Basic Stage Terms For Musicians, Actors, and Techs - Stagecraft 101
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- A stagecraft terms video guidebook. Some of the most frequently used stage terms in live music, broadcast, and theatrical productions are discussed in this video. Essentially a Stagecraft 101 as far as stage work terminology goes.
Terms like Stage right, Stage left, Upstage, Downstage, etc. all explained.
These terms are applicable to musicians, actors, bands, techs, stagehands, directors, producers, production managers, etc.. Important and frequently used terms for understanding directions whether for loading in, loading out, setting up, equipment and cable placement, stage pinning, microphone placements, theatrical blocking, etc.. Also, indispensable for reading stage plots and communicating directions.
Frequently used in live sound reinforcement, live audio and lighting productions, broadcast, television productions, video productions, theaters, concerts, multi-band festivals, and even conferencing. Anywhere that professional stages and performances or events are held.
From the largest tours to the smallest productions, being able to communicate using these common terms can help setup and show flow issues from load in to performance, all the way to load out and the doors closing on the trailers and trucks.
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Video summary- A 'Roadie' or tech handbook / Stagecraft tutorial / live production tutorial. Typical users of this information include people in these roles: lighting designer, LD, production manager, director, producer, artists, actors, musicians, stagehands /stage hands among others.
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For anyone needing additional help distinguishing upstage and downstage, some classical stages were graded, meaning they weren't flat like we see today, but tilted. The "upstage" area was physically higher than the "downstage" area. So you would have to walk UP to get "upstage" and DOWN to get "downstage". Hope that helps.
Great information for the beginners or even touch up info for the seasoned people to help the newbies
Once touring resumes, there will probably be a lot of information everyone will need to brush up on. A lot of longtime routines have sure been broken. Just remembering case packs might be an adventure! ;)
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I hear a lot of "pipe coming in mid-stage, watch you heads!" Your videos are fantastic! Thank you for your effort 🙂
Thanks!!
"Heads up!" can be an unnecessary distraction, as an addition to "lineset 28 coming in!!"... it may seem trivial, but if a batten's about to pop my grape I don't need to be looking up searching for it I need to gtfo lol.
This is giving me flashbacks lol. "MIDSTAGE pipe moving. Clear on the grid?"
Prompt and OP (Opposite Prompt) are used in theatre also for State Left and Stage Right respectively
gonna start a stagehand job soon, so thanks for the info! i'm sure it'll be a lot easier to get the hang of this if i heard all of this before ^^
Best of luck!
Just remember two rules. Do it faster, and don't fuck it up.
Thank you for the videos. Able to solve some controversy with myself!
You're welcome!
Love this
Thank you this was super helpful as I’m about to start a new job! 🙏
Glad it was helpful. Good luck with the new job!
Cool, thank you! :)
Be a stagehand they said! You'll get famous and rub elbows with great people and go places beyond your wildest dreams they said!
And the closet filled with black shirts and pants... ;)
Thanks for the video. Great info. At the end you mentioned offstage. Is there a such thing as offstage right, offstage left or offstage center?
Yes, definitely. Offstage left and offstage right are pretty common in situations where the stage is temporary and monitor world or guitar world (etc.) would be built offstage. It would still be valid on permanent stages where the wing areas just lead to dressing rooms, and monitor world and guitar world live on the deck, but it might be more common to refer to those as the wings. But either term would work and be understood.
If you're referring to some area of the room far offstage, it could be house left and house right as another way to say it, just to get someone's attention even farther away from the stage. House left would be from the FOH sound person's perspective... facing the stage... their left side.
20 years professionally nevermind simply growing up in the industry, this is fun 😄
Thank you for this, I'm thinking of becoming a stagehand, I know it's gonna be hard but I'll push through
any tips on how to find a spot or chance to get hired?
If you live near a large city, you might try getting with the local stagehand union about getting yourself on the call list.
Otherwise, or also, try and find a local area production company and let them know you'd be available for stagehand work.
And if you get a bite, don't turn it down. I realize there are times things don't work out, but there's no quicker way to fall to the bottom of the call list than not be available the first time you're called. Or rarely be available when called. And no quicker way to move up the call list than be available the first time and each time you're called.
When one of the regular hands is not available, you make yourself the first call by always being ready and doing good work when you are called. And many times the amount of events, or scale of an event, will have an extended labor call. So, there will be opportunities to work your way up. Eventually, you are one the regular hands.
And for some rare time where it just can't work, it's still good to be the person who tries to make it work in some way. "I'm flying in from a funeral Friday and won't be back in town until after the call time for the load in.... But, I could definitely make the load out if that helps" tells the prospective crew chief you want to work.
You can also use the opportunity to be a sponge and learn more about the technical side of things. Not only able to do as instructed, but learn about DMX universes, signal flow basics, etc...
@@AlanHamiltonAudio wow after all this time you're still active, I appreciate your advice and will definitely try them, I'm just about to graduate SH and still don't know what I want to do since I don't like staying in jobs that have repetition but after looking at my interests and realizing that i've been doing semi-stagehand work at school I figured why no turn it into a career since the work you do could change everytime 😁
again Thank You for the advice and hopefully I reach my dreams, one last question are there any college courses or vocational education I could take to help me get an advantage in the field?
Contact your local IATSE...
@@ianoverton5634 union isn't the only way.
@@jefftaylor529 I didn't say it was...
This was well done. I've been in the business for two decades. I'm looking for some videos for a friend to learned our craft. You have any more of these 101 videos?
There is this one about cable management:
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There's a planned video about case dimensions and truck and trailer packing (and packaging).
The most recent video was just showing a show setup and strike. No commentary, but with text/graphics. I'm working on a second one that is basically the same, but a different show, and showing more show day prep/setup and strike that will probably be posted on Monday. Not sure if those fit the bill for what you're looking for or not. I'm editing this new one to a track like I did the last one, but I might add some commentary to it instead of text, or just text. Although it flows pretty well with the music and no commentary... so not sure how it will end up in the final version.
@@AlanHamiltonAudio thanks bud
Funny story my last assistant and I laugh about, we had a boss who'd literally pull 100ft cables off the street (think festivals) and drop piles of spaghetti right at the cases.
For you noobs, don't do that lol. Coiling cable is more fun if you organize it, and spaghetti isn't organized.
I usually hear center stage refered to as on stage and the sides as off stage. Maybe that's just our team.
I've kind of heard that a bit when focusing lights... Especially like when it's close... "Turn that first fixture stage right. More... Close.... Just a little more (toward) offstage".
But it gets kind of confusing too... Because offstage is offstage. If someone tells someone to place (or focus) something offstage, and they don't actually mean off of the stage, then it could get confusing.
The same would be true if centerstage just meant on the stage but I suppose if it gets it onstage it probably doesn't matter in most cases. But if center stage really means center stage, and someone interprets it as just meaning onstage... then that could lead to moving things twice. Set pieces that were meant to go centerstage ending up anywhere other than centerstage just slows things down.
I think it's probably better to be more accurate in most cases just to avoid those kind of problems and take assumptions out of the mix.
“Onstage” and “offstage” are commonly used as DIRECTIONS, not just vague areas off or on the stage. “Move onstage 1 foot” means move towards center 1 foot. “Move offstage 1 foot” means move 1 foot towards the nearest edge of the stage. If an item is SL of center then “onstage” means SR and “offstage” means SL. If an item is SR of C then “onstage” means SL and “offstage means SR. Using these terms, rather than “stage left” or “stage right,” in certain situations (like focusing FOH lights) can eliminate any split second confusion that could occasionally arise due to opposite perspectives. Because, let’s face it…even after decades on stage it’s still possible to confuse SL and SR for a split second, especially when facing upstage..
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i cant read the red font
Noted. I might implement some of this in a new version in the future so I'll skip the red text.
'Please help me put my guitar amp DSR' ;-) thanks !
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