Snow Queen
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| 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
The Team
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Stage Department
The Team
The Technical Stage Department team consisted of;
Stuart Leech (Head of Stage) 
Dimitri Grant (Depute Head of Stage)
Yesha Subontincic West (Head of Flys)
First Years (Crew)
Tracking, Trees, Trucks & Carts
The House
The Castle
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The Throne
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Genie Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMRda7e02I
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Equipment
Counter Weight Plinth
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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.
More information can be found on the Vectorworks Project Sharing page: http://www.vectorworks.net/products/features/project-sharing
Plans
Snow Drop
The Snow drop was built for The Snow Queen the 2016 christmas show. It required snow to fall across the span of the Ath stage for a couple minutes. the budget did not stretch to hire proper snow drops and we could not use "bubble snow" due to the floor and set not being able to take it. The idea was to build a snow roller using plastic pipe in workshop. This project was taken on by Stuart Leech TSM, Dimitri Grant DTSM and Yesha Subotincic West Head of Flys.
The Drop was too heavy to move smoothly from Fly Floor so the lines were instead to a counterweight bar (bar 14) with 5 weights in the cradle. The operation was therefore done by moving a bar in and out rather than pulling hemp lines.
After the end of the tech the roller was switched out for a snow bag with the same rig and operation. The reason for this being that the time did not exist to perfect the snow fall from the roller. Given more time the roller would have been used.
Further Information information regarding the Snow Drop can be found here 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.
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Photos
A selection of photos of the build and production period of Snow Queen