I
recently completed the lighting for this year’s Music Makers evening concert. While
the work was an extension of the new skills I have developed this year in my
work as stage tech and in preparing to peruse a career as a theater engineer,
it was also an engagement with new challenges in role. It involved me
improving my new skills as a lighting director as the scale was far greater
than during the middle school production (I went from working with 15 preset
sliders to 30) and making more executive decisions as to lighting. When I
worked with Ms. Jackson on the middle school production she had a very clear
idea of what was possible and what she wanted for each scene, whereas Ms.
Duncan had only a general idea of what she wanted for each act and let me
figure out the specifics.
In
the next week I will light the culminating speeches of the TED talks after school activity and will light several productions next year including the musical
which I will show perseverance and commitment to my choice of activities.
