Welcome To Technical Theater Arts Our Home: CV Auditorium

Class Requirements  Show up to class on time  Do not miss class  Tests on Vocabulary, hands – on  50 hours outside of class on productions  Work hard and work with pride  Attend fall play, musical, 1 winter play  Play Report: Attend 1 professional play for each semester.

Tools You Must Have:  Stage Arts Shirt ($20.00)  Notebook, pen  Lighting: Wrench, gloves, box cutter, belt  Construction: Wrench, or ratchet, screwdrivers, measuring tape, pliers, chalk line, hammer, gloves, tool box

Assigned Performances  Fill out your conflict sheet!  I will assign you to productions based on the conflict sheet  Late = loss of points  Failure to attend –First time: loss of a grade –Second: You will not be assigned to future productions; therefore you will not be able to obtain your required hours.

Check the Calendar  You are responsible to know when you are assigned productions  Check the monthly calendar  Check the Crew Book Stage right desk.  Production dress = –Stage Arts shirt –Jeans, pants – no shorts –Shoes, no sandals –No hats

Specialty Areas  Lighting  Sound  Stage Craft  Stage and House Manager

Auditorium Specs  1,400 Seats  15 Exits Doors  Computer Lighting Board  Digital Sound Board  Professional Scene Shop  Professional Stage Rigging System  50’ wide, 50’deep stage

Career Opportunities  Sound Design and Operation  Lighting Design and Operation  Set Construction and Design  Stage Managing  Directing  College Scholarship Opportunities

Our Duty to the School  Take care of the Auditorium – Keep it clean  We are the Technical Support for the school  We take care of outside customers  Maintain the equipment  Build and design productions  Treat our customers with respect

The Equipment  Professional, industry standard  State of the art  Very expensive  Very delicate  My trust in you

The Auditorium:  It is a classroom  It is a hand – on learning environment  It is a professional theater $$$$$  It is the outside world’s impression of our school  It is our home. It is where we belong!  Keeping our home clean

Important Words  Ownership: an extension of who we are  Respect: Ourselves, each other, our program  Discipline: Doing it right the first time Do not Cut Corners! Do not Cut Corners!

Expectations  Know the Vocabulary – what things are called  Know the facility – where things are  Turn on the lights – stage Manager’s board, and cues  Turn on the microphones  Use the riggings – drapery, drops up and down  Hook up and run Stage Monitors  Show up on time for class and productions  Hook up and run clear - coms

Safety  Equipment is dangerous  People can and have been hurt  This is a professional theater  Treat the tools, and each other with respect  Audience members can and have been hurt

Parts of the Auditorium  Downstairs foyer: 4 doors  Upstairs foyer: 2 doors  Balcony: 2 doors ext., 2 door int., 600 seats  House: 4 int. 800 seats  Pit: 2 ext. doors  Dressing rooms: 2  Stage: 1  Shop: 2  Apron  Proscenium Arch  Wings  Fly  Shop: 2 ext. doors  Dressing Rooms  “Hell”  Loft  Props room  Special “Utility” room

Drapery  Legs – Hides the wings  Teaser – Hides the electrics  Main – Hides the main stage  Cyc – Reflects color  Fire curtain – Protects the audience  Drops  Riggings Brake Safety Safety 100 pounds 100 pounds

Lighting  Gel  Filter  Shutter  Lamp  Safety chain  “Locking”  “Focus”  “Reflector”  GOBO  GOBO holder  “Stage Pin” vs “Edison” cable “Coiling Cable” “Coiling Cable” “Stage Manager’s Board” “Stage Manager’s Board”  Baton  Boom  Electric  Fixtures

Dimmers Dimmer = Electrical Outlet Channel= The light Switch

“Patching” Plug in a lighting fixture to a dimmer Patch or connect a dimmer to a channel And you can turn the lighting fixture on and off

Ellipsoidal Named by the shape of the lens Frensel (Par) Border Lights (trays, strip) Provides color, mood Cyc Lights Halogen Lamps Follow Spot Safety Chain

Parts of the Fixtures The Yoke Shutters Cap Lens Gel Holder Inside the Cap: Reflector Lamp

Important Words  Ownership: an extension of who we are  Respect: Ourselves, each other, our program  Discipline: Doing it right the first time Do not Cut Corners! Do not Cut Corners!

Work Opportunities  Lighting  Sound  Stage Managing  House Manager  House Crew, Stage Crew  Set Construction

Basic Test  Parts of the Stage  Parts of the Aud.  Drapery  Plug in and turn on a microphone  Turn on lights using stage manager’s board  Patch in a lighting dimmer and run cue  Coil Cable, parts of cable  Parts of Rigging, and hands – on use