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Snow Queen

Summary
Dates	8th - 16th December 2016
Performance Course	Third Year BA Acting
Location	New Atheneum Theatre
Creative
Director	Douglas Irvine
Designer	Robin Peoples
Sound Designer	Calum Paterson
Lighting Designer	Kieran Kenning
Production Team
Stage Manager	Miranda Stewart
Deputy Stage Manager	Valentino Fabbreschi
Assistant Stage Manager	Rebecca Bell
Assistant Stage Manager	Louise Charity
Technical Stage Manager	Stuart Leech
Head Flyman	Yesha Subotincic West
Deputy Technical Stage Manager	Dimitri Grant
Production Electrician	Matthew Turnbull
Deputy Production Electrician	Euan Odd
Lighting Programmer	Gary Ashbridge
Technical Crew	Popy Apter
Dylan Hodgson
Allan Hamilton
Ross Brodie
Jak Coventry
Karyn Wilson
Craig Stevenson
Regan Kelly
Andrew Johnstone
James Hamilton
Adlai Faigen

The Snow Queen

A fun, thrilling and magical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s wintery tale. The Snow Queen has cast a spell on Kay - freezing his heart and stealing him away to her Ice Palace - all part of her wicked plan to turn the world into winter. But young Gerda has different ideas and undertakes a daring quest to rescue both Kay and the world from the Snow Queen’s icy grip.

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Stage Management

Title Of Something

And Some Information

Lalala

Technical Stage Management

Tracking, Trees, Trucks & Carts

Genie Trap

Side Masking

Equipment

Counter Weight Plinth

Vectorworks Project Sharing

In the early design process of Snow Queen the stage department discussed an idea of using a sharing based platform which would allow multiple user to feed into a single Vectorworks file. Initially we discussed sharing a single file on a cloud based server, however this was quickly ruled out due to multiple issues around access and version numbers.

We began to look at Vectorworks Project Sharing.

This feature allows users who have permission to access the file in the cloud (in our case Dropbox) to simultaneously edit different aspects of the same drawing. Different permission levels are granted by the administrator of the shared file, in turn allowing different users to edit different things.

By default, when the Project File: Snow_Queen_Master.vwxp, you will see that the file that actually opens on your computer is Snow_Queen_Master_yourusername.vwxw. This file is your Working File and is to be stored locally on your machine. It is where you are to make all changes and edits. As an added level of security the default permission for any user opening the Project File for the first time is ‘Read Only.’ Once the user has saved the Working File locally on their machine the administrator can edit the permission of that user to the appropriate one and then the user can begin editing.

The way Project Sharing in Vectorworks 2017 works is that each user can check-out one or multiple layers and edit them. When these layers are checked-out only the user that has checked them out can edit them. When the user wants to make the changes visible to others in the shared Project File, they need to Save and Commit their changes. This is done by going to File- Save and Commit. The user still has the layer or layers checked out. To release the layers, go to File- Close and Release.

IMPORTANT: If you have not Saved and Committed before Closing and Releasing, changes will not be saved, you will lose all work. Closing and releasing also closes the file.

Plans

Snow Drop

All information about the Snow Drop.

Automation

Similar to Dick McWhittington and The Neil Smith, Single Winch, Dual Lift Ladder Divert System™ Snow Queen required lighting ladders to move in show for truck to go on and off stage.

In times of old The Great Warlock Himself, Neil McDowell Frodo Skywalker Smith, wielded the great and awesome powers of ascension to bring light to the stage of Panto. Like the gilded war heroes before them a new generation of warriors set out to follow and albeit different path to shine light upon a dark and troubled world. They opted for the upstage ladders (hung off truss) to be suspended above the abyss of what is the New Atheneum Stage by not 1, not 3 but 2 automation points. Each span of truss was a 3m section and a 1m section. Stage right used automation winches 2 and 4 and stage left used points 1 and 3. To monitor the oppressing weight of darkness and lights hanging on the truss, each automation line also had Elven made load cells attached.

Looketh below and find the scroll that shows the states of automation used in this Great Show.