#school tech

let’s just start with what the hell fuck

no seriously what the hell fuck

we do e v e r y t h i n g

assembly? yeah let us just set out 700 odd chairs, somehow get our equipment that doesn’t work to magically work during that event whether one of us has to hold the wire in ~the place~ for the entire thing or not.

one time during a lunchtime showcase a kid kicked a speaker, yes, he kicked a speaker to look metal during his screamo performance

let me tell you he got a piece of my damn mind

he didn’t i can’t do that i would probably die if i did

no matter how many times we tell people if you are using a wireless mic PLEASE do not go infront of the speaker the feedback noise will happen

they do it anyway

it’s a nightmare chorus from the audience going “can the people on sound actually do their job?”

YES I CAN OKAY

enough cables? hell no, half of hours don’t work anyway or have been stolen by fellow students

( thanks guys real cool )

so annual musical rolls round early may and the ninth circle of HELL decides to open up it’s doors

i’m talking like actors yelling because they accidentally broke mics

us yelling because the actors are yelling

having to run on stage with a handheld temporary mic because a microphone broke MID PERFORMANCE

a funeral at some point probably

lighting board glitched out, temporary blackout for a solid 2 minutes

missed a sound effect cue, aaaaah yeah i think you can guess what unfolded

everyone ignoring our “please tell us a week in advance” rule and expecting us to do these extravagant set ups in less than a day

there are 7 of us who actually do stuff in the team the rest just dont show up

2 people doing a 10 person job? hhhhhhhH

i no longer have emotions, i have transcended stress

right so we finally convinced the school to give us a keycard that lets us around the school but we only have one,,,,, 

the tech team has 16 people in it ( when everyone shows up )

when we set up for events we need more than one

yet the head students get given 7 key cards

i GET that we aren’t professionals but seriously it’s frustrating

so myself and my friend were both running for head tech 2018 and we compromised and became co-head techs because we work well together

i’m glad we did because shit what the fuck

mine and my co head tech’s hours from this year were logged at 250, thats the amount of hours we remembered to log, there is probably another 50 we didn’t log

we weren’t even head techs at this point

sometimes it felt like the school had forgotten we were students first and foremost

it got to the point where if i actually was in class, the teacher called it a miracle

i missed a lot of class

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We were doing light hang today and finally got the chance to re-aim some of the stage lights. Some of those stage lights have not been touched since before I started going to my school (I've been at my school for 3, almost 4, years now). So we went up, adjusted the light, and took out the gels.

That there is a burned out gel. Who knew that could happen? Just goes to show how long it takes for a proper light hang to happen at our school.