Inner Space 2019

Inner Space Race
Logo by Darren Wilson Summary Performance Date Thursday 28th of January 2016 Performance Time 1:30pm - 7:45pm Venue New Athenaeum Course BA Production Technology and Management Production Team Production Manager Ewan Sullivan Deputy Production Manager Hannah Henderson Designer Louise Chan Stage Supervisor Darren Wilson Assistant Stage Supervisor Erin Johnstone Head of Flys Noah Dates Stage Manager Lea Meloee Deputy Stage Manager Nina Madriz Assistant Stage Manager Zeni Bollok Assistant Stage Manager Julia Daniczek Assistant Stage Manager Rhiannon Mitchell Sound Designer Corey Jackson Production Sound Engineer Conor Brown Sound nr.2 Stuart Henderson Lighting Designer Mark Sillett Production Electrician Louisa Craig LX Programmer Nicholas Ruebenacker LX Team Ross Hunter Head of AV Ryan Worrell Head of Marketing Hayley Grogan Photography Ruby Noble

Production Management

The Production Management team consisted of Production Manager, Ewan Sullivan, and Deputy Production Manager, Hannah Henderson.

Production Management was in charge of inter-departmental health and communication, establishing and leading meetings, creating team positions, enforcing correct codes of practice and deadlines, scheduling, budgetary decision making, and staff communication.

Schedule

Technical Stage Management

The Technical Stage Management Team consisted of Stage Supervisor Darren Wilson, Deputy Stage Supervisor Erin Johnstone and Head of Flys Noah Dates.

The technical stage management team were responsible for creating the structure of the maze layout. To do this the team looked into different ways of rigging the hard masking flats on their vertical side to create the walls of the maze. In the end we came up with a method that used Kee Clamp base plates and vertical pieces of scaff pipe to hold the hard maskers upright. Barrel clamps were used to attach the maskers to the scaff pipe.

In preparation for the week the TSM team were required to create various documents.

- 1:25 scale ground plan of the maze
- Equipment list
- Risk assessments (fit up and strike periods and also for the maze structure)
- TSM schedule
- Fly plot

Stage Management

The Stage Management team consisted of Stage Manager Lea Meloee, Deputy Stage Manager Nina Madriz and Assistant Stage Managers on Book Zeni Bollok, Julia Daniczek and Rhiannon Mitchell.

The main responsibility of the stage management team was to enforce a smooth execution and running of the performance. For this particular production that meant paying extra attention to audience interaction and the calling of the performance.

This production was an interactive experience, requiring the audience to take an active part in the performance. Due to the nature of the performance the stage management team organized and monitored the audience interaction carefully. Measures were taken to ensure the audiences safety, see risk assessments. Each player was allocated a host to guide them before the game, in between games, and after the game. They would answer any questions and provide further explanation if required.

The cues for the game itself were visual and given by the audience as they picked up stars and planets or were caught by ghosts. There were two players in the maze at once and no two players would navigate the maze the same way. The nature of the game, namely the unpredictability of the players, called for two people to be calling the game, one for each player. The DSM or the ASM on book and the spotter (the second person calling the game) were situated on either flyfloor allowing them a full view of the maze. The prompt book was created by DSM Nina Madriz.

During the performance stage manager Lea Meloee coordinated crew-members involved in the running of the performance. Crew-members were situated in R1, oustide R1, on both flyfloors and in the wings of stage right and stage left. This was done to further enforce and ensure a smooth execution and running of the performace.

Risk Assessments: File:SM RA InnerSpaceRace.xlsx
Extended SM-team rotations: File:Extended SM-team InnerSpaceRace.xlsx
Performance schedule: File:Performance schedule InnerSpaceRace.pdf
Prompt book:

Lighting

The lighting team's responsibility was to ensure there was a good amount of lighting to illuminate the stage as well as provide an artistic flare to the proceedings of Inner Space 2019. The lighting design team consisted of Mark Sillett (Lead Lighting Designer), Ryan Worrell(Lighting and Video Design) and Nicholas Rúbenacker (Lighting Designer and Programmer). We took the collaborative lighting design approach because we felt the ethos of the project was working together to create something amazing. Our PLX (Production Electrician) was Louisa Craig and our LX Crew was Ross Hunter. We could not have ran this department without them they were absolutely valuable to the team. Their duties included ensuring all fixtures were booked, addressed and ready to be operated as well as working as an effective team within the LX department to ensure that any issues with electrics and lighting were dealt with quickly and efficiently. They completed this to a very high standard. Attached are all of the LX paperwork from this project.