Good afternoon! I actually have time to post on my lunch break - it's glorious.
We went in at 8am this morning, back to the lovely Robinson Theater to finish out load in for the third rep. I got to sleep off my sickness yesterday afternoon for four hours, and slept pretty well last night, but I am still dragging. My head is a little foggy and I'm still coughing. I'd like to think I have my strength back and can work along with everyone, but let me tell you - I was shaking pretty bad by the time lunch rolled around. Luckily, when we go back we have a short afternoon and just cleaning to do. Hopefully I will get to sit down.
But anyway. We left the Robinson on Sunday with the electrics hung along with half the goods. So this morning it was right back to the grid for Chris, while the rest of us started pulling out the goods. We had three sets of legs to hand, a full black out, and two borders to get situated. We had trouble with the border and the blackout at first - they were getting caught on the spine of the cables running to one of the empty electrics. I had to transfer the crosbies over from the now empty line-set to the original placement of the electric, so I am thinking I must have dropped the spine a little bit so not it's getting in the way. We were going to move it back up to it's original position, but we aren't using that electric for this rep, so we just flew it to the grid and figured we would deal with it later. Once that was out of the way, everything came in pretty smoothly. One of the batons was a few inches stage left of center, but Robert moved it over on his own so we didn't have any trouble with it, really.
Once the goods were done, we moved on to taking care of electrics business. Katie and Chris worked on the 4 booms while Sean and I worked on the 1 and 2Beams in the catwalks. There was a minor misunderstanding on the 1Beam with the reference points for the lights. Jarrod told me the light that was channel 4 on the last rep was now unit 14 on this rep. But where I had hung the light for channel 4 was stage right of center. And it was supposed to be stage left. No one had noticed or called me out on my mistake, so we went through the whole run with it wrong, and it didn't throw us off until now. Funny how that worked out. So instead, we used the center light as a reference which worked a lot easier and we got all of the spacing and everything right. We only missed one light - the lights on either side of center were supposed to be two-fered, with the light at center in between them. But we missed the second light in the twofer. So when Sean was dropping color, we had an extra gel. But instead of thinking that something might be missing, we just ignored it and moved on. But when we got to channel check, there was a light missing. So I had to go up and check, and finally noticed on the paperwork that there should be two lights two-fered instead of just one light. It was an easy fix to cable and label and everything. So we got that working. Jarrod reminded us that we don't get extra color and that the extra gel should have been a warning sign - one of those things where I need to start being aware of my surroundings. I'm getting better, I think, but I have a ways to go I suppose.
But besides that, the 2Beam was hung just fine. I cabled and labeled while Sean dropped color. Then we went down and worked on the booms. Katie and Chris got the light hung, but they were circuited wrong. So Sean and I went through and re-circuited and labeled everything correctly. Jarrod did the channel check while I finalized the labeling on the booms, and then we moved on to the cleaning process.
We had to put two 40 degree Shakespeares on floor stands. Jarrod had told me to grab two stands that were in good shape - so I took the only two in the light booth. They looked like they were in good shape, just pretty dirty. So I cleaned them once they were down, but then all the chips in the black paint were noticeable. So Katie had to paint them. It was a little glitch, but it didn't take too much time. Then, we put the extra barrels on the source-4s and put their yolks back to the standard sized (they were all shortened in order to be on the booms). Once they were all back to their original form, we packed the rental box to get the lights out of the way. Everything has to be recorded as it gets packed so we know everything is accounted for and that it goes back to the right place. Once that was done, we cleaned up some other lights that were sitting around and sorted and replaced the gels from the last rep. The scene shop is looking like it's in pretty good shape so far. Once we go back from lunch, we are going to sort a bunch of multi cable and get that in order - more cleaning so that the shop is even cleaner when the company comes in tomorrow.
So, we're just wrapping up the load in pretty much. Tomorrow we get back in to focusing and programming, and then we're right back in to show calls for the last rep. It should be an easy few days. Sunday starts strike week for the festival and then we're outta here. It's crazy how fast everything is going.
Check back in the evening for the post-lunch update - shouldn't be anything too crazy, but we'll see.
We went in at 8am this morning, back to the lovely Robinson Theater to finish out load in for the third rep. I got to sleep off my sickness yesterday afternoon for four hours, and slept pretty well last night, but I am still dragging. My head is a little foggy and I'm still coughing. I'd like to think I have my strength back and can work along with everyone, but let me tell you - I was shaking pretty bad by the time lunch rolled around. Luckily, when we go back we have a short afternoon and just cleaning to do. Hopefully I will get to sit down.
But anyway. We left the Robinson on Sunday with the electrics hung along with half the goods. So this morning it was right back to the grid for Chris, while the rest of us started pulling out the goods. We had three sets of legs to hand, a full black out, and two borders to get situated. We had trouble with the border and the blackout at first - they were getting caught on the spine of the cables running to one of the empty electrics. I had to transfer the crosbies over from the now empty line-set to the original placement of the electric, so I am thinking I must have dropped the spine a little bit so not it's getting in the way. We were going to move it back up to it's original position, but we aren't using that electric for this rep, so we just flew it to the grid and figured we would deal with it later. Once that was out of the way, everything came in pretty smoothly. One of the batons was a few inches stage left of center, but Robert moved it over on his own so we didn't have any trouble with it, really.
Once the goods were done, we moved on to taking care of electrics business. Katie and Chris worked on the 4 booms while Sean and I worked on the 1 and 2Beams in the catwalks. There was a minor misunderstanding on the 1Beam with the reference points for the lights. Jarrod told me the light that was channel 4 on the last rep was now unit 14 on this rep. But where I had hung the light for channel 4 was stage right of center. And it was supposed to be stage left. No one had noticed or called me out on my mistake, so we went through the whole run with it wrong, and it didn't throw us off until now. Funny how that worked out. So instead, we used the center light as a reference which worked a lot easier and we got all of the spacing and everything right. We only missed one light - the lights on either side of center were supposed to be two-fered, with the light at center in between them. But we missed the second light in the twofer. So when Sean was dropping color, we had an extra gel. But instead of thinking that something might be missing, we just ignored it and moved on. But when we got to channel check, there was a light missing. So I had to go up and check, and finally noticed on the paperwork that there should be two lights two-fered instead of just one light. It was an easy fix to cable and label and everything. So we got that working. Jarrod reminded us that we don't get extra color and that the extra gel should have been a warning sign - one of those things where I need to start being aware of my surroundings. I'm getting better, I think, but I have a ways to go I suppose.
But besides that, the 2Beam was hung just fine. I cabled and labeled while Sean dropped color. Then we went down and worked on the booms. Katie and Chris got the light hung, but they were circuited wrong. So Sean and I went through and re-circuited and labeled everything correctly. Jarrod did the channel check while I finalized the labeling on the booms, and then we moved on to the cleaning process.
We had to put two 40 degree Shakespeares on floor stands. Jarrod had told me to grab two stands that were in good shape - so I took the only two in the light booth. They looked like they were in good shape, just pretty dirty. So I cleaned them once they were down, but then all the chips in the black paint were noticeable. So Katie had to paint them. It was a little glitch, but it didn't take too much time. Then, we put the extra barrels on the source-4s and put their yolks back to the standard sized (they were all shortened in order to be on the booms). Once they were all back to their original form, we packed the rental box to get the lights out of the way. Everything has to be recorded as it gets packed so we know everything is accounted for and that it goes back to the right place. Once that was done, we cleaned up some other lights that were sitting around and sorted and replaced the gels from the last rep. The scene shop is looking like it's in pretty good shape so far. Once we go back from lunch, we are going to sort a bunch of multi cable and get that in order - more cleaning so that the shop is even cleaner when the company comes in tomorrow.
So, we're just wrapping up the load in pretty much. Tomorrow we get back in to focusing and programming, and then we're right back in to show calls for the last rep. It should be an easy few days. Sunday starts strike week for the festival and then we're outta here. It's crazy how fast everything is going.
Check back in the evening for the post-lunch update - shouldn't be anything too crazy, but we'll see.
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