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Apr. 12th, 2003 12:04 amto sum up my day, i would like to quote brent sienna of pvp: "znrrk. boobies." (he was asleep at the time.)
spent 13 hours working on the dance show today. on the plus side, i earned $130. on the minus side, i spent 13 hours working on the dance show. woke up at 9.30, focused lights, gelled lights, changed the gels cause christine got orange amber gels instead of merely warm ambers. watched smoke come up from the lights with blue gels on them because christine bought lee instead of roscoe, and lee gels melt and burn like nobody's business, and because the gels she choose cut out a lot of light which means they heat up instantly. then i got to deal with choreographers who could not remember that i had never heard their music before, and who wanted spotlights, or "just a little more amber [i move the slider up .5].... not quite that much [i move it back down to where it was] that's good."
note: this is not a light board. it is a ghetto light panel. it is smaller than 5"x8", has a four scene preset with 12 2" sliders, and a fader that requires a screwdriver and a lot of fiddling to change the timing on. when you ask me to make that fade a little faster, or make the blues a little brighter, or ask me to run 10 cues during your dance, none of which have the same settings, the answer will be "fuck you, ask me again and you'll be dancing in the dark."
it got better, though, i figured out all the lighting and told all the choreographers who weren't dancing in their own pieces that they were going to be backstage giving me cues because they know both their music and their choreography by heart, whereas today is the first time i've seen/heard either. two different choreographers during the second performance got so distracted by watching the dancers that they didn't hear me when i said "is this my cue coming up? should i be changing the lights now?" and didn't respond till i got to "was that when the light cue was supposed to be?" yeah.
oh, and the second performance, which i didn't realize existed until about 45 minutes before it was starting? that was fun too. i *really* wanted to go home at that point. i hadn't gone to dinner, and i had finished my crappy fantasy novel, so i was really bored and really hungry.
now i'm too tired to be bored, but still hungry. i'll write a con entry eventually. oh, and do all those other things, like showering and laundry and homework. bleh.
spent 13 hours working on the dance show today. on the plus side, i earned $130. on the minus side, i spent 13 hours working on the dance show. woke up at 9.30, focused lights, gelled lights, changed the gels cause christine got orange amber gels instead of merely warm ambers. watched smoke come up from the lights with blue gels on them because christine bought lee instead of roscoe, and lee gels melt and burn like nobody's business, and because the gels she choose cut out a lot of light which means they heat up instantly. then i got to deal with choreographers who could not remember that i had never heard their music before, and who wanted spotlights, or "just a little more amber [i move the slider up .5].... not quite that much [i move it back down to where it was] that's good."
note: this is not a light board. it is a ghetto light panel. it is smaller than 5"x8", has a four scene preset with 12 2" sliders, and a fader that requires a screwdriver and a lot of fiddling to change the timing on. when you ask me to make that fade a little faster, or make the blues a little brighter, or ask me to run 10 cues during your dance, none of which have the same settings, the answer will be "fuck you, ask me again and you'll be dancing in the dark."
it got better, though, i figured out all the lighting and told all the choreographers who weren't dancing in their own pieces that they were going to be backstage giving me cues because they know both their music and their choreography by heart, whereas today is the first time i've seen/heard either. two different choreographers during the second performance got so distracted by watching the dancers that they didn't hear me when i said "is this my cue coming up? should i be changing the lights now?" and didn't respond till i got to "was that when the light cue was supposed to be?" yeah.
oh, and the second performance, which i didn't realize existed until about 45 minutes before it was starting? that was fun too. i *really* wanted to go home at that point. i hadn't gone to dinner, and i had finished my crappy fantasy novel, so i was really bored and really hungry.
now i'm too tired to be bored, but still hungry. i'll write a con entry eventually. oh, and do all those other things, like showering and laundry and homework. bleh.