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Heh. Now i'm wondering how many people have done lights and sound during high school. I'm in high school now and i did lights for a recent production. And ended up doing sound for a bit too. The sound guys are good though. At least the 3 guys that came in every so often. Playing 'still alive' over the studio speakers sounded so much than my own speakers, and the hall speakers sounded even better.

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That is the fun of having the control tech in the auditorium. Being the sound guys were just plain incompetent at my school for a couple of shows I ended up running a light board, a minimixer linked to the sound board, a com controller, an MD fx player, and a keyboard at once.....Thank god I am done with that.......

The fun was in rehearsal, one of the actors was playing the character " the sandman" and had this whole dance scene with a classical soundtrack to dance to. I got bored and played Metallica's "Enter Sandman" when he came out for his dance during the rehearsal. He almost fell off the stage..... so funny. ( It didnt hurt the situation that he seemed to think he could do my job better than me even though he didn't have the slightest clue what a "lumen" was.....

Ok, i would probably die if i had to manage all that.. I'm glad the ones i worked with were good - the rest of them (as a general group, it seems) seem to mess up so often that we're (as a school, i think) surprised when they manage to do more than 'put cd in player and press play when someone says to' correctly.

As for lighting and the like, they were generally 'you can do stuff like that? Wow.' Apparently, the only thing i did differently was to read the manual for the lighting board. Our rehearsals were quite strange... 6pm to 12pm, with a lot of pauses isn't good when you still have to go home and do homework (i don't care, uni has to better than high school in terms of workload, right?) i ende up reading the manual something like 4 times. Considering that it was a new board and i had 2 weeks and 18 hours each week to get used to it, i was happy when i sat during the performance going 'ok. Next cue... Now!' and pulling it off.

Anyway, what's the strangest thing you've seen done ever?
I'm seen 'them' run a video feed (to be projected on a screen so the people at the back can see what's going on) through the mic cables up to the control room when the camera was literally 10m away. Makes me wonder what other stuff they're doing which would make me go 'why in the world would they do that!?'

Also, sorry for the lack of capitalization at the moment - i'm typing this on my phone because i put my laptop in my mom's closet as i'm supposed to be studying (exams, they are not fun), not surfing the web. I'm not sure they know my phone has wi-fi though, but i still have it, so, yay.