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Duties

"Haha, you said duties." ~ Amelia Smith '17

Pre Put-In

Before Tech Week, you should make a cable plot. If the Lighting Designer really wants to do that themself, then you should at least be familiar enough with it to efficiently run light hang.

Things that you should try to do with the cable plot:

  • If at all possible to cable an instrument to a dimmer without using a stagepin extension, please do so.
  • You can daisy-chain scoops with two-fers so that they only use one dimmer.
  • If you are using Colorados try to chain them together with Powercon and DMX. If they are not close enough to each other to chain, you might be able to convince your LD to move them. You can also daisy-chain the DMX and Powercon into the Vari-Lites, but only DMX can come out. You must use an Edison extension cord from the Vari-Lite to the ground. COLORados will take 3-pin or 5-pin DMX, but Vari-Lites and pretty much everything else will only take 5-pin, so you can use 3-pin between COLORados if you are running low on 5-pin.
  • You are going to have to run a chain of DMX from the light board to the dimmer closet. This chain can (and probably should) run through all of the lighting instruments that use DMX.
  • There might be more things. Find a former ME or an LD if you have questions about things.

The Vari-Lites are named Bob and Susan. Their boxes are labeled.

Also, print out many copies of the cable plot (I like 1.5x total number of people that will be on lights team during the team) before Put-In.  A large printout to put at the edge of the screen is also useful.

Also, don't die and stuff. (smile)

Put-In

Yes, that's right. You get to run light hang during Put-In. This basically means that you are in charge of the entire light plot - cables and all - being up on the pipes by the end of the day. As you are going through and hanging, keep track of what you hang and any changes you are making in a central location. This makes your LD much happier when they are patching.

You can't fully focus instruments until the stage is up (or at least taped out), but you can rough focus instruments in the general direction that the light plot indicates when you hang them. Also, OPEN THE SHUTTERS. This is so that you can actually see if the instrument is working during instrument check.

It would be cool if you could test all of the cables before you hang them, but that's not always possible given time constraints. If you don't, though, you will definitely have to fix some things during the day on Monday.

Don't wrap cables around the pipes. It may seem like a good idea so you can avoid using another tie line, but it will make the people who are taking the instruments/cables down very sad. Please don't.

Strike

You are also in charge of making sure that everything comes down during strike. (Unless it's Fall and your LD is also LDing for MTG and has made the same plot for both shows. Then you don't have to take anything down. (big grin))

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