Today in Technical Theatre we prepared the theatre space for the induction performances which are happening next week, but the first thing we did was take a trip up the trap door! Pretty exciting, if a little scary.
Our job as a group was to move the scaffolding poles and rig some lights.
I worked with Elvina and Princess. Once the others had moved the scaffolding poles, with a little help from us because they're so heavy, it was our job to rig the lights.
We had to rig two Parnels onto each pole, one at head to mid height, the other at mid to shin height.
These side lights had to light the stage for dancers, so they were in zig zag formation.
We were able to rig the lights quite quickly because we learned how to do it in the first week, but we had a few issues with the G clamps being turned the wrong way, and the wing screws being too stiff. After a bit of jiggling them around with a wrench, we managed to get all of the lights rigged. Elvina, Princess and I did the four on stage left.
I find it nice and easy to rig lights, it's pretty straight forward, and we all picked it up quickly.
It was nice to go in today and have everybody get to work straight away because we all understood what we needed to do.
The course which I am on is acting, and next week for our induction performances we're doing short pieces of Greek theatre, as the practical element to our classical theatre unit.
For performing classical theatre, the lighting we'll need is just a general cover, not anything special!
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