How To Talk To Non-Techies
SoundGirls: There’s nothing like an international project where you’re working remotely to highlight the importance of clear communications – especially when you have to entrust the sound play out to colleagues who admit to knowing nothing about sound.
I recently worked on a work-in-progress show where the company rehearsed and performed in France and I designed the sound remotely from my studio in London. My task was to create the sound design and programme it into the play out system (QLab) ready for the stage manager to operate. Budget constraints meant it wasn’t possible for me to attend any of the rehearsals or the final performances. I had to create a complex and reactive sound design without watching any of the rehearsals and without seeing the venue, then trust to the company of performers to make it work in the venue without me.
The Most Important, Invisible Person in the Theater: The Stage Manager
L.A. Weekly: Easy to ignore is the one player who should never be ignored — the woman ever so quietly pushing a table into place on the stage and setting on the table a few props, rubber representations of knives, a bowl. And, at some distance from the table, setting up a video camera, which will be pivotal to the play's action. That player is Megan Crockett, the stage manager.
Hand Injury Statistics: Cost of Hand Injuries in the Workplace
www.superiorglove.com: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that cuts and laceration injuries – some of the most common work injuries to the hands – accounted for 4,120 job transfer or restriction cases in 2012.
Cuts and lacerations on average resulted in six working days lost to job transfer or restrictions for the injured worker.Patti LuPone Makes Passionate Statement Regarding AT&T Football Tweet
Playbill.com: Olivier and two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone, who is currently filming the new season of the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful," has issued a statement to Playbill.com regarding the recent AT&T tweet that suggested theatregoers watch a football game on their cell phones during a live performance.
Five Entertainment Tech Trends You Need to Know
Variety: Entertainment technology has shrunk time and space over the centuries, preserving performances for posterity and allowing them to be seen far away from the performance venue. The next generation of tech promises to deliver to audiences ever-more-lifelike screen images, to give filmmakers and shutterbugs alike more flexibility at less cost, to take audiences to places they could never go — and even to change the way audiences perceive reality in real time.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
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