lxjoe Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I know what what a lx does but I don't know what the x stands for. I know ld means: lighting designer. I have been one before but I do not undersatnd what lx stands for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 lx (the job) = electrician (as in theatre electrician) Shortened from 'electrics' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Electrics > "Elecs" > L X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willdoweuk Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I heard it was lighting effects> LX sound effects > SFX Effects > FX etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I heard it was lighting effects> LXNope, definitely not. Many theatre have fly-bars labelled LX1, LX2 etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oovis Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 but I do not undersatnd what lx stands for.A bit brave calling yourself lxjoe if you don't know what it stands for, eh? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrturner4 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I know what what a lx does but I don't know what the x stands for. I know ld means: lighting designer. I have been one before but I do not undersatnd what lx stands for. I am really struggling how to imagine you being a "lighting designer" if you don't know what LX stands for ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willdoweuk Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I know what what a lx does but I don't know what the x stands for. I know ld means: lighting designer. I have been one before but I do not undersatnd what lx stands for. I am really struggling how to imagine you being a "lighting designer" if you don't know what LX stands for ..... What does it stand for then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 It doesn't stand for anything. It is not an acronym. It's an abbreviation of electrics, as indicated above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptrturner4 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I know what what a lx does but I don't know what the x stands for. I know ld means: lighting designer. I have been one before but I do not undersatnd what lx stands for. I am really struggling how to imagine you being a "lighting designer" if you don't know what LX stands for ..... What does it stand for then? it stands for Electrics or the "spell it as it sounds" "Elecs", as yes indicated above . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_s Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Hence also why you'll sometimes hear lighting cues given as 'Electrics cue __' over cans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I despair, I really do... OP, according to your profile you're on an industry related course and are attached in some way to a theatre, yet are here asking such basic questions as this?Sorry - we don't mind basics being queried, but this one sort of takes the biscuit. Mods - I rather think we've done and overdone this biscuit - dancing locks?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossmck Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 To quickly get in one more definition before mods close the thread ; ) LX is definitely "Electrics" but if someone asks for "LX" as an item it'd typically be "electrical tape" or "insulating tape" (that lovely multi-coloured PVC stuff that has 1000s of uses from coiling cables neatly, marking stages, marking desks, marking well anything other than cast really ;)) Ynot makes a good, and worrying point though ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramdram Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Some interesting replies...here's another one and it's all to do with saving time and possibly money. We used to use "terms" such as tx which would stand for transmission or possibly even transmitter or (to use "proper" BBCspik) certain shortwave transmitters were known as "Senders", a hangover from Colonial days no doubt. These transmissions would also be known as "bx" which meant broadcast....which in turn would be picked up on an rx which would mean receiver. It might mean also reception. After a few months indoctrination into an organisation you would just know the context. In short (groan) the "x" represented the rest of the word. It may have been used as a device to save money on telegrams by other organisation across the planet in days gone by, aeons before the internet arrived and cheaper communication charges. On thing is certain, LX is not unique in any sense of the word. It is just quicker to say or write LX than Lighting Electrician....electrician or sparkie or stage sparks. Same as LD is quicker than Lighting Designer. It may be the OP has not come across the term because the "tutor" does not use it. However if the OP and similar folk had "work" experience from the school/amdram/volunteer route then he or she would be more likely to be au fait with said terms anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior8 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 In short (groan) the "x" represented the rest of the word. It may have been used as a device to save money on telegrams by other organisation across the planet in days gone by, aeons before the internet arrived and cheaper communication charges. Pax for passenger is another example. I think you are almost certainly right about the telegram business. Indeed many firms with substantial export trades had codes where an entire spec could be described in a two or three word cable. (For example I wonder if Kerry could work out what Savages would have supplied in response to this order? One Colonial Oriel One Sixtral Trackless!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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