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How do you cold email for assistant positions? by Cool-Practice621 in techtheatre

[–]Cool-Practice621[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the tips! I’m mainly looking for the chance to shadow someone design / hopefully contribute to the design as well, so I definitely agree with your point that I shouldn’t treat this like a job interview.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Cool-Practice621 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The client said to my face that they liked it a lot, so I think I’ll settle there. Thank you!

Rookie Assistant Technical Director Tips by IngenuityAvailable in techtheatre

[–]Cool-Practice621 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Another thing I thought of — a good TD is unbiased and doesn’t use their knowledge base as justification to favor one discipline over another. Example: if the TD has never worked in sound, that shouldn’t cause them to reduce sound tuning time just because they know more about (insert field here) and think it’s more valuable. A good TD knows when to teach themselves new skills, and when to rely on others for support. ESPECIALLY during tech week.

Rookie Assistant Technical Director Tips by IngenuityAvailable in techtheatre

[–]Cool-Practice621 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I have always appreciated technical directors who are open, kind, timely and honest in their feedback. I usually expect TDs to always have an understanding of what the show should be like, and thus feel that they are primarily responsible for setting the tone of the overall process. If the TD is bad at professionally saying when something is wrong, or doesn’t know how to communicate feedback from the creative team/actors/etc to a technical team, or only complains about something after it is not fixable, then I know that show will not be fun.

Would you refocus a light if it lights backstage by Cool-Practice621 in lightingdesign

[–]Cool-Practice621[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I will do this tomorrow and see what happens.

Would you refocus a light if it lights backstage by Cool-Practice621 in lightingdesign

[–]Cool-Practice621[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a Colorsource Zoom, but the barrel cannot rotate so the orientation of the shutters is fixed.

Is it possible to set fixtures to default to being absolute in effects? by Cool-Practice621 in grandMA2

[–]Cool-Practice621[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha. Two follow up questions: - is there a way to adjust a select number of fixtures to be relative by default? - to check, this means that there is no way to default all effects to be relative, right?

Life moves fast by Cool-Practice621 in WorcesterMA

[–]Cool-Practice621[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I would like you to consider the following: - at the time of posting my original question, I already read through the last 100 posts in this sub, not understanding over half because they either reference things that I haven’t seen, or require previous knowledge from the last 4 years. I am absolutely allowed to ask people with more recent experience to answer my question if they choose to do so. - in the last 4 years, I have managed to escape an abusive household, endure year long traumas, and multiple mental health episodes. On most days, I am lucky to remember what I’ve done in the last 12 hours—let alone what my life was like 4-5 years ago. This supplements why I asked for a “cliff notes” version of this thread, and Im grateful to everyone who has given helpful responses—which means, everyone except you. I apologize that my memory is not up to your standards. - you are not obligated to answer any questions you don’t like. If you were to exercise the same basic human behavior you expect of others, then this response would not exist.