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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Carnegie Mellon University Students Get Behind-The-Scenes Look At Bon Jovi Concert At CONSOL Energy Center
CBS Pittsburgh: "The crew itself had an early audience as students from Carnegie Mellon University had their shot at an up close tour.
The technical aspects of the show were astounding. its good that cmu students were able to view the assembly because the complexity of the technical aspects i couldn't even fathom through the two and a half hour performance i attended friday night. unfortunately their was another sold out show saturday night so i wasn't able to view them strike the set after the performance which i tend to do. this is just one of the many opportunities we are able to have attending cmu schoool of drama. this is also great as we are not offered experiences in the rock work as much as dance and other mediums outside theatre.
I enjoyed seeing Jeremy and Kevin in the video, and hearing about this from other folks who went down there. I would have liked the article to talk more about how that connection came about, and possibly would have liked to hear from more students about specific things learned.
I agree with Jeremy that things within the SoD may be more limited to dance and theatre (although I have not had exposure to upperclassman classes pertaining to concerts); it's interesting to observe ABTech events because they take the rock 'n roll approach of fast load-ins (including establishing points and using motors as in concert touring) and outs. I think that other SoD students have realized the value in this as well, as at one point during the Lunar Gala load-in, there were more drama students in the room than non-drama students.
This seems like it would have been a great thing to go and see how they put a show like this together. I hope that Carnegie Mellon University school of drama continues this relationship with touring shows and maybe do this yearly or even more often then that. I would really like to be able to go to this and see the things that they are do. It is a shame that it is only open to upperclassmen. From the pictures that I have seen that were taken by the students it seemed really cool and interesting. These pictures provided me the ability to see things that I would not have been able to see if they where not allowed to take pictures.
I had the opportunity to spend the day at Consol and it was very educational. The 4 members of the production staff that we had the opportunity to talk with were very accessible. They all took time to share stories and they answered as many questions as we had. At no time did I feel like a burden or rushed along. They were a very chill group of individuals. They travel with 67 people and everyone else that we saw that day were local highers. We learned a lot about their crew issues and it is similar to what we experiance here at CMU. It was also encouraging to hear how highly everyone spoke about TAIT. And how my limited experience with the Navigator System still made me feel quite at home since it was they were running the shows automation on. I can not wait till CMU gets a giant robot arm for us to practice with.
As everyone above stated, we are very lucky to have these opportunities that most other students are not privileged to have. I spoke with a few of the people that got to go to the CONSOL center, and it seemed like the crew there really made them all feel at home and created a great environment for our students to come check out. I'm excited to be a part of future opportunities such as these to expand my knowledge of the inner workings of these types of jobs.
In response to Jared - yes, the technical aspects of the show were astounding, but the really cool thing is that I could actually understand how pretty much everything worked. I think that's one of the greatest things I took from the tour - that I have learned enough here at CMU to really grasp everything that goes into the staging for this show. If I had gone on that tour 3 years ago, when I first started the program, I would have been totally lost. I think it's fantastic that we had the opportunity to get such an in-depth tour.
I think that these touring crews do impressive work--I can only imagine how much planning, organization, and hard work goes into putting up and tearing down such a huge show multiple times a week. I am really glad that the School of Drama provided this opportunity for its students, and I hope that similar opportunities continue into the future. I would love to hear more about what you guys learned. Also, it seems like these tours are getting more and more media focused...I really like it, because I feel like projection and other media allows for so much variety. I bet it made this concert even better. I'd love to learn more about media here at Carnegie Mellon.
This is so fantastic, this is one of the reasons as to why I chose this program. Getting to see and work with professionals in different aspects of performance is truly a privilege and I hope one day I will get to observe something like this. It's also nice to have a different perspective on a different type of show because in the School of Drama we don't get to work with many concert like performance we mostly work on dance pieces and theater shows. I wish I could have gone and seen them set up. It was nice seeing CMU students talk about their experience seeing them set up for this show. They were truly lucky.
THis seemed like a really amazing opportunity. We here at CMU are really lucky to have so many connections to help make trips like these a possibility. The amount of work that goes into loading in and out a show of this magnitude is tremendous, and to be able to watch it all come together as an invited guest is a great opportunity. I wish it had been open to more PTM students, because I would have loved to have been there. As SM/PM students here we rarely have opportunities like this, so to have been able to take advantage of that would have been nice.
This outing definitely got a few more bodies to the concert itself, though, by peaking interest in how it would all be used, and how the lights and media would be integrated. It sounds like it would have been a fun show.
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The technical aspects of the show were astounding. its good that cmu students were able to view the assembly because the complexity of the technical aspects i couldn't even fathom through the two and a half hour performance i attended friday night. unfortunately their was another sold out show saturday night so i wasn't able to view them strike the set after the performance which i tend to do. this is just one of the many opportunities we are able to have attending cmu schoool of drama. this is also great as we are not offered experiences in the rock work as much as dance and other mediums outside theatre.
I enjoyed seeing Jeremy and Kevin in the video, and hearing about this from other folks who went down there. I would have liked the article to talk more about how that connection came about, and possibly would have liked to hear from more students about specific things learned.
I agree with Jeremy that things within the SoD may be more limited to dance and theatre (although I have not had exposure to upperclassman classes pertaining to concerts); it's interesting to observe ABTech events because they take the rock 'n roll approach of fast load-ins (including establishing points and using motors as in concert touring) and outs. I think that other SoD students have realized the value in this as well, as at one point during the Lunar Gala load-in, there were more drama students in the room than non-drama students.
This seems like it would have been a great thing to go and see how they put a show like this together. I hope that Carnegie Mellon University school of drama continues this relationship with touring shows and maybe do this yearly or even more often then that. I would really like to be able to go to this and see the things that they are do. It is a shame that it is only open to upperclassmen. From the pictures that I have seen that were taken by the students it seemed really cool and interesting. These pictures provided me the ability to see things that I would not have been able to see if they where not allowed to take pictures.
I had the opportunity to spend the day at Consol and it was very educational. The 4 members of the production staff that we had the opportunity to talk with were very accessible. They all took time to share stories and they answered as many questions as we had. At no time did I feel like a burden or rushed along. They were a very chill group of individuals. They travel with 67 people and everyone else that we saw that day were local highers. We learned a lot about their crew issues and it is similar to what we experiance here at CMU. It was also encouraging to hear how highly everyone spoke about TAIT. And how my limited experience with the Navigator System still made me feel quite at home since it was they were running the shows automation on. I can not wait till CMU gets a giant robot arm for us to practice with.
As everyone above stated, we are very lucky to have these opportunities that most other students are not privileged to have. I spoke with a few of the people that got to go to the CONSOL center, and it seemed like the crew there really made them all feel at home and created a great environment for our students to come check out. I'm excited to be a part of future opportunities such as these to expand my knowledge of the inner workings of these types of jobs.
In response to Jared - yes, the technical aspects of the show were astounding, but the really cool thing is that I could actually understand how pretty much everything worked. I think that's one of the greatest things I took from the tour - that I have learned enough here at CMU to really grasp everything that goes into the staging for this show. If I had gone on that tour 3 years ago, when I first started the program, I would have been totally lost. I think it's fantastic that we had the opportunity to get such an in-depth tour.
I think that these touring crews do impressive work--I can only imagine how much planning, organization, and hard work goes into putting up and tearing down such a huge show multiple times a week. I am really glad that the School of Drama provided this opportunity for its students, and I hope that similar opportunities continue into the future. I would love to hear more about what you guys learned. Also, it seems like these tours are getting more and more media focused...I really like it, because I feel like projection and other media allows for so much variety. I bet it made this concert even better. I'd love to learn more about media here at Carnegie Mellon.
This is so fantastic, this is one of the reasons as to why I chose this program. Getting to see and work with professionals in different aspects of performance is truly a privilege and I hope one day I will get to observe something like this. It's also nice to have a different perspective on a different type of show because in the School of Drama we don't get to work with many concert like performance we mostly work on dance pieces and theater shows. I wish I could have gone and seen them set up. It was nice seeing CMU students talk about their experience seeing them set up for this show. They were truly lucky.
THis seemed like a really amazing opportunity. We here at CMU are really lucky to have so many connections to help make trips like these a possibility. The amount of work that goes into loading in and out a show of this magnitude is tremendous, and to be able to watch it all come together as an invited guest is a great opportunity. I wish it had been open to more PTM students, because I would have loved to have been there. As SM/PM students here we rarely have opportunities like this, so to have been able to take advantage of that would have been nice.
This outing definitely got a few more bodies to the concert itself, though, by peaking interest in how it would all be used, and how the lights and media would be integrated. It sounds like it would have been a fun show.
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