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Today was our last day in the space before the actors come in on Monday. We were supposed to be in there focusing, but due to two members of our department being absent we didn’t have enough people to carry out the job. This has now put us behind and we are going to try and focus very quickly first thing on Monday, before the actors come in. It also means I do not have any time on the desk before we have to start teching the show which was time I wanted to set up some groups and palletes and familiarise myself with the rig in general.

I instead used this time to  learn about colour calls. A colour call is a document created when by going through the lighting plan and deciding what colour gel should be in each light (or if it's open white.) You then note down how many pieces of gel are needed in each colour and and which size. This is the colour call Mike and I made for the show:

We then went to the Lx store to source and cut all of the gel. After accurately cutting all of the gel to the right size i used a special pencil tom mark the gel with a number. Gel's all have a specific number to represent the colour that they are. I labelled them so that after the show we can file them and they can be used again.

In the afternoon I practiced the bowline knot and went through the brief. I also learnt about the relationship between amps, volts and watts.

Wattage - a measurement of electrical power.

Voltage - a measurement of the strength or force of the electrical current.

Amplitude - a measurement of the size of an electrical current.

You can work out any one of these by multiplying or subtracting it from the other two:

Watts = volts x amps

Amps = watts / volts

Today we rigged in the auditorium for oh what a lovely war. This is the lighting plan:

Today was the fashion show, and I was in charge of plotting and operating the desk for the event. The first thing I did was get the Ion from the venue and set it up:

I started by patching in all of the generic lights and six mac 250 washes. I then created a preset state for when the audience would enter the auditorium. After this I simply created states as I saw fit whilst they did a staggered run through of the show, I ended up with 13 cues in total.

I think that the show in terms of lighting went well and now that I have opped my first show I feel more confident for the upcoming end of year show.

This is the running order for the show:

These were my cues:

And these were the states I created:

Cue 0.5 - Preset: (This was for the audience to walk in)

Cue 0.6 - Song intro: (The lights faded down to just a dim blue wash on the band as they start playing, signals the beginning of the show.)

Cue 0.8 - Vocals: (As the Vocalists begin singing, a red wash comes up on the band.)

Cue 0.9 - Effect: (At a random point in the song -Whenever the dsm decides- an effect starts using the mac 250 washes. This continues for the remainder of the song.)

Cue 1.0 - End of song: As the song ends and the bass player begins to introduce the first collection, a light wash comes over the band.)

Cue 2.0 - Skirts project: (As the introduction of the first collection finishes and the song begins a blue wash lights the catwalk. and the boom lights pick up the t-shirt hanging in the wings.)

Cue 2.5: (This cue is a automatic follow on of the previous cue, after being in the previous state for 5 seconds the mac 250 washes that are on the floor, move into position for there next cue. I put the transition here as at this point the lights are off and so you do not see the beams moving.)

Cue 3.0 - KIDS: (As the second collection is introduced and the next song begins, a green wash lights the catwalk.)

Cue 3.5 - Rita Ora: (The next collection is introduced and then next song begins and the green wash changes to red.)

Cue 4.0 - final collection: (The final collection is introduced and the next song starts, an orangey-red wash lights the catwalk and the fiery gobo lights the cyc and treads)

Cue 5.0 - Lost in music: (The end Walkdown commences, the models come down the stage right treads walk around the catwalk and then off using the stage left treads. The next song begins, the lights for this are multi-coloured and flashing to give a disco type feel.)

Cue 6.0 - Blue out: (A very dim blue wash lights the front of the catwalk to signal the end of the show.)

Cue 7.0 - End preset: (Exactly the same as the first state for the audience to leave.)