Originally I was going to kind of laundry-list all the times Q-lab had f@#ked over a show that I was on.
But in skimming through the journals... I have over 675 separate incidents logged during around 3,270 performances using the '-lab. (!)
So that seemed like a tedious prospect. Instead I will hijack the thread and talk about a truly lost art: Daily logging.
What? You haven't logged every performance in your career since 1986? I have, and it is pretty interesting sometimes.
To make counting easier, over the years I would do tick marks in the back of each journal to
track incidents/recurring events so I didn't have to flip pages.
Like: Q-lab screwed the show, I screwed the show (about one tenth the number of times as Q-lab over my career: 62), Actor missed performance NC/NS (No
Call/No Show), Lighting
console screwed the show, Musician missed performance NC/NS, Sound
console screwed the show, Above the
line NC/NS (
producer,director,SM,TD,
Conductor),
Power failure screwed the show, Weather screwed the show, Rigging failure, Scenery failure, Audience riot screwed the show (4 times), Total PA
system failure, Rig
spot op fell during show (3 times), Sleeping crew screwed/delayed/made interesting the show, Camera failure (4 times), Crew failure, White foam coffee cup left in scene on the best take (16 times!), Crew in scene on best take (3 times), No film in camera on any take (6 times!), Unexpected explosion screwed the show,
Pyro landed hot in audience space (8 times!), Feet of film exposed (49,762,304'), Minutes of videotape captured (10,923,234min), On set determination that we'd "Fix it in Post, or FIP" (584 times), Actor/Crew perished during performance (7 times), and my favorite: Naked person randomly appeared during performance. Only four times during my brief experience in the performing arts...
When I die, I suspect that whomever goes through my crap will toss those books into the fire along with Rosebud.
But you should consider doing this. It is cathartic after a tough day to list your enemies and how you would like them to meet their fate and praise the successes which is what actually gets put down the most in the journal...
Thread hijacking (NOT QUITE) complete. Thank you.
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@Ancient Engineer When you annotated:
"Naked person randomly appeared during performance. Only four times during my brief experience in the performing arts... "
Did you not note SEX: Female, Male, Spayed, Neutered, Assimilated or Other? If not, why not??
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard