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Performance Day Reflection

On reflection of the performance day, I would say we had a smooth running and organised day. The technical team (Larissa, Alex HS and I) along with the director were in the performance space for 9am ready to start. Luckily we had been in the theatre with some of the LPAC technicians the night before to hang the frames ready for performance day. This meant that we were already ahead in terms of our performance day schedule.

Here are some of the photos from throughout the night before and the day of the performance:

Here we are marking centre stage to get an idea of where the frames will hang ^

Alex (the technician) and I are preparing the bungee chord and rope for the frames here.

Discussing the lights in relation the the frames (We rigged the above head spotlights at the same time as rigging the frames).

These are taken of the first walk through with the frames – taken on the night before the performance.

After rigging and focusing the lights, Larissa Oates, Alex Watson (who was cueing the show) and myself went up to the lighting box to start the cueing process. In total we had 92 LX cues in the script that needed to be programmed in chronological order, ready for a cue to cue, a full dress run through and the actual performance.

After finishing programming the lights we broke for lunch ready to come back for a cue to cue. The cue to cue lighting did not go as well as planned as the blue wash didn’t programme on all the cues as intended. In saying this it was sorted out through liaison with the technical team ready for the full dress run through.

As a performer I felt the dress rehearsal went great, a few stumbles happened with lighting cues but apart from that all was well. The actual performance also went amazingly well, and we’ve had a great response from the audience both in person, and on our social media sites.

If I could do it all again to change anything, it would be the strength of some of the frames. One did snap mid performance, but I think I handled it well enough for the audience to notice but not know if it was on purpose or not. Little glitches to happen in performances that sometimes can’t be helped but overall I think we put on an entertaining show that matched what our manifesto said it would, and hopefully you’ll hear from STAMP Theatre again some time.

Thank you for reading,

Emma Huggins

Video Blog: Cue Script

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Here are some example images of the cue script we created:

Thank you for watching,

Emma Huggins and Larissa Oates

My Role within STAMP

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To enable a theatre company to run and produce a show, certain roles need to be assigned to the members of the company. Some examples of roles and teams needed within a theatre company are: a production team, someone to manage its finances (budgeter), a producer (to over look all decisions), a director and the obvious one of actors. Within our company, STAMP Theatre, I have been allocated the roles of lighting director and actress.

When delegating the roles within our company we had to make a team decision of who would do what, and since I had the most experience with lighting (though I do not have much myself) I volunteered myself to be a part of the technical team.

Often in theatre companies people will double role to save the cost of paying two people when one person could do both jobs. This obviously is not the case in our company, as no one is getting paid however, we have chosen to multi-role within our company because most of us wanted to act therefore, like a professional company some of us had more than one role.

As lighting director it is my job to transpose the ideas of the artistic designer to the technicians at our venue in a way that is understandable. I need to create various documents that will provide our venue with the knowledge to create the lighting settings we want. The documentation I need to provide is, a Lighting plot (also known as an LX plot), a magic sheet and a focus chart. Each document will need to be in a generic format that the technicians at various venues will be able to understand – if we were to tour the production, this would save making a new focus chart each time.

Thank you for reading,

Emma Huggins