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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