technical theatre

Today we had the second lesson of technical theatre.

Rigging consist on putting the light up on the pole
De-rigging consist on taking the lights down off the pole

The fist step to do this is to check that the safety wire* is on,so that if it falls down the light won't break or hit anyone as it keeps it attached to the pole. The next step is to disconnect the electric cable and cut any seller tape around it if you are going to take all the lights off, if not unplugging it's enough. After un-tighten it the safety wire can be removed so that you can take the light down.

All this process needs to be carried out following EU health and safety standards, protective clothing must me be worn , in this case we only used heavy duty gloves.This lights can reach high temperatures only after a significant short amount of time.the lights were off so they were not hot, but we worn them to get used to them. When you put the light on back on the pole all sorts of cables have to be tied up to the pole using tape or wrapping them around the pole so that no one can get injured by tripping down.

Today we did both processes Rigging and De-rigging at the college's theatre, a very interesting job, although the lights look heavy and the whole process looks difficult is simpler when you get you hands "dirty".

On top of this we also set up the levels of the lights.These are some of the levels we used today:

+ Mids
+ Shins
+ Head

 We used the small fesnel for the Head and Mids and the bigger ones for the Mids and Shins