Any Techies here?

americanCat

Anyone here do tech work (aka construction, lighting, paint, etc.) for any shows????

bucks

Used to do lighting and sound (still do the odd bit)
Mainly doing rigging for events all over the country now.

Ive done very little work in theatre though as the money isnt great in that area.
Mostly concerts and corporate gigs.

Zeppie

Erm ...well am kinda a techie

Well I dunno I haven't done all that much work outside of college tho I do enjoy it. Have been offered some jobs recently on some profit share shows, cant afford the time off work to do them tho.

Would be more into the lighting side of it myself not really done much on the sound side of things I never really seemed to get the hang of it.

Did you study at all? If so where?

Talliesin

Nope, but back in my school days I got out of a few classes because I was about the only person who could work out how to make the lights do anything other than fully on and fully off.

bucks

Zeppie wrote:

Did you study at all? If so where?

Did a bit of study up in Dublin in the areas of live sound and stage lighting.
Studying is great to learn the theory about how things work etc.. but the best learning is on the job training doing the gigs.

Im a practical person and was never one for the books, if someone told me via a book how to do something it wouldnt have the same result as if someone showed me practically how to do something.

Zeppie

Totally agree with u bucks....practical is the only way to go!

The college course I did had alot of practical aspects to it, we produced 3 shows a year along with lighting and sound for any other events in college. It was pretty cool ....infact in kinda miss those days