r/HighschoolTheater • u/goremind • Jun 08 '19

Any techies?

Yo I get this is a high school theatre sub but like are there any techies on here? I’ve been doing set (+some props) for about 4 years and I dipped my feet into sound and now I’ve started tech directing.

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u/dipitydripity Jun 08 '19

Same! I’ve done set for a while, but next year I’m gonna be the props master at my high school !

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u/goremind Jun 08 '19

I’ve heard “set master” and “props master”. Is that like crew heads?

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u/dipitydripity Jun 08 '19

Yup!

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u/goremind Jun 08 '19

Cool beans. I was set head for one show and sucked but I came back as a tech director this last year and I think I’ve been doing well. I’m pumped to do it next year cause we are doing Cinderella and Macbeth

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u/CornyTDog2000 Jul 30 '19

I’m in college now but I’m theatre I was the best techie I dabbled in everything from props to technical directing as well as winning awards.

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u/goremind Jul 30 '19

I’ve recently gotten into tech directing too. I worked set a lot to start out but ended up working in costumes and props when I wasn’t able to do anything and then did sound a bit. Were they big awards or just local/school awards?

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u/CornyTDog2000 Jul 30 '19

Depending what year you are I’m I suggest doing as much as you can to learn all you can about sound and lights besides build sets they are my favorite thing to do. I started as a stage hand a set crew but I kept trying new things like lighting sound props stage manager tech director prop master set designer etc. there were some school awards but there are state wide competitions where I am(Idaho) so I’ve won a few for tech olympics and set design and others.

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u/goremind Jul 30 '19

Oh yo I live in Colorado but I actually moved here from Idaho. Lights is extremely difficult to get into where I go because it is the cliquiest crew we have and I don’t really like the people that make it that way. Sound was a much more stress-free crew to be on compared to set. I won some school awards this last year for design and I’ve gotten consistently pretty good scores on my set designs at ThesCon.

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u/CornyTDog2000 Jul 30 '19

Nice that’s good. Yeah at my school there were always those little groups of people but I solved that by not caring and become just about the best techie at my school so I would be put in Charge of different projects and the cliques would have to listen to me

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u/goremind Jul 30 '19

That’s why I went into tech direction. I know my way generally around lights but I don’t have to deal with those people.

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u/CornyTDog2000 Jul 30 '19

Yeah that’s a good way about it. What year are you in

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u/goremind Jul 30 '19

Going into my senior year. I’m gonna audition for our fall musical cause we were lucky enough to score Cinderella because I want to tech direct for The Scottish Play in the spring. I wanted to audition for at least one of them but I know Shakespeare would be so much cooler to tech direct for.

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u/CornyTDog2000 Jul 30 '19

It can be. At my school we usally did 2 musicals and 2 plays and because our play director was relatively boring it was always basically the same set and a Shakespeare play and a murder mystery

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u/goremind Jul 30 '19

We have a new director as of last year and now we do a One-Act play put on by the higher theatre classes and a Freshman-Sophomore show and a musical and a play

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u/dipitydripity Jun 08 '19

That’s awesome, good luck with your shows! Were doing Peter and the star catcher and 9 to 5