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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: so nervous!
« on: Mar 05, 2008, 10:45 am »
quick story to cheer you up:
i was hyped up by friends that i was a badass techie to this professional lighting tech who was coming in to my high school to set up the show we were doing. he was awesome, but he thought I was just as awesome, so he starts giving me my orders for the afternoon, i nodded and processed what he wanted, only I DIDN'T KNOW half of what he was saying. I was at the time great with sound work, but hadn't touched lighting really. I had no idea that a "two-fer" was about splitting a lighting cable, or any of that stuff. When he was done, I organized my thoughts, and said "ok, show me a two-for, how to patch a dimmer to a channel, and where this type of plug needs to go".
he was perfectly pleasant and quickly but not in a rushed way showed me what i needed to know to finish the job. I was calm and focused, and i learned what i needed, and helped him wonderfully for the rest of the week.
MORAL OF STORY: Don't ever be scared to ask. The person IN THE KNOW was at one point NOT IN THE KNOW just like you.
i was hyped up by friends that i was a badass techie to this professional lighting tech who was coming in to my high school to set up the show we were doing. he was awesome, but he thought I was just as awesome, so he starts giving me my orders for the afternoon, i nodded and processed what he wanted, only I DIDN'T KNOW half of what he was saying. I was at the time great with sound work, but hadn't touched lighting really. I had no idea that a "two-fer" was about splitting a lighting cable, or any of that stuff. When he was done, I organized my thoughts, and said "ok, show me a two-for, how to patch a dimmer to a channel, and where this type of plug needs to go".
he was perfectly pleasant and quickly but not in a rushed way showed me what i needed to know to finish the job. I was calm and focused, and i learned what i needed, and helped him wonderfully for the rest of the week.
MORAL OF STORY: Don't ever be scared to ask. The person IN THE KNOW was at one point NOT IN THE KNOW just like you.