Dracula 2003 Even though I haven't mentioned it here, but I was part of the Drama Club's proformances this year. I could be an awesome cast member and do a lead roll, but you guys already hear me babble about how busy I am and this would throw about 30 zillion more things into the mix and really mess it up. So I decide to run the sound, announce and help with the lights.

It has been a very stressful last 2 weeks, if it isn't one thing, it's another. For instance, I had this last week planned down to the hour! I knew exactly when I had to run where, sometimes down to the second! It was nice, I could get things done and people were happy with me! So I was thinking that I had to work at Video World on Tuesday and then I could go to the practice on Wednesday and everyone would be happy since the show opened on Thursday. I when I got to work, I got a rood awakening, I didn't work Tuesday, for some reason my brain thought I did because it would have worked out sooo nice. But heck no! I ended up working out ok but just added about 4 times more stress into the situation!

You guys might remember me ranting about the POS light board at have for the light system at my beloved high school, anyway, it's a total hunk of junk from the 1940's, 1/2 of it doesn't work. So Jason (aka The Lighting Guy) and I have to run the damn thing. Well, let me correct myself, he runs it, I get thinks running. Since I still work in the office I get some time that I can work on it, I got him 2 more rows of blues working, 1 more row of whites, 3 more apron lights (front lights) and reaimed the apron lights. Let's just say that the lights look 1000% better after those changes. Also, since we did Dracula, there was a creepy crypt sceen, I thought it would be awesome to have a nice thick stage fog comming in during that, our director had the machine but was planning to use it, I finally convinced her to use it and WOW, that makes a scene looking UBER creepy!

Also, I didn't make very many of the practices, but when I started coming to more toward show, I noticed some spots in the show that TOTALLY needed some spot light work! Like there is a part where Dracula walks out in the croud and completely out of light, it was horrible. So I grabbed a janiror and we got the spot mounted in the secondary light booth. It made all the dirfference in the world, and we used a red spot for a couple things and it just added that much more. I was very happy with the way the spot turned out! There is just problem with the 2nd light booth, it has sound proof glass in in between the proformance area and the booth itself, so the people running it can't hear a thing! Luckily, at church we have a system for the hearing impared that you hook up to your sound system and it will retransmit it to belt pack with ear pieces. Let's just say it was a total life saver! I hung a hot mic over the stage and they could hear EVERYTHING in the room! Props go out to Phil and his deaf friends (you know who you are!)

Oh, like I said, I didn't get to go to many of the practices, so I didn't know the set changes (we had a ton of them) but since we had the light booth covered and no one was giving the lighting guy his ques to bring up the lights, I decided to help out with set changes and kinda be the flood director, we was a blast, things got done for once! I might just do that next year!

If you think I'm bragging, I am, this is my journal right? I don't expect you to comment and say "Way to go!", I just want to be able to look back years from now and remeber this show. Just a reminder, I don't force you to read my crap.

One last thing, some before show and after show pics are here Posted by chris at 01:39 AM Drama • (0) Trackbacks