After completing my final show of the year I am going to review the video footage of the performance, look back across the entire year and assess my progress and outline what skills I would like to develop further in the coming year.
Rocky Horror was a great show for me to showcase all of the techniques and skill I have learned throughout the year. I was able to utilize the many lighting effects I have learnt and use them in effective ways to reflect the atmosphere of the production. It also allowed me to further my set design and creation skills. Before this production I had very little knowledge of building sets, despite having previous carpentry and textile experience. I feel like I am a lot more confident in my decision making as I was encouraged by the director, performers and my classmates who all pushed me to follow my instinct and use my initiative.
Rocky Horror Performance
The feedback received from the performers was better than I first expected. They all agreed that the decisions that I had to make, sometimes 'on the spot', was the best decision that could have been made. The director also gave good feedback, with a few minor issues including the scrapped door and broken haze machine.
Over the course of the year I have made major improvements in nearly every area. Because I joined with very little experience I was curious to see how much I would learn and surprised myself with how natural everything felt to me. I have drastically improved my lighting designer/operated skills. I had never tried to do any form of lighting in the past and can now confidently create different effects and use moving lights with very little issue.
I haven't had much experience with live sound over the course of the year but feel like I can work out sound desk to an acceptable degree, considering the amount of shows I have done sound for. Onea that I still feel that I could achieve more in is stage management. I can easily mark up a script and call cues but also understand that there is so much more to the role than just those two things.
In the coming year I would like to further my skills as a lighting designer to hopefully either attend university or find a suitable apprenticeship or employment. I want to learn different types of lighting and how it is constantly evolving with the introduction of new technologies and potentially new legislation being introduced by the EU. I also want to gain more hands on experience with live sound, including the use of microphones and the recording studios.
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