q2qcomics: dangermcd:soundfail: Ugh, interns… amirite? Sorry, I know I’ve posted this
q2qcomics: dangermcd: soundfail: Ugh, interns… amirite? Sorry, I know I’ve posted this before, but here’s my daughter helping me with a focus note when she was 7. She’s helping with me lighting her dance recital, something I kind of fell into over the years as I had been working in this theatre for a decade and then she was enrolled in their kids program. They’ve been hiring a professional team to give each of the 40+ pieces fully realized designs for ages. This past summer, as she was 8, she ran down immediately after her tech run and asked to help out on the console in the house as other kids started another number. She picked up a headset, learned the headset etiquette and jargon pretty quickly, and easily followed the syntax on the ETC Element as I fed it to her. I keep a lot of the systems/purposes on faders so I can grab them in a hurry to cue over a run of a piece, so I let her design a couple pieces by pointing to faders that I thought would be appropriate, but let her choose how bright/dark to make it. She was a champ. The next day, a Sunday, the stage manager and I were going through more tech runs with the groups, but my daughter was at home. I was on the phone with my wife and asked what they were up to. She said they were going to the park. I mentioned that only if she was interested, my daughter could come and help me on the console again that day, but since they were going to the park and it was a beautiful day, I said I really didn’t expect to see them. Less than 10 minutes later, my daughter marched her way into the house, sat down at the lighting board as I slid over and stood beside it, put on the headset, and looked at me expectantly. “We want to be in LX 68,” I said. Before I could tell her the syntax to do so, she was already punching it in and I was staring at LX 68. I’m trying really hard to not push her or even nudge her into theatre. If you’re going to be in this business, where most live at or below the poverty line, but my friends keep staring at me like I’m an idiot and tell me, “It’s in her blood.” -- source link