Have a Nice Day!

My son is interested in pursuing technical theater and video production.

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to how we can go about participating in this.

Thanks,
kristen

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marji

At 21:55 4/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
>My son is interested in pursuing technical theater and video production.
>
>I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to how we can go about
>participating in this.
>
>Thanks,
>kristen

Hi! Three things jump into my mind. The first would be (not knowing how
old he is) affiliating himself (volunteer, part-time job, or some other
kind of apprentice relationship) with your local cable company. They
almost always have a production component (producing ads for clients and
also a public access station). The other thing is poring through the
phone book and trying to establish some similar kind of relationship with a
local video production guy. There are loads of these kinds of guys these
days who have an office/studio in their basement or garage and shoot videos
for weddings, etc., and other kinds of video projects. Finally, my husband
works in the TV studio of a community college. Again, I imagine that his
age would make a difference here, but he has seen a number of serious
students emerge from the college and go on to careers in the video/film
industry.

I hope this is helpful.

Marji

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Have a Nice Day!

THanks,

that helps a lot!

Kristen
----- Original Message -----
From: "litlrooh" <litlrooh@...>
To: <litlrooh@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:55 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Ideas for technical theater


> --- In [email protected], marji <marji@g...> wrote:
> At 21:55 4/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >My son is interested in pursuing technical theater and video
> production.
> >
> >I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to how we can go
> about
> >participating in this.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >kristen
>
> Hi! Three things jump into my mind. The first would be (not knowing
> how
> old he is) affiliating himself (volunteer, part-time job, or some
> other
> kind of apprentice relationship) with your local cable company. They
> almost always have a production component (producing ads for clients
> and
> also a public access station). The other thing is poring through
> the
> phone book and trying to establish some similar kind of relationship
> with a
> local video production guy. There are loads of these kinds of guys
> these
> days who have an office/studio in their basement or garage and shoot
> videos
> for weddings, etc., and other kinds of video projects. Finally, my
> husband
> works in the TV studio of a community college. Again, I imagine that
> his
> age would make a difference here, but he has seen a number of serious
> students emerge from the college and go on to careers in the
> video/film
> industry.
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Marji
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> --- End forwarded message ---
>
>
>

Robyn Coburn

In addition to endorsing Marji's ideas which focus on the video
production aspect, I have a couple of suggestions. BTW, for the last 20
years I have been everything in technical theater from stage manager to
Set, Lighting and Costume Designer, at every level of professional,
amateur and community theater.



I would suggest getting involved in your local college or community
theater initially. Usually they have way more people interested in
acting than in technical production, and someone wanting to work in
production will be just about overwhelmed with gratitude. The person to
see is the Technical Director, who will know which departments need the
greatest assistance. In this type of theater there are usually a number
of people on staff, heading departments, with visiting directors and
often visiting designers. If your local theater is well established
sometimes the designers can be highly placed, or members of the faculty
of design/theater schools.



If you register at www.playbill.com <http://www.playbill.com/> you
will find they have job listings seeking workers, including interns and
summer stock positions, in theater all over the country. I love this
site. Also they sometimes advertise for teachers at college level, which
can be a good starting point for investigating colleges.



A good magazine to get is "Entertainment Design"
www.entertainmentdesignmag.com <http://www.entertainmentdesignmag.com/>
. This magazine focuses on technical theater and design, and sometimes
has job listings, as well as lots of info about the newest gear.



General skills you can bring to the stage: carpentry, painting,
organization, sewing, architectural drafting especially CAD, research
skills, model building.

The special skills in technical theater are easily learnable - ie the
jargon, the equipment, design skills, stage management. Beware that not
everyone in every community theater does things the way they do in fully
professional situations ;)

My suggestion is to try and audit some university classes in technical
theater - this will save you some time instead of learning everything
over time on the job.



It can be immensely time consuming to work in theater, but also
immensely rewarding and fun.



Good luck,

Robyn Coburn



PS Don't mention the Scottish Play inside a theater - some people are
very superstitious, especially actors. They can get almost hysterical.





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Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Ideas for technical theater



My son is interested in pursuing technical theater and video production.

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to how we can go about
participating in this.

Thanks,
kristen

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and "tomorrow" might never come.

Today is where hope lives because today is when we can make things
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[email protected]

also try your local community theatre. They always need tech people, and
ours tapes all their productions. He would get a ton of experience. My
12 yo dd is involved in our community theatre, as an actor, and she has
learned a great deal.

hth,
susan
in md

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 10:32 PM, marji wrote:

> At 21:55 4/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >My son is interested in pursuing technical theater and video
> production.
> >
> >I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to how we can go
> about
> >participating in this.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >kristen
>
> Hi!  Three things jump into my mind.  The first would be (not knowing
> how
> old he is) affiliating himself (volunteer, part-time job, or some other
> kind of apprentice relationship) with your local cable company.  They
> almost always have a production component (producing ads for clients and
> also a public access  station).  The other thing is poring through the
> phone book and trying to establish some similar kind of relationship
> with a
> local video production guy.  There are loads of these kinds of guys
> these
> days who have an office/studio in their basement or garage and shoot
> videos
> for weddings, etc., and other kinds of video projects.  Finally, my
> husband
> works in the TV studio of a community college.  Again, I imagine that
> his
> age would make a difference here, but he has seen a number of serious
> students emerge from the college and go on to careers in the video/film
> industry.
>
> I hope this is helpful.
>
> Marji
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

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litlrooh

THank you all very much! I had thought about community theater, etc.
but your information was all very helpful!!

Kristen

--- In [email protected], "Robyn Coburn"
<dezigna@a...> wrote:
> In addition to endorsing Marji's ideas which focus on the video
> production aspect, I have a couple of suggestions. BTW, for the
last 20
> years I have been everything in technical theater from stage
manager to
> Set, Lighting and Costume Designer, at every level of professional,
> amateur and community theater.
>
>
>
> I would suggest getting involved in your local college or community
> theater initially. Usually they have way more people interested in
> acting than in technical production, and someone wanting to work in
> production will be just about overwhelmed with gratitude. The
person to
> see is the Technical Director, who will know which departments need
the
> greatest assistance. In this type of theater there are usually a
number
> of people on staff, heading departments, with visiting directors and
> often visiting designers. If your local theater is well established
> sometimes the designers can be highly placed, or members of the
faculty
> of design/theater schools.
>
>
>
> If you register at www.playbill.com <http://www.playbill.com/>
you
> will find they have job listings seeking workers, including interns
and
> summer stock positions, in theater all over the country. I love this
> site. Also they sometimes advertise for teachers at college level,
which
> can be a good starting point for investigating colleges.
>
>
>
> A good magazine to get is "Entertainment Design"
> www.entertainmentdesignmag.com
<http://www.entertainmentdesignmag.com/>
> . This magazine focuses on technical theater and design, and
sometimes
> has job listings, as well as lots of info about the newest gear.
>
>
>
> General skills you can bring to the stage: carpentry, painting,
> organization, sewing, architectural drafting especially CAD,
research
> skills, model building.
>
> The special skills in technical theater are easily learnable - ie
the
> jargon, the equipment, design skills, stage management. Beware that
not
> everyone in every community theater does things the way they do in
fully
> professional situations ;)
>
> My suggestion is to try and audit some university classes in
technical
> theater - this will save you some time instead of learning
everything
> over time on the job.
>
>
>
> It can be immensely time consuming to work in theater, but also
> immensely rewarding and fun.
>
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Robyn Coburn
>
>
>
> PS Don't mention the Scottish Play inside a theater - some people
are
> very superstitious, especially actors. They can get almost
hysterical.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Have a Nice Day! [mailto:litlrooh@c...]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 6:55 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Ideas for technical theater
>
>
>
> My son is interested in pursuing technical theater and video
production.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to how we can go
about
> participating in this.
>
> Thanks,
> kristen
>
> ****************************************************************
>
> Today is even more important than tomorrow because "today" is a
gift,
> and "tomorrow" might never come.
>
> Today is where hope lives because today is when we can make things
> better than yesterday.
>
> The only thing we can be sure of is today and life isn't worth
living if
> it isn't lived in joy for as many moments of today as we can manage.
>
>
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