Technical Theatre 3 and 4

Technical Theatre week 3:

Last week in technical theatre we started looking at planning and programming a state of lights.
We were shown a song, Bosonova by Elvis, and we had to split into teams and plan a state of lights for it.
In that session we were to just visualize it and see what we wanted to do with it. We looked through all of the colours and chose which ones we wanted to use.
That was our only task for last week.

Technical Theatre week 4:

So, today we went into the theatre and learnt how to program the lights on CONGO. Woo!
We watched a video on Youtube that explained the newest version of Congo and showed you how to use some of the features. It looked pretty simple, but it would still be intimidating to go up to the board...
In our separate teams, we then got to go upstairs and learn practically how to use the board.
Rebecca taught us how to set a state of lights and then record the state, then we were each given a chance to record our own state, which had to be made up of three lights.


Setting the states and recording them:

1. Choose a light you want.
2. Type the number of that light into the keyboard and then press CH/ID.
3. Type 100 into the keyboard and press @level to set the intensity of the light to the maximum.
4. Repeat the first three steps two more times to add the next two lights.
5. Highlight the three lights you just set on the screen.
6. Hold down CH/ID and press the "record" button on the keyboard.
7. Give your state a title and then press record on the screen.
8. Then, to turn on the state you just created, press "GO BACK" on the keyboard and then press "GO" on the keyboard.
9. To save the work you have done, go to the browser on the left hand side of the screen, click on the arrow next to "files" to expand that section, and then click "save" and title your work.