Hello!
I figured I would post here. I've been meaning to (and even told by a moderator too!), but... I don't know what's been keeping me from doing it.
Well, anyway, I just teched a show today. And it was absolutely awful. Well, not awful because we got everything done! We did. And that's awesome. But I just need to vent at what I did badly and what's going in my mind. Okay? (It was five hours in a space we never saw before!)
I'm just out of college, and still trying to see how everything flows and goes together, and tech is always a huge ordeal. This was my first post-graduate tech, and... it didn't go too smoothly. I was unprepared with a lot, but I also was working with a new director (obviously!), and as I'm new at this, I didn't really discuss how we were going to do tech beforehand. He started taking the reigns, and I feel like he did that because he thought I couldn't. And I didn't take them back because I didn't want an upset director (which ruins tech!). It was a chicken and egg thing.
So I was upset about that.
Also, I was in the booth making both the sound and light cues. Creating the light cues and fixing the sound levels. So on top of all of the added pressure of trying to get through tech, I had to make the light and sound cues and write them all in my book.
Additionally, I was constantly getting yelled at because the transition guide for the crew that I wrote wasn't really good. I wanted to tell him there were a lot of reasons why; I didn't know how many people I had in crew, who in my crew could physically move what, from my experiences it is easier to give crew papers and have them write physically what they need do instead of giving them a sheet that is wrong and have to rewrite on it. A lot of other reasons too. I just thing it was an almost unfeasible task that was kept getting focused on, and while I do take the blame for not writing a good one, I just... I don't know.
SIGH.
But it still was a great experience. I learned a lot. A LOT.
And the show is going to be great.
But I just needed to vent.
HI, y'all!
=)
Good first impressions, right?
