Backstage Essentials

Skills for Stagehand Technicians in Live Event Production
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-04518-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm

Backstage Essentials: Skills for Stagehand Technicians in Live Event Production is a practical guide for stagehand technicians working in live event production.

This book is written for the person doing the work: unloading a truck at the loading dock, running cable under a ballroom riser, hanging a lighting fixture on truss, or troubleshooting a projector minutes before a general session begins. Chapters cover safety and personal protective equipment, road cases, load-in and truck packing, rigging, chain motors and truss, power distribution and connector identification, audio, lighting, and video systems, general session and breakout room setup, and working in a called show. Every chapter includes hands-on practice exercises and skill sheets a technician can take to a job site, along with Live Experience boxes in which working technicians describe shows they worked and the decisions they made under pressure.

Backstage Essentials is intended for entry level technicians, for community colleges and technical school programs, and for anyone stepping onto a show floor for the first time.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larsen, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Professionalism; 2. Safety Foundations; 3. The Stagehand Technician Toolkit; 4. Warehouse and Truck Operations; 5. Rigging and Structural Support; 6. Portable Power Distribution; 7. Audio Systems; 8. Lighting Systems; 9. Video and Projection Systems; 10. General Session; 11. Breakout Room; 12. Show Calling

Über Autor(innen)

William Larsen is District AV Technology Coordinator for Independent School District 197 in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, and adjunct faculty at Laurus College, where he teaches audio and video production for live events. He holds CTS, CIT, and CETL certifications, writes CTS exam items for AVIXA as a subject matter expert. He has worked in live event audio and lighting for thirty years and continues to design lighting for theatre in the Twin Cities.