unhitch 'IT'
Sun, 26 Sept 1999, 04:30 pmJoeMc1 post in thread
unhitch 'IT'
Sun, 26 Sept 1999, 04:30 pmSorry - this is long winded and i know i run the risk of being craped on from a great at maxium velocity - So what's new.On saturday night I was rather taken aback, by a play I was watching, when the actor/technian - who I assume also played the part of the SM in the play - whent to enhance the actor on stage by adding to the light "a 52 gold" gel or filter + frame - the colour 52 gold was the main part I remember. Which was fine and possibly a good chioce {this must have been #Cinemiod 52 pale gold - as the only other filter #Lee 052 which is Light lavender and the other brands are 3 number designations that being #Rosco & #Gamcolour - not sure about #E-clour or #Ash clour -}However a few classical blues happened to this innocent Strand#123 (650 Fresnal)which happly hanging about on BAR 1 (not BAR 2 as described)burning merrily in open white with no colour frame in it.
1. The actor climbed up the ladder without any colour or frame.
2, The lamp was on, even as has requested for it to be switched on.
3, He only had a red handled screw driver to adjust something
4, He was brave, he did not show any pain, as he attempted to adjust the {must have been bleeding hot} wing nut on the yoke.#Cinemoid may be hard to find or have on hand - but you could use a very close gel in #Lee 152 - and most techs would have a (#Cresent) fixed or adjustable type of spanner to attack the adjustement and focusing.Unfortunetly, the Theatre is an open studio type light rig, with no masking boarders and everything is in view - so it is hard to get away with a lot -Later, I did wince some what, when a rostrum was erected - it looked like chip board but may have been MDF - which had 3 sides and what appeared to be a screw down top, leaving the up stage side open and un supported. This was alright untill an actor was helped up onto the top of it sitting on the down satge edge and kept leaning towards the back of it, as she did so the top board flexed dramaticly with the extra weight and strain on it. In the most part her weight was on the sold down stage side - but a few times it looked like it was going to give and she would have ended up falling backwards. Unfortunetly the nature of the board will not support this and if it was chip board especialy it has a great tendancy to break away, with great reliablity. Because it was a quick movemnet each time and as it did not go on for long, I doubt I would have made it to the FOH Manger to bring this to the attention of the stage manager and I doubt if anything would have been done beyond me creating a problem - so it passed. That's why it's here.I am not trying to be smart or over critical and I feel sorry for the Club involved, but there does seem a tendancy to "TIPEX" plays by duffing out the obvious and an attitude of "She'll be right - they won't notice" - but this 'little black duck' did and there was others who commented. This possibly would never come into an adjudictors focus, as would the digital watch worn by an actor during the 1940-45 war which was realy a great effect of turning her wrist to the audiance on cue with the fade to black out, but that's another story.It is not that the expertise is not available - it's available in your theatre - and it does not have to be brought in at great exspense to the Management!Again I am not trying to pick out any particular group or club and I am sorry for being picky and a complete prat for daring to raise it. Some might I say, I know they were only doing their best (an excellent job at that! ) and having fun, but to my mind it is as supportive an element to any performance as dialoge is.Unfortunetly - Safety is important and not just something that tends to get in the way and a hassle at best - 'cause the next accident might happen to you!Otherwise I enjoyed it all very much and the standard of product presented was and is better than alot of others I have seen - Pro & Am, over there!Joe
1. The actor climbed up the ladder without any colour or frame.
2, The lamp was on, even as has requested for it to be switched on.
3, He only had a red handled screw driver to adjust something
4, He was brave, he did not show any pain, as he attempted to adjust the {must have been bleeding hot} wing nut on the yoke.#Cinemoid may be hard to find or have on hand - but you could use a very close gel in #Lee 152 - and most techs would have a (#Cresent) fixed or adjustable type of spanner to attack the adjustement and focusing.Unfortunetly, the Theatre is an open studio type light rig, with no masking boarders and everything is in view - so it is hard to get away with a lot -Later, I did wince some what, when a rostrum was erected - it looked like chip board but may have been MDF - which had 3 sides and what appeared to be a screw down top, leaving the up stage side open and un supported. This was alright untill an actor was helped up onto the top of it sitting on the down satge edge and kept leaning towards the back of it, as she did so the top board flexed dramaticly with the extra weight and strain on it. In the most part her weight was on the sold down stage side - but a few times it looked like it was going to give and she would have ended up falling backwards. Unfortunetly the nature of the board will not support this and if it was chip board especialy it has a great tendancy to break away, with great reliablity. Because it was a quick movemnet each time and as it did not go on for long, I doubt I would have made it to the FOH Manger to bring this to the attention of the stage manager and I doubt if anything would have been done beyond me creating a problem - so it passed. That's why it's here.I am not trying to be smart or over critical and I feel sorry for the Club involved, but there does seem a tendancy to "TIPEX" plays by duffing out the obvious and an attitude of "She'll be right - they won't notice" - but this 'little black duck' did and there was others who commented. This possibly would never come into an adjudictors focus, as would the digital watch worn by an actor during the 1940-45 war which was realy a great effect of turning her wrist to the audiance on cue with the fade to black out, but that's another story.It is not that the expertise is not available - it's available in your theatre - and it does not have to be brought in at great exspense to the Management!Again I am not trying to pick out any particular group or club and I am sorry for being picky and a complete prat for daring to raise it. Some might I say, I know they were only doing their best (an excellent job at that! ) and having fun, but to my mind it is as supportive an element to any performance as dialoge is.Unfortunetly - Safety is important and not just something that tends to get in the way and a hassle at best - 'cause the next accident might happen to you!Otherwise I enjoyed it all very much and the standard of product presented was and is better than alot of others I have seen - Pro & Am, over there!Joe