Relentless Preparation Pays Off - Sunday

From my Notes ;

I'm sitting in the theater- it's early on Sunday morning - I'm here close to 9am - sipping a coffee
and pondering the vast amount of personal energy, knowledge and collaborative "thinking" that a production tech person needs for all of this-- One has to be able to work as a piece of a big machine...in charge of an unformed puzzle.

TB has asked the early people to turn on the projectors and camera's and see if they are working...The personal laptops are unpacked and set up on the tech table-and the Mac Pro's are disconnected and repackaged.

Someone in our team (class) has made sure we have the daily schedule - for NYU and another table that shows Across the Ether as a complete production, -an 8 column table which features six characteristics; - the names of the pieces, it's description, ensemble size, the personel - if there is visualization that goes along with it - and the time it will happen - this is a good thing. We also have a Stage Production List which is a "who does what" guide of the class members.

Aside from the production itself,and it being one of the first of it's kind, the major lesson of this experience is to fully see how important the preparation process is in matters of this kind. Unfor-see-able issues ...like the one which occurred in Across the Ether was that the new Mac Pros were incompatible with the video data...this threw us off schedule. Audio connections with the other schools was an issue - we were able to see them but not hear them.

Theater Techniques:
We had to mark the stage with special colored tape -all the instrument positions especially the 9 ft. grand had to be placed in two different locations -one must how a 9 ft grand is going to be placed when there are dancers and a percussion ensemble performing.

By 2PM The performers began drifting in - and the theater changed into "rehearsal mode" -with dancers warming up.The NYU Percussion Ensemble took stage to have a run through -

I put on my head sets and snap the controls onto my belt -and as i look through the LCD monitor, I am certainly part of this digital multimedia world -- Camera one is responsible
for recording the entire piece from the back of the house- center stage-while cameras two and three are stage left and stage right.