Not complaining at all. Because challenges make my brain happy when y can try to solve and troubleshoot. But I have NOTES. Hot mess backstage, no known way to get the audio and the lights to be controlled from in front of the stage. Proposed to use a video call to see what's happening behind me. Success!
Training consisted of 10 minutes of: this is how you create a cue/copy a cue/record a cue. Was able to create a sequence of cues. Very limited in what I could do with lights, so it was merely changing colors or turning them on or off in different arrangements. But it was working. So hurray!
Poking around made me discover how to hook computer to the shortest aux cable for line in. Now we had a way to get the audio for the music tracks. Started with looking for the MP3 in my PC folder, and waiting for Windows player to open each one . That sucked. Soundshow.exe to the rescue!!!! Audio cues were then available at the touch of a button! Did I learn to use much else on that? Nope. But I learned enough!
Found microphones, but we were never able to figure out how many of the dozens of plugs actually worked to hook them up, had no monitor for sound, had no wireless microphones to be found, and the wires mikes we found require almost licking them for them to pick up sound, so they were not going to work for picking up dialogue. Next year improvements!
And I did it. And realized if something had happened to me, there would have been no backup, which would have been terrible. We had a minimal team of adults.
Performance went well and now ...it's done? No more until next year?
Huge list of improvements to come and hopes and dreams, but this was a great experience.
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