Craftswoman Central: When you’re a Scenic Charge Artist, you’re expected to wear a lot of hats. The job description seems obvious, but it’s quite a handful when you break it down. I know that this job varies between companies, but here is a basic overview of what you might have to do as a Scenic Charge Artist.
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Coming from a youth and educational theatre background, I have never worked with a scenic charge artist until coming here, so reading this article was very interesting because it gave me a view into a world of theatre that I really know nothing about. I would have thought this article would be more about the actual act of painting but it more about all of the prep work that goes into it. And I am glad that is what it was about because none of this is anything that I could have guessed goes into charging a show. Of course, I know that a scenic charge needs to be organized, but I never would have thought this much paperwork goes into charging a show. I think it is really interesting that all of the paperwork done for one show is just handwritten in a notebook, and it looks like she gets a new notebook for every show or at least every season. She really seems to have a system that works going on, and I hope that if there scenic charge artists out there who are new to the job or that that need a little help staying organized they find this article.
This really was a fascinating look into the world of a scenic charge. I guess I always assumed that these were things Beth knew as a professor not just as a paint charge, which makes the role of the charge more impressive. I completely understand writing in a notebook because a notebook never crashes, never runs out of battery and it is always right there with out, but you are in a paint shop, a shop by definition full of liquid, would not that just be asking for the master notebook to get ruined by something spilling on it. Also while she is very neat and with very nice handwriting, I still think a well formatted Excel spreadsheet would be the most effective way, then she would never have to switch notebooks. On that note the idea of paint recipes is something I never thought of as being a thing, but I guess it would make any process flow much more smoothly.
This is really neat! I see really good points made by Koritz while he's planning out his basement shop, including lighting and storage. The lighting in a shop is somehow important since people use their eyes to adjust everything. If you can't see the work on your hand, you can't do any kind of good craft to it. The other thing about lighting is the safety issue with insufficient lighting. Our shop in Purnell does have a good lighting, but from time to time we can still find people working in the dark which might lead to several harmful situation. The storage design in the shop is somehow single-person to me, they are designed to be use by a single and experience worker who knows how to establish one's working efficiency. Though they are neat and smart, they are not quite friendly for outsiders to recognize where to find the thing needed. In sum, this is a great showcase for how to build your own shop with your own fashion.
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