Andy! Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Hey I am doing techincal option drama, GCSE. But so far I have done very little techical projects. Does anyone know of a site were I can get lighting projects to do work on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranged-angel Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Does it have to be outside of school?If not, perhaps if your school is have a fundraising event or something similar you could help out with that and do the sound and lighting. The best would be if they had a karaoke afternoon. We had one in our school and you pay so much to sing a song and all proceeds go to charity. It was a good laugh. Also people pay soemthing to come in to the hall. Would be quite technical as you would need to set up mic's, cue backing track and maybe even have a few lighting cue's in there. Good luck!! Emxxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smeggie Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 where are you based? - possible someone could give you work experience in a show? cheersandrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ike Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Well his profile says Watford... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy! Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 Yeah I am from a school in watford Francis Combe School , and I have done loads of tech work out of class like the year shows parties other peoples lighting everything. But I just wondered like is there a certain thing I could study in the lesson? or a task of some sort?Thanks!Any more questions PM me or Email me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Hi,I dont Drama tech option last year, the way we worked it was that at the end of the module/section each group in the class performed the piece including lighting. As there were 6 groups, what I was told to do by the teacher was to focus (no pun intended!!) on one group (go for the best!) and concentrate on lighting them, but also do 'rough' lighting for the rest. During class times I mainly talked with the groups to see what they wanted tech-wise and read lighting books to pass the time. As long as the cue sheets etc were done, until the performance there was very little to do.As I did the technical option for a few of the performing modules and provided the write-ups for them, I done the actual exam as the rest of the class following advice from the teacher, because apparently the technical bits quite hard.Oh - another thing that really helped me was to be given a copy of the sylibus for the lighting part, (avaliable from the exam boards website) as this meant I could study this during lessons and tick of what I had done etc.Hope this helps,Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy! Posted April 17, 2004 Author Share Posted April 17, 2004 Thanks Chris!But in our class we have very very little people! so it is very hard to do that but ill suggest the idea to the teacher! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Andy, I did GCSE lighting... and I'm not sure if it's still the same procedure... but the way we worked it was that I did all the improvisation and stuff and critical analysis of shows etc, when it came to the lighting side of it I did the lighting design and operation for the various performances from the rest of the group and then at the end I did a presentation to the examiner about lighting using a powerpoint slide show on a projector. I bassically told the examiner everything I knew about lighting and even took him round the stage and control room explaining how lighting works. I don't know if this was any help but I got 40 out of 40 in the presentation so it worked for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy! Posted April 18, 2004 Author Share Posted April 18, 2004 Yeah I heard about that presentation part yeah I have some good ldeas about it. Also I am hopfully gonig to try and use wysiwyg and try and impress the examiner that way! thanks for your advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leesm Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Hi,I did GCSE Drama paper 3 tech, back in april 2002. long time ago!!I did the sound option and a friend of mine did the lx option. We worked it like, each of us did one group each and we designed for them. Then the other groups were sorted out by the school emplyed technician. This system is still going now.I got 40/40 or was it 39/40, I cant remember! and I was used for examiner material thefollowing year so I was told!I really enjoyed it, and after I went to do a Btec in PA (Production) at the same place, just finshing it now. And going to Guildhall in September to study stage management/Tech theatre! So all wored out!!!Good Luck!!Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranged-angel Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I did GCSE Drama paper 3 tech, back in april 2002. long time ago!! jeeez how old do I feel now?! emxxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 jeeez how old do I feel now?!don't worry em, it just gets worse :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potassium Neuf Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 I did GCSE Drama paper 3 tech, back in april 2002. long time ago!!GCSE's ?2002, a long time ago ? I have vague recollections of doing my 'O' levels (as they were called way back then) in the sizzling summer of '77 ... ... my 'A' levels in '79 ... ... and my finals at Warwick in '82 :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_hunt Posted July 31, 2004 Share Posted July 31, 2004 im doing gcse drama at the moment and our teacher knows that I want to do tech when I leave school and failed to tell the class we could do this option instead. I can act but I would rather be behind the scenes and so in sept I will go and ask her if I can opt for that instead because I find that I get shy and find it hard to remember lines when there are alot of people watchning, not the best things for an acter has anyone found there teacher said no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 I have vague recollections of doing my 'O' levels (as they were called way back then) in the sizzling summer of '77 ... You quite sure Mr Neuf? '76 sizzled (Minister for Drought etc), and my O levels were in '77, but I don't recollect it being that hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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