#theater tech

[verystrangehuman]

High school theater is so much fun because literally everyone is unstable as shit, pretty much no one has their schoolwork fully up to date, we’re all exhausted, and there’s usually huge amounts of relationship tattering drama but during performance nights we drop all of that off and if asked, we would all still die for each other. It’s like the pinnacle of non negotiable found family.

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[sondheim-girly]

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[starfleetshrimps]

i love star trek bc it's actually a high school theater production most of the time. We focus a lot on the over-acting, theatricality of the actors and the directors, and that's all well and amazing, but /I/ want to focus on the /TECH/ bc ASHAijnjsdnbhgaARREghghhuuagjkshdmhbAHJBSSHJHIEJBnkjsdjhbsdhjBmahbsjshsbHkjnswkjshsn yea.

FIRST THE SETS?!? they're so silly and stupid? i know they get a lot of shit but the amount of work (not to mention styrofoam) that went into building individual sets for each planet they went to? like sure about 50% of the away missions take place in the california desert (the arena, *cough cough*, etc) but the rest of them have individually made sets that look PRETTY GOOD MAN. they get the point across, they're FUN, and innovative, and they really don't reuse planet sets all that often as well.

PLUS they used traditionally /theatrical/ cycloramas with painted backgrounds and classical cyc lighting (reminiscent of mariano fortuny's domed cyc! i WILL talk more about lighting) which look really cool and once again get shit for being unrealistic.

it's not supposed to look realistic it's supposed to look cool as shit. and it does. shut up. <3

if you view the sets as being modern TV sets then yeah, they're weird, and they look sorta bad, but THEYRE NOT modern TV sets: they're THEATRICAL SETS FROM THE 60-70S. AND I LOVE THEM.

SECONDLY, THE

lighting

while it's true that some shows in the 60s were developing new lighting styles specifically for TV, remember that in the year 1950 less that 10 percent of US homes had a television. this shit was new. COLOR tv was ESPECIALLY new. nobody knew how to light these things! and actually why would you need a new lighting style, we already KNEW how to light dramatic productions, why would we ever need to reinvent the wheel Stanley Mccandles, Mariano Fortuny, and Gene Rosenthall already invented says Gene Roddenberry and Jerry Finnerman (the head lighting designer). and oh my god i am so ridiculously glad. because the lighting. is so good.

i HAVE seen others talking about how good it is in the super early episodes (Charlie X and the conscious of the King, etc.) and i do agree! but i disagree that the quality goes down. i think it just got a tad bit more subtle as the show went on and it gets less in your face, harder to notice. but i noticed. because I'M the WORST (and also a lighting tech)

the impossibility of listing every example of amazing theater lighting choice they made is absolutely horrific and nasty so i'll just lost some my my favorites:

the cyc! i mentioned before but the cyc they used on away missions was only painted when they needed a specific scene in the background, otherwise? that bitch was LIT. and i LOVE IT.

any of the scenes where they light spock's face have green and half pink? or even just washing the walls behind him? i eat that shit UP. the METAPHOR. the CONFLICT. i will acquiesce that green and pink are (and were) pretty goddamn industry standard gels (color-films) to add to lights, for subtle contrast, but this is not subtle. it is LOUD. was it purposefully done from a storytelling perspective? no idea. is it cool as shit and interpret-able as hell? absolutely. also sometimes they do it with just green when they want to emphasize his vulcan-ness and other him a bit. like they do it a lot when he's in his room in amok time. anyway.

whenever they shutter a light so they can emphasize a character's (kirk, we're talking abt kirk here. and *sometimes* spock, and also Charlie in Charlie X but yeah mostly kirk) eyes when they say something #Deep, or just pre-commercial break closure worthy line. it's so SHJSDJBFEJNKN. to add onto this, they'll do a striking half-wash over half of their face sometimes in conjunction and it looks So Good

The GOBOS. sometimes, they'll just throw light through a gobo, or wall screen, or something, for /visual interest/ and it looks so silly i love it sm. does it make sense from a realism pov? nO. but star trek is a theater production actually and they lit everything using mainly naturalistic techniques! amazing!

honorable mentions: the glowing time donut, and the entirely random colors in the hallway.

there are so many other examples but this post is long enough lmao. notice the lights next time you watch tos!!,! please!!! <3

#star trek tos #james t kirk #tos spock #enterprise #star trek #set design #lighting #lighting design #theater tech #techies #leonard mccoy #iatse would love this i think #theater lighting

[scythematrix66]

Me as a Propsmaster: *enthusiastically making endless, constantly revised lists and hiding away for hours upon end painting wooden staffs, goblin mode at 50% capacity at all times* "ALRIGHTY WHAT'S NEXT? HIT ME. HIT ME!"

Me as a Stage Manager: *thinks going to bed at 11 is early, loopy from exhaustion at all times, running on caffeine and stress, +3 dex from writing endless emails, is terrified of authority (somehow is the authority????), is totally confused at all times, just Trying My Best* "Alrighty guys, welcome to rehearsal today we're doing scenes one and two, remember we're off book next week so please learn your lines...please..."

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[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

SM: Fifteen. We all know it's not actually fifteen, but tell the actors anyway.

Stagehand: Thank you, fake fifteen.

you gotta do what you gotta do

#submission #ask and ye shall receive #theater #theatre #behind the scenes #theater tech #techblr #stage management #smblr

[stagefoot]

#stagefoot has had better days at work 🙂 #but as always thank you to SMs #techblr #my life #theater #lxblr #lx #stage managers #stage manager #technical theater #tech theater #omfg #theater tech #stagefoot original

[corallove]

Tech day 3/4!! Dress rehearsal!! Lets see how it goes!!

#theater tech #tech week #Frozen Jr #woo #dress rehearsal

[midsummernightsscheme]

i stayed after school for a few hours today with the lighting team because they had a lot of work to do and i'm trying to learn more about their department. and idk if any of you have spent time on a friday afternoon/evening with four teenagers in an auditorium fucking around with lights while florence + the machine is blasting on the fancy ass sound system but moments like that are why i do high school theatre. never felt more at home and more contented.

#asm #sm #stage managers #techblr #theater tech #technical theater #theatre kid #theatre tech #theatre #high school theatre

[noiselessbuck]

you know we could easily solve the male and female plugs and adaptors if yall were brave enough to say dick plug and vagina socket and dick to vagina adaptor ect

#theater tech #engineering #lol maintagging for fun #electronic

[filmcourage]

5 Steps To Script Analysis For Actors - Jean-Louis Rodrigue

Watch the video interview on Youtube here.

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[nameless-formless-entity]

a psa to all of my fellow people pleasing techies: working as an asm and winding up also being the assistant set designer because you’re helping out a friend is in fact exhausting

#student theater #techblr #stage management #set design #smblr #tech theatre #theater #theater tech

[sondheim-girly]

Getting ready for a 12 hour tech day, wish me luck!

#I. am. so. tired. #theater kid #musical theatre #musicals #broadway #broadway musicals #musical theater #fun home #light tech #tech crew #theater things #theater tech

[autumnluzarts]

Me, writing up instructions for the light tech at the venue: "no specific needs, but please blind me. I do not want to be able to see anyone in the audience."

#performing arts #live performance #singer #theater tech #lighting #stage fright #social anxiety

[scythematrix66]

My progress as a baby stagemanager

How it started:

How its going:

#musical theatre #student life #theater kid #stage manager #nerd stuff #theatre #theater tech #theater stuff #they let me sit at The Table #it's all coming together #i get to do cue sheets soon #I feel so official #college #college life #student #learning #finally we're getting somewhere #yay

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Stage Manager: they're the problem child. But they're the predictable problem child.

#it’s always important to have one of those #theater #theatre #behind the scenes #theater tech #techblr #stage management #smblr

[stagefoot]

The crew deserves content warnings

This message, unlike most of mine, is not aimed at other techs/crew

This is for everyone else involved in a production: directors, stage managers, actors, producers, etc.

It has become standard to include trigger/content warnings for audiences—and this is a HUGE step in the right direction!!!

I have never once received a trigger warning before I started teching a show.

I am not a button-pushing machine. I have a past and I have trauma. If something triggers me, I—unlike an audience member (who has presumably read the content warning and decided to participate anyway)—cannot leave without risking my livelihood.

This may not be the case for everyone, but for me, if I know what I’m getting into, I can prepare myself mentally and it doesn’t bother me as much. I have gone into every single show I have ever done completely blind, and the onus should not be on me to ask something that everyone else involved already knows. Especially because, just by asking, I out myself as having trauma. If this is something that is done all the time, for absolutely everyone involved, no one is singled out.

It takes two seconds and you can spare someone a lot of grief by taking the time to do it. And, in my book, this sets you up as an Awesome Person to Work With from the get-go! Which is a great place to start for everyone!

My personal thought would be for the stage manager to quietly mention any major content warnings to any crew at or around the Q2Q, but obviously it’ll be different for different productions.

Thank you from the bottom of my little stagefeet!

The crew deserves content warnings

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