Chris Duncan Tuesday 11 th October 2011 StageSoc Training

 Intro to how SUSU Performing Arts works  How a show is decided on  How to get involved  Some of the things you will hear us talk about  A typical show week  Some of our equipment  Stores  Venues

 Performing Arts (PA)  Societies Committee (SC)  StageSoc  Theatre Group (TG)  Showstoppers  LOpSoc  Others...

 Production Teams  Director/s or Assistant Director  Producer/s  Musical Director (MD)  Choreographer  Pitch  Performing society committee vote  Auditions  Company is created!

 Role  Part of the production team  Joins as early as possible  Helps with budgets  Recruit a design team and crew  Liaison between production and designers and crew  Looks after StageSoc and our equipment  Some paperwork for the technical aspects (e.g. risk assessment)  A very central role

 StageSoc committee will advertise the position  Send in your pitch, go to the meeting etc  StageSoc committee and liaison members vote

 Once TD elected they recruit a design team  The design team will meet together with TD and director, discuss ideas etc. (Usually TD gets ideas from director and feeds them down)  Design team read through their scripts, go to rehearsals, start to put ideas together etc  Meetings with the TD and director will continue.

 A few weeks before the show, crew recruited by TD (usually through forum on website)  Designers start to show their ideas to crew so set building or any prep work can take place.  Set painting, building, prop finding, costume making, effect tests etc

 Sun – Get In all day, put LX up, set up sound, put set in.  Mon – Tech rehearsal, a chance for us to get everything right  Tues – Dress rehearsal, run a close to how a show will run as possible  Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat – Shows! Possible a matinee or poss. a night off!  Sat night – Get Out, ready for next show.

 The Annex/Arts H  Nuffield Theatre  Turner Sims  Union  West Ref/Garden Court  Bridge  Cube

 Lighting – Large stock of lights, LX desk, extra dimmers, some practical electrics (practicals)  Sound – Installed PA, sound desk, extra speakers/monitors and amps, mics and stands, cables multicore, show relay.  Stage – Comms (cans), tabs, blacks, large stock of flats, loads of wood, many many props & costumes.  Misc – large selection of power tools, other tools, 2 ladders, paint

 Big Store – Flats, wood, staging  Small Store – Tools, ladders  Box – Lights, sound equipment, desks, cables etc  Lift Store– Incoming show store  House – Furniture, wood, props, costume

 Too much to tell you about now but we do loads!!!  Getting involved is the best way to learn how things work – we are here to help you!  TG Freshers’ play  Hope this give you a good starting point.  Any questions?

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