This week was the week before curtain up and it was spent rehearsing, light plotting and tech setting. This meant as part of the technician team for productions I got to learn how to safely use the talloscope.
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These pictures show the process of helping setting up the riggs and then the light plotting process this was to see how the lights would react to the different costumes.
In this week we ran the pieces out of order for light plotting, which was a bit of a pain for cueing the lights as when saving ques it goes into a continuous list, so to re-order things are a bit tricky from what Lee had said. Light plotting consisted of going through the key points in each scene or piece to see what they wanted and what they could have, also considered was how well the audience could see their faces, this was solved through using front light, these are either warm or cold depending on what mood you want. then we had four booms set up for side light with 4 parcans and 4 side spots of sort, these provided figure and definition to performers, we also had back light the same as front light, then we have intelligent LED’s which can change colour this is where the fun starts with picking colours and transitions. However for more intimate pieces or when they wanted to highlight something we had three fairly tight spot lights to chose from SL SR CS. I found observing and helping Lee very interesting and really, really hope I can help out more in the future with him.
In this week we also worked on setting up the drama studio AKA backstage, this mesnt getting costume rails out and set up it also meant organising the props, before and after every run. 
This door was used in the opening Alice in wonder land act, on the other side is a countryside painting, it is used in both a practical way and a comedic way.
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