Tech observation

My tech observation was pretty interesting. I got to see Stacy and Alicia the board op work in tandem to get cues down and re adjust them. It was interesting to see her train of thought as she tried certain lights and colors out and then decided against them due to costume changes or murkiness. There were over 200 lights for her to play with and adjust for whatever type of look she was trying to go with. The opera dealt with a lot of cool colors since the warm colors didn't seem to go with the overall concept of the play. It was interesting to see on there board how they controlled fog/haze and phasers. Alicia did a good job of listening to Stacy and Wendy the stage manager at the same time. I probably would have got confused with both of them speaking on top of each other. I was fortunate to be there for there diner break so I got to see them do tech notes. I got to see them readjust the conductor light and some others. They also spoke about the side lights and how they need to go from 26 to 36". The skims the opera uses are pretty cool as well they used those in a variety of ways. Some times they were used like gobos portraying a design over the front of the stage. Other times they portrayed pictures of dogs which was interesting though I didn't get why they were there persay. Overall it was an interesting hour and a half learned a lesson in patience cause it took a lot of time to put in each special and adjust light levels for cues.