Backstage life. (ain't glamorous)
Added 2018-08-24 01:57:51 +0000 UTCHere's a glance of a typical show from our backstage workshop/crew-room/office. If we've done our job well we have very little to do during a show unless there is stuff needing fixed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_magldaGqU
If we've NOT done our job well or general technical issues occur then we won't be in this room. We'll be running around backstage (literally!) while trying to pinpoint faults while communicating with each other and the control room on our radios. It's not fun on stormy days when horizontal rain starts affecting equipment.
Fortunately we're all veterans of the industry, so we do make the job very weather resilient and get to drink tea and play with technical stuff as a result while the show runs smoothly in the background.
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It was a gift from a chap called Phil who attended the Edinburgh meet-up, and is a small copy of a device called a Manfrotto Magic Arm. It's actually been very useful for recording spontaneous video.
Big Clive
2018-08-29 09:00:06 +0000 UTCIt's a five pin XLR connector.
Big Clive
2018-08-29 08:58:07 +0000 UTCI must ask, where did you get that fantastic phone stand? :D
2018-08-28 23:49:01 +0000 UTCClive, is that Tuchel connector - it looks like a 180deg DIN but the body looks threaded.. I suppose it would have to be..
Gordo
2018-08-26 11:39:46 +0000 UTCIn US Television, those "more than 3-pin" XLRs are used for intercom between the control room and the studio. After several years "re-terminating", I can tell you it wasn't chafed, but butchered!! Thumbs up for tearing apart the other end, too. That'll bite you just as fast. Thanks, Clive.
Chuck Kirchner
2018-08-25 00:44:55 +0000 UTCBig Clive - The RE-TERMINATOR
John Ridley
2018-08-24 14:51:22 +0000 UTCA lot of the public don't seem to be able to grasp that in this sort of business, our break is when the event/show/whatever is actually going on because as you say, if you have done your job right it should "just work" I also have difficulty convincing my office boss-ladies of this as well
GL_1_Code1_1A
2018-08-24 11:05:08 +0000 UTCWhere I work it seems like I'm the guy they come to for terminating or re- terminating cables. Usually it's resolver or encoder cables from industrial motors, but it could be anything from incident to incident. Yeah check the other side if possible... the same hands could have been there, and in this case it looks like they may have been. - a wise and experienced move by our Clive, but that's typical!
Michael Thompson
2018-08-24 10:02:57 +0000 UTCIt's always SO NICE to work with people who know their stuff. Even when shit goes wrong, it gets sorted quickly and everybody goes back to whatever they were previously doing to fill in the time until the audience leaves.
Chris Talbot
2018-08-24 08:57:18 +0000 UTCI assume these lights get packed up and shipped around to other shows. Do the lights have service logs so you know who to yell at?
Lostngone
2018-08-24 02:03:53 +0000 UTC
