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Post by Jolyma on Jul 4, 2013 20:40:19 GMT -8
Between Shades of Grey, yes! It was, at times, horribly depressing, but the will to live in that young girl, and her mother, was so incredible. The author did an amazing job in portraying the way it was, the suffering, the hope, the cruelty, the kindnesses in unexpected places...
Joly's adventures in mic-ing:
I go into a room with a young man half my age explaining the process of checking for the Loc-On (so the mic can't accidentally be turned off), checking the battery power, taping the mics to the actors' faces and necks...then, he hands me a little package and says to me with 4 kids standing there, "Here, put this condom on it."
I about died.
They apparently use them to cover the mic packs before putting them in the belt pouch to protect them from moisture from the actors sweating. But, not a phrase I was prepared to hear from a 19 year old boy in front of pre-teens.
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Post by firebolt153 on Jul 5, 2013 3:14:06 GMT -8
I was just glad for the epilogue and the sort of happy ending. Call me boring, but I do enjoy a somewhat happy ending.
Ah yes, fun with audio! I'd forgotten that trick, as I don't do live sound very often and I've never done a show where the actors were miced and I was running the audio.
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Post by Aethera on Jul 5, 2013 5:37:30 GMT -8
Yep, always condoms on the mics I'm just about to dip my toe back into theatre after 10 years off. A little backstage work as a favor to a friend. I'm undecided as to whether this is a good thing, since she's basically devoted her non-working hours to it and I don't want to get that sucked in. I would love to run lights on an old-school board again. That's what I miss. Or a wall of levers, though I was always too short. And now I have Maaaaaaaaaarian in my head.
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Post by Jolyma on Jul 5, 2013 12:31:09 GMT -8
I'm not running the audio board, thank heavens. The double row of 12 fade switches is enough for me.
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Post by firebolt153 on Jul 5, 2013 12:47:37 GMT -8
Aw, the audio board's easy! Hell, the last show I ran sound for, the extent of it was clicking the "play" button at the appropriate cues on the computer. But it was a nice analog board, which made me happy.
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Post by Aethera on Jul 5, 2013 12:55:50 GMT -8
When I was in high school I did a lot of tech for the 100 seat theatre in my town. The first show, the audio was on a reel-to-reel. Then they excitedly upgraded to a tape deck. How many times I nearly broadcast my attempts to get to the right part of the tape for the next cue!
And this was 1997. Not 1987.
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Post by Jolyma on Jul 5, 2013 20:26:29 GMT -8
Well, some sound cues are just hitting next or something, but our audio also runs the mic volumes, and has to adjust in the songs with the whole cast and things like that. 16 mics to keep track of? No thanks!
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Post by firebolt153 on Jul 5, 2013 22:08:44 GMT -8
I'm convinced that if I had "come of age" so to speak during the analog heydey of audio I wouldn't have made it. I had to train on a tape machine in college and I hated every minute of it. Plus the talent got cranky cause they were used to instantaneous playbacks and returns to start points in ProTools like the rest of us.
I hope the board op has the mics on a stem so they can adjust them for songs at the same time instead of like, 6 at a time. That IS a horror.
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Post by Jolyma on Jul 6, 2013 7:58:05 GMT -8
I don't know how they have the audio set up, I didn't need even more information being crammed in my head all at once.
The only hiccups I ended up with weren't my fault. The fellow who runs the theater didn't patch the sound mics or the intelligents over to the lighting booth before rehearsal, and well, I didn't know to check that. Was interesting for Iowa Stubborn when the curtain came up, and the lights weren't on.
Then, the stage manager replied to someone I couldn't hear on mics 'we'll put the lights up then' and so I started to, only to get, 'I wasn't talking to you!'
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Post by firebolt153 on Jul 6, 2013 10:18:29 GMT -8
Ah tech week
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Post by Leif on Jul 12, 2013 12:29:13 GMT -8
On the Mieville front, I just started reading Kraken. I'm real curious about this one and hoping it's gonna be good.
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Post by Taelac on Jul 12, 2013 18:22:35 GMT -8
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Post by Leif on Jul 12, 2013 20:24:46 GMT -8
That's outstanding.
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Post by firebolt153 on Jul 12, 2013 21:23:42 GMT -8
*falls off bed laughing*
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Post by Setsusa on Jul 14, 2013 4:41:57 GMT -8
Is this an over 30s joke because I didn't think anything was funny, the song was alright though.
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Post by Leif on Jul 14, 2013 9:19:26 GMT -8
It's a song about drug use presented as a modern spiritual on the show of a man who is the type of guy to give air time to modern spirituals.
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Post by firebolt153 on Jul 14, 2013 9:31:10 GMT -8
Is this an over 30s joke because I didn't think anything was funny, the song was alright though. I'm not over 30 and I got the joke :-p
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Post by Furare on Jul 14, 2013 9:43:59 GMT -8
Given part of the joke is apparently whose show it is on, I think the issue is more that you're not US-American than that you're under 30, Sets.
I found it about as funny as the time Leif sent me a country cover of a rap song. That is, amusing, but not hysterical. The bit where the host refers to it as a "modern spiritual" is funnier than the song itself, for my money.
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Post by Taelac on Jul 14, 2013 10:41:12 GMT -8
Yes, it wasn't the song that was funny, it was how positively earnest and oblivious the host and the singers were. Shortly after that episode aired, Spiro Agnew leaned on the FCC to get the song banned from the airwaves.
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Post by Furare on Jul 14, 2013 11:29:33 GMT -8
Did the singers not know what the song was about? I assumed it was their song. (Or do you mean they were acting oblivious?)
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Post by Taelac on Jul 14, 2013 13:06:40 GMT -8
No, those were some of the regular Lawrence Welk Show singers. They had no idea what they were singing.
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Post by Furare on Jul 14, 2013 13:07:24 GMT -8
Hah, see, I think this is where familiarity with the show helps.
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Post by Leif on Jul 15, 2013 3:53:57 GMT -8
I found it about as funny as the time Leif sent me a country cover of a rap song. That is, amusing, but not hysterical. Pft. It's funnier than that. The Gourds- Gin and Juice
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Post by Furare on Jul 15, 2013 5:35:13 GMT -8
Hey, if you take away the context of what kind of show that is, who the host is, and the fact that the singers don't know what the hell they're singing - all you've got is a song whose tone and content are completely mismatched. Which is exactly the same as what you have in the Gin & Juice example.
I mean, honestly, I didn't know if that was even a real show or just a show in a sketch or something. Obviously if you're familiar with it and you know that the host is a real guy taking this song completely seriously - yeah, that's funnier. (Seriously, that show seems far too 1950s wholesome to be real.)
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Post by Aethera on Jul 15, 2013 6:33:19 GMT -8
I do love that cover of Gin & Juice.
And I got the joke, but I know who Lawrence Welk is and what the song is. Because I'm a nerd.
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Post by Taelac on Jul 15, 2013 6:50:23 GMT -8
Well, the show did get started in the fifties, and that clip is from an episode in the early seventies, by which time, Welk was desperately trying to keep his narrow view of the fifties as some kind of moral "golden age" alive.
For context, he once fired a singer because she crossed her legs in a way he found "immoral."
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Post by Misty on Jul 15, 2013 8:15:40 GMT -8
When I was working in a college theater, I once asked one of the students to go to the store and get a big box of prophylactics for the microphones. She didn't know what that was and when I explained I wanted non-lubricated condoms, she turned bright red and said there was no way she could go to the store and buy that.
There are other options, but those on the belt packs are one of the cheapest and most reliable.
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Post by Taelac on Jul 15, 2013 8:58:24 GMT -8
Ah, the poor lamb.
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Post by Aethera on Jul 15, 2013 10:21:54 GMT -8
At the theater I just started at, it's a rite of passage to go buy them They make you get absolutely the cheapest and worst ones...I wonder what the clerks at the Rite Aid think.
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Post by Misty on Jul 15, 2013 12:40:27 GMT -8
Heat that, Former Student? I'm not so bad. Everyone does it!
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