big show. So more will be comin gof that show soon.
What else is in the cooker....Glass Menagerie.
Is still in it's build phase. It installs on Saturday. The walls are still walls, there was not crew for it last night. we have only had 2 days of build, 1 the job lead was out sick for and we are apparently already not being trusted to do the set correctly. Notes should wait until we say soemthing is complete or if we ask something about a unit. Coming through while the set is still in process and pointing things out is annoying and says to the crew that you think we actually put something on the stage that could hurt someone. Those kind of things are what a walk thru before actors are on stage is all about.
Ok, so there is barbed wire in the other show, it is really high though. And the fake stuff was just way to expensive.
Beast on the Moon also stepped up. It is in it's first budget pass. It is going into it's second budget pass now. It is just a bit (read as a shit load) over budget. It is a cool concept and a neat idea and I really hope we can find some way to make aspects of it work, but for how little money (read as why bother giving them a budget) they get, it can't really happen. Maybe we can 'find' the material somewhere.
well, I think it is time to run because I have a weekly meeting to get to and I am sure I have already pissed off a few readers, eh. That's what this is about though and if you don't like it, don't read it.
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