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The Box office: Press release how to!
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Sunday, March 25, 2007. Press release how to! Tired of seeing the same old faces, and not nearly enough of them at all of your events? Try writing a press release to send to local media outlets! It’s not nearly as hard as it sounds and you may be surprised at the response you’ll get! Here are a few good tips to get you started. 1 Write it like a news story. The less rewrite you need the more likely it will get printed! Remember the 5 w’s from 5th grade creative writing? Who, what, when, where and why!
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The Tech Booth
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009. There is a new kid in town! Google Sketchup 7 is the BADDEST sketchup yet, with a small format onbaoard, photo-realistic rendering engine provided by IDX renditioner express you can see your designs come to life in record time. For those of you who are still breaking out the cardboard to model in three dimensions or limping along with Gimp, or 3d max give sketchup a try. You might find that designing scenery is fun again. See my article in the scen shop dept for more details.
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The Tech Booth: Stage lighting 101
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Friday, March 9, 2007. Why Do I need Stage Lighting? The short answer is, depending on your performance space, you don’t. In fact I have included a tutorial on building your own from halogen work lamps that can be purchased for around ten dollars apiece. While makeshift lights like these can be fun they are limited. They also can get very hot and tend not to last as long as stage lights. There are three basic kinds of traditional stage lights: A par can or spotlight, a fresnel, and an ellipsoidal. Is a s...
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The Tech Booth: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009. There is a new kid in town! Google Sketchup 7 is the BADDEST sketchup yet, with a small format onbaoard, photo-realistic rendering engine provided by IDX renditioner express you can see your designs come to life in record time. For those of you who are still breaking out the cardboard to model in three dimensions or limping along with Gimp, or 3d max give sketchup a try. You might find that designing scenery is fun again. See my article in the scen shop dept for more details.
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The scene shop: No Fly Floor? No Problem! Rolling Backdrop!
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Monday, March 12, 2007. Tired of single backdrop sets, or worse yet a plain blue cyc. Try this simple and inexpensive solution! When we renovated our store front space. So I went to take a look. I found that he had used a roller (the bottom piece that the cloth rolls onto) made of 6" PVC pipe. He then had used 3 single roller pulleys, one on stage left and two stage right to achieve an effect similar to what you see in the diagram above. I eventually discovered that a 2x4 trimmed down slightly on the tab...
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The Tech Booth: March 2007
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Saturday, March 10, 2007. Make your own stage lighting. Did you know they sell stage lighting at the hardware. Well okay, it needs a smidge of customizing, but follow these instructions and you should have no problem taking work light, to stage light. First, assemble your materials. You will need: One halogen worklight. I used the 500 Watt variety to provide maximum illumination, and a good range for dimming. One rectangle heating register starter collar. Cut the register collar. After giving the spray a...
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The Box office: Bye bye box office!
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008. Bye bye box office! I mentioned in my last post that I would be sharing another new secret we recently learned. Our beautifully printed posters not only are catching the eye of more potential audience members, but, we got a most interesting call. There is a locally owned internet. Ticketing agent that runs a site called Okctickets. In addition they also print professional, glossy, barcoded. Tickets @ 10cents each! No setup fee, no design fee) All of this at no charge to you! 6 The...
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The Box office
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009. Three rules to run a box office by:. First: The customer is always right. Even when they are wrong, let them know that their concerns are legitimate. Fix it if you can, if you can't then sympathize, but if they are not endangering anyone or causing a scene, do your best to make them want to come back, and hopefully bring friends! Keep plenty of change, extra receipts, pens. And whatever else you might need. Again, you want them to come back. Third: The show's the thing! The Lob...
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The Box office: Be Frugal, Not Cheap!
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Be Frugal, Not Cheap! Doing quality work always pays off. We recently began hiring a printer to make our show bills (posters) with tremendous results. Not only do we get 11x17” full color, glossy photo quality card stock posters from a local vendor (gotta love that supporting the local economy) for less than a buck a piece (kinkwho’s? But we have found that these beauties are attracting a lot of attention. Then instead of giving up and continuing on in the same rut, make a few ...
