Carousel 2013

Carousel 2013
Carousel Creative Director Andrew Panton Musical Director Simon Beck Choreographer Emily-Jane Boyle Set Designer Alex Lowde Lighting Designer Simon Wilkinson Sound Designer Blair Omond Stats Venue New Athenaeum Tech February-March 2013 Performance Dates 21st-23rd March 2013

Carousel marks the second year of the large scale musical theatre performance within the Conservatoire.

Company

Creative Team

Director: Andrew Panton

Musical Director: Simon Beck

Choreographer: Emily-Jane Boyle

Associate Director: Susie Dumbreck

Set Designer: Alex Lowde

Lighting Designer: Simon Wilkinson

Sound Designer: Blair Omond

Projection Designer: Tim Reid

Technical Production Team

Stage Manager: Jack Hirst

Deputy Stage Manager: Amber McClelland

Assistant Stage Management:

Technical Stage Manager: Rebecca Coull

Chief Flyperson:

Stage Technicians:

Chief Electrician: Neil Foulis

Deputy Electrician: Audrey Wilson

Sound Designer/ Sound Number 1: Blair Omond

Sound Number 2: Laura Dougan

Lighting Operator: Audrey Wilson

Electricians:

AV Operator: Robert Butler

Sopt Operators: Keiran Fitzpatrick & Shannon Howard

Technical Stage Management

Revolving Stage (Dundee Rep Revolve)

The revolving stage was borrowed from Dundee Rep, the surrounding stage and ramps were built by RCS workshops.

The first thing to look at with this is powering it. It requires a 16Amp 3-phase supply. The available supply in the venue is 125A 3-phase. In order to reduce this we required jumps, distro and a variable RCD, which we hirded from Tower Productions, Edinburgh.

Distro Hired from Tower Productions

( Note: This is also the order in which it should be connected from the venue supply to the revolve motor control.)

• 125Amp 3-phase to 63Amp 3-phase Jump
• 63A 3-phase in-line variable RCD
• 3metre 63A 3-phase extension
• 63A 3-phase to x2 32A 3-phase & x1 16A 3-phase distribution box
• 20m 16A 3-phase extension

Revolve Operation

Once the revolve is built and powered up it can be operated from the control box. For this show it was situated in the DSL wing by the DSM position, allowing the operator a direct line of sight to the revolve. The operator also had a monitor showing a view from overhead of the revolve to allow them to check the edge was clear and to mark stopping positions on.

Unfortunately with this revolve a cue stack cannot be created and as we also experienced issues with it slipping or losing it's count (position) the revolve had to be stopped and started manually on the control desk, rather than programming a stopping point (which was in theory possible). For this the operator marked her monitor with points to hit stop at so it would decelerate and stop at the correct point.

Programming cues on the revolve

Power up

Chief Electrician or Venue Technician to turn on mains at wall.

Ensure Revolve Clear

• Beige box on floor DSL - turn red switch to on.

Wait for consol (black box on table) to boot up and show main screen.

Check both Emergency stops released

• Pull E-stop on Consol up.
• Twist and release e-stop on side of prompt desk.

Press green button on beige box (it should click).

Set up

Once powered up the revolve will require zeroed as it forgets this information when turned off.

• To set zero press (and hold briefly) the jog (joystick logo) activate button until the logo flips down.
• Press and hold clockwise jog button (CALL REVOLVE MOVING) to turn Revolve until it finds zero. The START button (at top) will activate and the degree count will start counting.

The Revolve is now ready to programme.

Note: Each cue will require programming prior to running (no cue stack).

Operation and Cue programming

To programme start with the Settings screen

The direction, speed, number of revolutions and stop position is set here.

Direction

• Clockwise (CW)
• Counter clockwise (CCW)

Speed (in revolves per minute)

• Fastest speed – 3
• Slowest speed – 0.5

Revolutions

• Number of revolutions from zero

When counting revolutions revolve will start count from the point where it reaches zero, turn the number of requested revolutions then add on the stop position. (e.g. if the revolve was sitting at 5 degrees, was set to 3 revolutions and had a stop position of 180 degrees – it would run the following 355 degrees to zero, revolve 3 complete times and then run from 0 to 180.)

Stop position

• From 0.0 to 359.9

To revolve one complete turn from zero the revolve must be set to zero revolutions and then programmed to stop at 359.9 as it will not recognise a 0 to 0 command.

Setting Acceleration and deceleration

To set this, go into the System screen.

The fastest acceleration and deceleration speed is 10 degrees.

Note: this is very sudden and causes sudden movement, particularly noticeable at higher speed settings. The revolve is also prone to slipping when set to decelerate suddenly from speed.

Also in System page

Teach setting – this is only to be used to completely reset the revolve in case of large discrepancy in the position; it allows the revolve to relearn all it’s positions – this must only be done by TSM or Workshop.

Index/constant – switches revolve between just turning continually and operating to marked points.

Electrics

LX Photos

LX Equipment

Generic Lamps

• SL 15-32 - 21
• SL 19* - 12
• SL 23-50 - 20
• SL 26* - 8
• 1.2K Fresnel - 33
• 1.2K PC - 2
• 2K Fresnel - 11
• 5K Fresnel - 1
• PAR 64 - 30 (10 CP 61, 20 CP 62)
• S4 PAR - 1
• Birdies - 11
• Coda FLood - 28
• Orion Groundrow - 8

Special Lighting Effects

• Vari Lite 1000 tsd - 4
• Reiche and Vogul Beamlights - 2
• Le Maitre MVS Hazer - 1
• Festoon 15M - 1

Festoon

Festoon was used to create a circus atmosphere, Because this was handled by the cast, it was required to be shatterproof. it took 30 x 40 Watt pearl Shatterproof bulbs for one 15M length of festoon.

These Bulbs were bought from a supplier called Covershield.

Lightbulb Halo

The Lightbulb Halo was a main part of the set, as it was the main element representing the Carousel.

My task was to wire up all 80 Lightbulbs in 4 circuits, so it could chase and look as though they were all chasing round the ring.

Firstly I found out the measurement between bulbs, (I used my Vectorworks plan to do this) and then made a template, see below.

I then laid out all the fittings where they go on the ring, and began wiring.

This was wired in Parallel, Each Live, and Neutral went in to the live and neutral points, and then out, and on to the next one. see explanation on Parallel wiring.

Final wiring in 4 circuits

Booms

all of the stage booms required to sit in line with the edge of the fly floor

unfortunately this meant they were sitting on the ramp up to the stage, So to solve this problem, we built small anti rakes to sit under the boom bases.

3 of the booms were to be 7 metres high, this was relatively easy to achieve, the 7M pole was tied to the fly floor, making them very rigid.

Star

the first star, (the understudy) was simple, if a little large. a simple circuit concealed inside a miniature Gin Bottle.

1x warm white LED 2x 1.5V Batteries 1x simple push switch small amount of wire.

The second star (THE star)

was another simple circuit, I used a smaller battery, and a simpler switch.

Overhead rig

(lighting plan designed by simon wilkinson)

The Halo needed to sit above the lighting bars, so it could disappear above the lamps.

this meant rigging all the bars on trapezes, the plan gives an idea of where the bars were to sit, this did mean a lot of time to work out where all the lamps were to plug in & Pair