Day Three

On Saturday  (16th of March) 
I attended another installment of the lighting course, at Jagriti Theater.

We worked on programming the lighting board. The theater uses a JesterTRX Board to control all their lights. Its a fascinating device, allowing for both the manual control of lights as well as programming them. The course began with a basic run through using a projected picture of the board and  a basic tutorial on its different functions. Then we went up to the control booth and got a hands on tour and programming crash course on the board. Then finally we each had a chance to program a short series of lights. 

I have to admit this was one of the less interesting sessions for me, mainly because it was much more technical that theatrical  Never the less i stayed focused and payed attention. The best feature of the JesteTRX board has to be the way you can program different scenes and move them along based on cue's. this removes the possibility of an actor taking longer in a scene than in rehearsal and causing a massive timing mess up (example: in rehearsal a monologue takes 2 minutes on stage, it takes 3 minutes, causing the lights to change a minute before it finishes). As we did the programming though i realized that the theatrical side of ligthing comes much easier to me than the technical. To overocme this i will have to practice with the board, which i plan on doing next session. I am really excited about learning the technical side of theater and will persevere.

Hopefully my experience with setting lighting ques and understanding how programming boards think will lead to a smooth production of Dream On

Here are All the photos I have taken so far, of the lighting course:

 A Guest speaker giving a lecture.

 The class, watching said lecture.

 A grainy photo of the JesteTRX

 The workshop leader, Gautam

 Gautam explaining the different Lights used.

 A Macbeth soliloquy with lighting

 Group brainstorming, to create our own Masbeth scene

 Me performing our soliloquey

 The actor for a play being played at Jagriti theater, doing a small scene

The power of a Parkend being demonstrated.