sound operator

this role is on par with lighting operator under the DSM who cues both operators the importance of this role is quite high as without the sound operator the preformers would be singing acappella with no music and there would be no sound effects which would subtract greatly from the overall enjoyment and professionalism of the preformance, the sound operator doesnt liase too closely with the crew backstage, mostly with the preformers themselves or the director to ind out cue lines.

evaluation

The show as a whole worked well and was successful, to evaluate this the front of house team sent out questionares to see a public response to the performance as a whole.
the questionares  told us some areas upon which we could improve the experience of the show such as:
-the heat of the auditorium was too intense so audience members gave feedback that an improvment if the budget of the allow would be to get air conditioning which keep the auditorium cool for the audience and the preformers as it would make the atmosphere mor bareable and the audience would be able to focus more on the preformance than the heat.
-another was about the food on offer...this i belive was due to the layout of the tables which gave it a restaraunt feel which made the auidence have an air of expectation, we only served nibbles but the auidence didnt feel this was appropriate to the setting.
- the microphones were also complained about..this is a situation we thought would come up as the quality of the mics are something we as a department would like to improve after the previous preformance.Another reason for this would be the jacks being overloaded, this and the performers in a rush to get on fitting thier own mics and doing them incorrectly...a solution to this would be to either have more crew members to fit mics or tutor the preformers how to do their own correctly.


Things that worked well were:
- the american theme worked well as the theme was continuous from the waitresses western outfits and their fake american accents to the red white and blue theme which ran from the tables to even the lighting design.
-the lighting design worked well...as it went in with the american theme and isolated areas of preformance, and set the mood and atmosphere for the play.
-the way we worked as a team overall to achieve the quality of preformance with the lighting and sound working in tune with one another through the commands of the DSM. 

sound operation

firstly i lifted sounds from freesound.com of trucks and trains which are appropriate to what the stage manager told me was required then downloading these sounds after saving these to the user area i had
 the stage manager and the director.these were then transferred to a hardrive disk,which was then plugged into the mac and the tracks transferred to itunes.From this we opened up a new qlab document and dropped in the sounds in the order they would appear in the show ,we got a temporary lincense for so that we could insert vamps and devamps for between speech which is not free on qlab,however when the liesence turned up  there was an issue...the issue being that the lincence was valid only for the new edition of qlab...so to solve this issue we downloaded the new version of qlab and transferred the file from  the old version of qlab to the new one.

from this we added in vamps and revamps to stop or start a track looping during the speech of the actors then carry on with the acting without music cutting out or finishing early.

this was then made easier to differentiate between different forms of actions to be preformed during the show such as:
- green for ; the start of a new act/song
-red for ; stop cue
-blue for; a fade
-purple for; a devamp
-yellow/orange for; a load cue

then during the technical  rehersals I added in the cue lines as taken from the acors for actions such as; vamps, devamps, stops, fades, load cues.

 

some of the tracks we found took to long for the time we needed it to run, or started too long after actors speech so i trimmed the start or end off the track so that the track started when it was needed
to.