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Uploaded Forms / AEA tools
« on: Jun 16, 2006, 10:17 pm »
Equity Break time Calculator attached in Excel format.

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Uploaded Forms / Actor/Scene Breakdowns
« on: Jun 16, 2006, 10:17 pm »
Actor/Scene breakdown attached in Excel format.

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Uploaded Forms / Another accident report form
« on: Jun 16, 2006, 10:16 pm »
Another accident report form, this one in PDF format.

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Uploaded Forms / Accidents, Emergencies and Safety
« on: Jun 16, 2006, 10:15 pm »
Accident Report Form is Attached in Word format.

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SMNetwork Archives / We are aware that some stuff is broken.
« on: Jun 16, 2006, 01:38 am »
OK, the code cannot be salvaged.  I'm trying my best to save the call board data.  If I manage to do so, SMNet will go down to just the call board for the next few weeks until I can slowly recode the rest of the site.  It was not my intention to have this happen in the middle of my busiest season but it did.  

Kit lists will be lost.

HOPEFULLY nothing else will be lost -- everything will eventually return.  Accounts and passwords will be preserved.

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SMNetwork Archives / We are aware that some stuff is broken.
« on: Jun 16, 2006, 12:31 am »
Went to add moderators and rearrange stuff.  Wound up messing up a large portion of  the backend code.  Working on it, not sure when it will be fixed.  Major issues here.

Stay tuned for details.

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SMNetwork Archives / Forum reshuffle upcoming
« on: Jun 13, 2006, 09:45 pm »
Our new moderators are almost all ready to take on their new forums.  This means I'll need to actually *make* the forums first.  The Call Board will be locked for thread reshuffling on Thursday evening.  Should be back up by Friday.

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One thing that I would recommend is to go through the SMNet resume browser not from the perspective of a stage manager, but wearing a hiring hat.  Look at all of them as if everyone was applying to work for *you*.  Who would you choose, and what would make you choose them?  What situations would make you choose one over the other, and how did the formatting affect that choice?

I think you'll find that content prevails over format in nearly all situations.

I spent quite a bit of time working for a recruiter.  I saw hundreds and hundreds of resumes and spent lots of time rewriting resumes to promote our chosen candidates.  I'd agree with the points of whitespace and simplicity.  I'd also encourage you to remember that this is a sales document.  It's your audition.  The interview is the callback.  Your resume is an expression of your style as a stage manager.  If you bring tons of experience to the table, then devote the bulk of your page to listing the shows.  If your strength is in the diversity of the technical positions you've held, then focus on that.  If soft skills are your forte, then dwell more on the special skills are or on references.  If you've only done a few shows but you're a killer swiss army knife SM, then just list those shows with subdetails of all the various things you did underneath.  Don't forget the functional resume format, too.  It skips chronological order in favor of listing just the special skills that you've accumulated over the  course of your career.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Stop The Show!
« on: Jun 12, 2006, 10:38 pm »
While I've never had to call the stop myself, I've been involved with two halts.  

The second one was during my internship year, I was on deck crew for the world premiere of "Berlin Circle" by Charles Mee.  The show involves a large truck that had to be pushed around the stage by a couple of  actresses.  We would hook the truck into a very large turntable to mock this effect.  Everything had gone well during techs but during the first preview we only got one of the two hooks into place during the shift.  When the deck chief went to start the 'table, the truck wouldn't budge and started just spinning in place.  Stopped the show, hooked the truck in, and restarted.

The first one was many many years ago (back when I was still acting) and was far worse in terms of PR.  This was back in high school.  My high school had mounted a production of "Playing for Time" by Arthur Miller to combat several arrests for anti-semitic behaviour on the part of our varsity athletes.  We were trying to demonstrate that just because some of the kids in the school were a bunch of bigoted idiots, it didn't necessarily carry over to the rest of us.

Now for those of you who don't know the play, it tells the story of the women's orchestra at Auschwitz and required us to turn the auditorium into a concentration camp.  The play features a funeral  scene with a coffin placed on stage, draped with the Nazi flag.  It was in the middle of this scene where some twit decided to pull the fire alarm, sending us all out into the parking lot to wait for the FD crews.  It took years for us to live down the sight that greeted the firemen upon arrival -- 30 kids in the parking lot dressed either as Nazi soldiers or concentration camp prisoners, and the whole scenery setup that was left on stage when we had to evacuate.

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I generally use CutePDF writer, which as of posting time is free with no watermarking.  LINK.  I tend to do a lot of printing to PDF and it works quite well. It may be the same one as mc suggested, can't tell without redownloading.

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SMNetwork Archives / Congratulations to the New Moderators!
« on: Jun 05, 2006, 11:32 pm »
Oh wow, an unread post in Announcements.  Crazy!

You may have noticed that a few of your comrades have started showing up in green on the forums.  This means that they are now members of the Moderation Team for SMNetwork!

Members new team (except for VSM) should be considered as "Moderators in Training" for the next couple of weeks while they learn which buttons they should push.

New Moderators are:
megf
ljh007
BalletPSM
centaura
nmno
mc
KC_SM_0807

New Community Manager in Training is MatthewShiner.

Congrats to all of the new moderators!

Also, stay tuned for the introduction of some new forums: Get Togethers, Employment, Tools of the Trade and the splitting of General SM into Theatrical SM and Non-Conventional SM.  Expect some shuffling of existing posts to occur as we move them to their new, more appropriate homes.

Oh, and new Moderators should see something new on the Call Board.   If not, PM me.

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SMNetwork Archives / Website suggestion!
« on: May 22, 2006, 02:36 am »
These are all great suggestions!  I've moved this into General SM so that all of the discussions are consolidated.  Please continue discussions in the Sticky thread at the top of the forum!

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I wanted to mention some of the requests that have been made regarding improvements to the site and open them up to the general SMNetwork community for comments and prioritizing.  Many of them are quite valuable and will make substantial improvements to the site, although some of them are already in place, albeit somewhat tough to locate.

New features that could (and probably should) be added:
1. Job descriptions of the various "tiers" of SM work (PM, PSM, ASM, DSM) -- I think the current "job descriptions" area could be easily expanded to handle this.

2. Working with assistants/finding assistants.

3. Better handling of the resume gallery.  Apparently right now it's kind of hard to find.

4. More prominent list of schools that feature good theatre programs.

5. New suggested forums:
a) Diplomacy and interpersonal issues
b) Tools of the trade
c) Job hunting
d) Genre specific SM forums (opera, dance, events, industrials, etc.)
e) Self Employment/Freelancers forum

6. A calendar of SM related events.

7. Better and more robust forms gallery.

8. Monday night real-time chats.  We've got a chat room, we should use it!

Any comments on priorities for these can be posted here.  Please bear in mind that some of these things cannot be implemented well with the site in its current structure.  A complete redesign is going to take time -- I finally know enough PHP to redo this site from scratch but it's going be October before I can really get into it with both feet.  Feel free to toss out more suggestions, too.  This is your site.  I just code here now.   :)

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EDIT: Nominations are still open but this has been consolidated into a thread in General SM here.

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SMNetwork Archives / Website suggestion!
« on: May 17, 2006, 02:22 am »
Ok, if you want to go through and find stuff that's particularly useful, I'll go through and either "sticky" the threads so they don't drop off or move them to the SMNetwork FAQ.

I only come through here every couple of weeks, but will try and get in here more frequently for a bit until new moderators are chosen.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of suggestions, is it maybe also time to start considering a new lineup of forums? I mean, Topic of the Month just ain't happenin and I can think of some other forums that might be more useful.  (Job Hunting... Get Togethers... International)  Help me out here, folks.  I've now been out of the business myself for two years, it's tough for me to stay connected to everything when I spend 60 hours a week showing apartments.

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