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Working Log: Cue Sheets

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During technical rehearsals I produced a working document lighting cue sheet. I used this in alignment with the lighting desk and wrote down the series of lighting states and the cue for each state to change. After all tech and dress rehearsal's all annotations were taken into account and a typed version of the cue sheet was produced for the LX operator to use on the night of the performance.

 

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This final typed document is important as it is very thorough and detailed and so in the event of an absence of the LX operator who was present at rehersals, a new LX would be able to read the cue sheets and still operate LX for t he performance.

Working Log: Focus Notes

 

 

The lighting designer produced focus notes for us to use during a rigging session. This would indicate the channel the designer wanted each light to be grouped with. For example, to speed up the plotting session, all back lights would be grouped together. However, due to the performance space change, we added to this plan, and adapted accordingly. The far right column indicates which socket the light was plugged into.

 

 

It was very important to edit the focus notes as a working document, so grouping the lights would be quicker and easier.

 

Below is an image of me plotting.

 



Working Log: Edited Lighting Plan

 

 

The above image is the adapted lighting plan which takes into account specific changes that had to be made.

 

Due to blocking and staging issues, the director of the performance chose to switch the performance area, by doing this, it meant that the original lighting plan was back to front, this caused numerous issues which we had to overcome during the rigging session. These included:

·         Re-patch- Altering the back light with the 1Ks

·         Repositioning the Booms

·         Repositioning aspects of the set (Christmas Trees etc.)

·         General washes needed to be reversed using the 650 Fresnels

·         Repositioning relevant profiles

The original plan was useful as it allowed to us to create a live working document, which in turn aided the plotting process and technical rehearsals.

 

 

Below is an image of me rigging a light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Working Log: Original Lighting Plan

 

 

The lighting designer produced a lighting plan which highlighted where they wanted specific lights to be rigged and focussed. The lighting designer discussed this plan with us during the rigging process.

Working Log: Colour Call

 

 

 

Whilst rigging lights, the crew would have a copy of a colour call, produced by the lighting designer which details both the appropriate gel colour and relevant light the gels will be assigned to.

The above colour call was altered during a rigging session. The lighting designer desired the gel number 103, however due to a lack of this gel in stock, we replaced them with 205, which closely resembles the straw colour of 103. To avoid light patches on the stage, we grouped the lights together so the beam would blend.



Below is an image of me Cutting a recquired gel to fit the gel frame of the lights.