Hello, fellow lighting designers.
This blog is belated, but thanks to two emails from Lonnie it is here. Yay!
I would like to officially deflect from the lateness by talking about my load in for the week 9 one acts - we loaded in this past Sunday, had tech yesterday, and have our first dress tonight.
Load in was helped greatly by Yasmin, who kindly came in to help and guide in all the areas I had a significant lack of experience (thank you, Yasmin, you're awesome!).
We stayed pretty close to schedule, but because we had a ten hour day instead of twelve (surprise!), we got through a light cue-to-cue of one of the shows after programming/break instead of both. We caught up yesterday, and I also made a couple of adjustments to (hopefully) fill in the comparatively dark-ish spot that exists upstage center. With that hopefully resolved, one of the things I need to clarify tonight is the closing moments of the second show into curtain call.
I have learned that programming is mostly (re)learned (or just remembered) while doing, and that it's best not to question why the cyc lights suddenly start working after being stubborn for a few minutes. Picking cyc colors is not as easy as one might think. Stressed Lighting Designer is definitely a real state, and it doesn't so much reflect the process (which has been going pretty smoothly, I think), as much as the acceleration that occurs during tech.
Tonight, as I said, is our first dress, and I'll be getting feedback (from Lonnie). Fingers crossed that I'm not using too many lights. I'm liking some of the ways that my compositions are working (and I tried programming for source, then working in visibility), so... I'm excited. Nervous, but excited.
(I don't have a picture from the last two nights, but I will take one tonight and upload!)
You did a very nice job with the show and seemed to enjoy it - i look forward to your wrap up post
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