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General:
- www.hstech.org - The High School
Technical Production Website. This site is one of the best resources
on the web for students learning stagecraft. The site is written with
high school stage techs in mind, making it an extremely useful tool for all
high school and collage students learning the art of stagecraft.
Sections on design, how-tos, and lots more. Also check out the
associated HS Tech Google
Group Tip: use the top menus
on the hstech.org site to navigate, they will take you where you want to go.
- www.controlbooth.com - This
site is another great stagecraft resource for teens. The forums are
the real gem on this site. Here you will find lots of HS and collage
stagecrafters, as well as professionals in the theatrical field who can
answer pretty much any question that you have.
- The Stagecraft
Email Mailing List. Probably the best all-around resource for online
discussion of technical theatre. Participants range from community theatre
technicians and designers to people with serious Broadway credits.
Participants are located in almost every part of the world. The list
frequently has content that is very valuable to college lighting students,
and the archives are a huge wealth of information.
- The Stagecraft
FAQ. Although a bit dates (1992) this FAQ contains a great deal of
information on all sorts of Stagecraft issues.
Lighting
- Stage lighting 101
& 102
from the folks over at Vincent Lighting. Excellent primers on
lighting. 102 contains a more fleshed out version of the same
information as 101.
- The Stage Lighting Primer.
- Stage Lighting For Students - This website contains a huge amount of
information on and relating to stage and theater lighting. An excellent
primer for anyone learning to light a stage.
- Tech Index from
- Dorian Kelly has assembled some excellent articles and resources
here. Well worth a read.
Rigging
Library Books
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The Backstage Handbook: An Illustrated Almanac of
Technical Information
by Paul Carter
This book covers a wide range of stagecraft topics. |
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Technical Theatre for Nontechnical People
by Drew Campbell
This book is primarily aimed at people who have to work with techies,
but who haven't had any tech experience, however it is also a good early
primer for tech people, too. |
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The Perfect Stage Crew: The Complete Technical Guide for
High School, College, and Community Theater
by John Kaluta
An excellent book for anyone working on a High School, College, or
Community Theater production. |
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Practical Guide to Stage Lighting
by Steven Louis Shelley |
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Light on the Subject: Stage Lighting for Directors and
Actors - And the Rest of Us
by David Hays |
Other
Audacity. Audacity is an
open source (GPL, free) audio editing package with a wide
array of features. Audacity can record live sound, import and export
most sound formats, edit multi track audio, add audio effects, perform various
sound analysis, use a wide range of plug-ins and more.
Multiplay.
Multiplay is a very capable little freeware program written for the PC by David
Duffy that is similar to Qlab in features. MultiPlay is designed to play
audio cues for theatre or corporate use. A wide range (wav, mp3, wma, etc) of
audio files are supported. If your installation of Windows Media Player can play
it, so can MultiPlay. The program includes a wide array of cue types,
including Single (mono or stereo) audio file; a list of audio files to play
sequentially for pre-show, intermission, etc; Timed pauses; Fade one or
more running cues and; Serial strings to trigger an external device. Q-Manager.
Free and paid versions of this software is available. Decent sound cueing
for stage shows. Lots and lots of features. |
