Past Production Slides

Today I showed Mr Hawkins what style of slide he would like....

I had a uniformed one or a more jumbled one.




Uniformed

Jumbled

 And if he wanted a small simple text or the logo.


This is the simple text.

With the logo

Mr Hawkins decided that he preferred the one with the logo and the jumbled one.

Unit 72- Ramp Building

To saw the angle I used a guide and clamped it to the wood while I sawed it.

The clamped guide.

 

To do this we had to line up where the angle was needed and the collumns.

 

Once we had drilled the holes we stood it up to make sure it was even.

We only drilled the screws in slightly to begin with to get the angle then we drilled them all the way.

We lined up the wood in the order we were drilling it.

Production Meeting- Wednesday 16th Dec 2015

Completed from last week:

•  FOH furniture suppliers
• Production past photos have been requested and transferred to my document
• The tickets have been done and weren't needed as it was all going over the internet
• All the merchandise has been found and the suppliers are being inputted.

Need to know:
There will be no sitz probe


To do:

• The synopsis and acknowledgements are being started for the programme
• After the holidays I need to take more photos at rehearsals for the programme
• I will start over Christmas and this week to start creating the previous production boards

Unit 69: Sound Operating For The Student Christmas Concert

1. Before the show started we realised we had no idea for the backing tracks who's phone or backing track was which, so we asked each person with one to tell whose phone was which and who needed a CD and made a note of this in a column next to their name. This helped us to the cue the next backing track easily and efficiently. At one point one of the phones kept crashing on the backing track and the volume on the actual phone wasn't turned up, however we ensured all tracks were turned up on the phone and the phone didn't crash in the end.
   
   
   
   

   

   We wrote who each of the backing tracks belonged to.

2.  Another problem we faced was some of the music on the phones wasn't loaded up and we couldn't locate it, so using Comms I told Lauren that we needed the performer to locate it, Mrs dLG came to the box and gave it to the performer to find. By his act the music was ready to go.
3. By using the column next to the performers name I was able to know what channels I needed to unmute for the act, the levels were set in the sound check however sometimes I needed to adjust the level depending if the performer was louder or quiet, as the band, especially enter Angus had very loud singing compared to more of a ballard singer like Beth.

   

   The sound F/X column I used to know what to unmute.

4. The mics that were being used by the act was also determined by what the performer chose, this meant I had to watch which mic was chosen and know which to unmute there and then.
5. At the end of the performance there was a buzzing from a mic still on, however everything on the desk was muted, however we didn't notice that the baritone sax mic was on the other side of the desk, once we discovered this we muted it.

Student Christmas Concert

My Role in the first show was: -ASM Sound
-LX


The second show: -LX


The third show: -Sound

At the last minute I programmed some extra lighting states such as a Christmas 2 one and a piano spot.

I had to programme while the sound check was happening.

By the 2nd show we had a block of 3 full flood stage states we could use for bands and dancers.

As an ASM I saw one of my states 'Frozen
 and it worked well.

One of the mics didn't have enough give during the show, this led to the mic becoming tangled and the performer bending. However for the next show we untangled it and carried on.

After the first performance I realised that I needed to programme lighting on the stage blocks more for the final.

I wrote a final cue for the second show where it said exactly the right states, and in the final copy I wrote the channel numbers to make it quicker.

Front of House Furniture Quote and Costing

Hiring 

1.  http://www.allenshire.co.uk/catalogue/furniture/tables/black-poseur-table-70cm-x-110cm/

   

   This is a black high topped table.

£24.95 for a 2 day hire, this company is based in Southampton.

2. http://www.exhibithire.co.uk/product/511/mara-table-white

This is another tall table.

It costs £58 to hire the table for 1 'event', it is unclear what it means, yet I interpret that as one day.

3. http://www.hireit-eventfurniture.com/metal-frame-poser-tables

This London based company has a higher quality product for £78 per 'event'.

Buying

1. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HQC18N8?keywords=poser%20tables&qid=1449864455&ref_=sr_1_25&sr=8-25

To buy this table from Amazon UK £171.20, that's equivalent to 2 and 1/2 days hire. It has free delivery and can arrive in 5 working days.

2. http://www.nisbets.co.uk/Bolero-Cast-Iron-Ornate-Poseur-Table-Base/CE175/ProductDetail.raction

This table will give a more luxurious feel.

The delivery time is 2-3 days for this product and if over 5 are brought the price drops to £57.99 than £59.99.

3. http://www.simplybarstools.co.uk/como-poseur-table-black.html

The cost of this is £59.99 with free next day delivery.

From my findings it will be cheaper to invest long term in the tables as they cost mostly less than 1 nights hire.

Unit 68- Rigging and Setting Up Moving Lights

Firstly we attached the brackets to the sunstrips.

This had to be done on either end.

Then on the vertical scaffolding poles we attached and fastened the brackets on either end.

The brackets were first fastened by hand and then tightened with a spanner. 

This was how the secured the brackets.

These are the sunstrips mounted and then using double brackets we attached scaffolding poles across  the top to hold the Robe movers.

When testing how secure the top bars were we noticed they weren't tightened enough,  so we retightened the brackets with a spanner again.

Using brackets on the Robes we attached them onto the top bars.

We moved weights to the back of the the scaffolding to counter the weight and hold them up.

To help fasten the lights I held the the bar to ensure that it would stay under the pressure.

Then to fasten the light I used a spanner to secure the bracket.

Using power we inserted it into the Sunstrips.

Then ran a longer cable into the connectors to then connect to connector with a 3 pin plug to plug into the mains, however we only had 2 of these.

This was the splitter to run it into the mains.

This was our alternative to using the extensions, however  this risked overloading the circuits.

Then in a chain I connected 3 pin XLR into the Sunstrip output- Robe input, then Robe output - Sunstrip input , in a continuous chain. Then I had to tape to the back of the scaffolding to create a neat finish.

This is how I daisy chained the sunstrips, I inserted the 3 pins into the base of the sunstrip. Only the Robes needed to have 5 pin to 3 pin XLR converters. 

Only the Robe beams had arrived during the day so we could only see what the sunstrips and Robes looked like so I loaded up my pre programmed states and tried them onstage.

This was one of my chorus states but when setting up.

Finally the extra power cables came and we unplugged everything  to reconnect the cables not into the mains.

As we were still a few cables short and the 16 v pack only had 6 sockets when we needed 8, we left the low voltage  Robes in as they're LEDs yet in the high voltage sunstrips we connected them with the new power.