Edinburgh

[Renal]

Hi everyone.

 

I'm a students association technician at a medical school in East London, as part of this, I'm going to the fringe with a small production and I'm bricking it.

 

This will be my first time in Edinburgh, my first time working without the (at least indirect) supervision of someone more senior and my first time working on my own as a technician.

 

Would someone whose done this before give me a few hints, tips and general pointers please. I'd kind of like to know what I've gotten meself into.

 

Cheers.

[JohnPartridge]

Keep yourself calm, and enjoy it. I remember my first none supervised job, you feel really nervous before hand but then the second the show begins all the nerves go and you will love every second of it.

If your doing lighting remember you are controlling the show so you can now do what you want to do and what the LD wants.

 

Good luck

you will storm it

 

John

[Renal]

Keep yourself calm, and enjoy it. I remember my first none supervised job, you feel really nervous before hand but then the second the show begins all the nerves go and you will love every second of it.

If your doing lighting remember you are controlling the show so you can now do what you want to do and what the LD wants.

 

Good luck

you will storm it

 

John

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ta very muchly.

 

For the record, I'm a combination designer, lighting tech and sound tech although I have been promised 'someone to give you a hand'. Does anyone know what kind of support I can expect from the venue?

[Russ]

Edinburgh is really easy because unless you have a big budget, you don't tend to have a whole lot of freedom in terms of design (yay for 5-minute get-ins).

 

As for what support you'll get, it depends a lot on the venue. Many of them have full-time technicians, who will tend to be rather bored for the reasons above :).

[gnomatron]

what venue?

[deranged-angel]

I worked at the Fringe fest 2 years ago for a venue. If your venue is anything like the one I worked at, you'll find the tech's are more than willing to give a hand. the main reason for this is that the money is so bad for working there, you have to either love doing tech stuff or be completely bonkers. A combination of both helps :(

 

Enjoy it- like Russ said, there's little to play with. You generally have a main rig that you can't touch then 3 or four specials that you can re-focus and gel to your liking. After that, it's basically use the lighting available.

 

You will have lots of fun-dont worry. When I went there, I had very little experience and I loved it. There's always someone around to help you out.

 

Have fun!!

 

Em

xxx

[Renal]

what venue?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Purple Venues, L'Attache Night Club.

 

Cheers again for the advice.

[Liquid Nik]

It's been a long time since I've "done" Edinburgh, (1983/4 to be precice). All I can add is you will have fun, dont worry you will survive and be wiser, and never be afraid to ask questions. Its better to admit a lack of knowledge than to be proven a fool through the application of ignorance !

[deranged-angel]

Haven't been to that venue. Best advice I can give is get a lighting plan, find out what equipment they are using-board etc also find out what their sound set up is so anything you don't understand, you can ask people on here :(

 

Also work out what you are going to use before you go. They run to VERY tight tech rehearsals so plan plan plan!!! (God, I sound like my manager who's been barking on about planning all damn month!!)

 

The more organised you are, the less stressed and therefore the more fun you can have and beer you can drink!! :)!!

 

Em

xxx

[Calder]

It's a small nightclub under a well known bar in the west end of Edinburgh. From memory they have some parcans on their stage as it is used for bands from time to time and the rest of the rig is disco tat.

 

Calder

[gnomatron]

normal day-to-day rigs and festival rigs are often quite different, though... some places become totally unrecognisable over the fest.