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The Beastly Hall for Cornwall with a Beauty
01 month ago
Last week my boyfriend and I also paid a visit to the Hall for Cornwall for a production of the Beauty and the Beast by TAODS. Their performance of it was very good with superb set. A few flying errors especially as the one we saw was the last one of the run. Most of the cloths were bounced and one came in too far allowing the audience to see the bar and the ties, even from row M where we were sat, which then had to be taken out slightly.
A couple of lighting effects were not very well thought of and looked, for a lack of a better word, a bit naff. A way I can tell that the show was good is with what my boyfriend says about it. He said this one was ok, which by most peoples standards is good. Especially for an amateur performance, as he has seen the professional production I expected no less. If his comment was “It was interesting” then he didn’t really enjoy it.
The cast performed this show very well and all the songs were sung very well. I really enjoyed the performance and had a good time with my boyfriend watching it. Another show well done for TAODS.
A Titanic Experience
01 month ago
Last week on Friday 6th April my boyfriend and I took a trip down to the Minack Theatre. We went there to watch a production of Titanic the Musical by the Atlantic Theatre Company. Knowing some of the cast I was able to get company seats to watch the performance. The show was absolutely great. As I am writing this they are preparing for their last performance commencing at 22:20 so that key moments of the performance occur when they happened 100 years ago.
This is only the second show I have seen at the Minack with the last one I saw I was actually operating lighting for it. I was very impressed with the show. The cast were fantastic a few wrong choices for some of the songs. I could not fault the performance other than that. The cast were great, as was the lighting and sound.
We couldn’t have asked for better weather when we went to see it with sunshine to start till it went down behind the theatre and then had a moderate temperature for the most part only getting slightly chillier for the last half an hour.
Video to Climbing
01 month ago
I managed to get a lot of coursework done during the day yesterday and am close to completing the LS9 coursework. The only thing that is annoying me at the moment is a cold I have which is heavily affecting my chest and making me cough and be very wheezy the last few days.
We had our last video practical yesterday as well, which was assessed. We looked at some of the possible test signals for PAL systems to see what the different signals looked like and what they are used for.
After our practical we took a trip to the Rock UK Summit Centre in Treharris. Below are the pictures that I took of them all climbing.
Climbing Weekend
02 months ago
by Michael Caddy
in Latest News
This weekend I had my boyfriend down spending Friday night till today with me. Decided to show him the labs at uni on Saturday quickly and then go to the union with members of our course to watch the Wales rugby game followed by the England game. Had a fun day on Sunday with climbing with some other people on our course as a break from all the work we have had recently and still have a few more to go yet. Today we followed this up and we walked up Y Garn, we would have then followed this with Pen Y Fan but the wind was not agreeing with my ears and was causing one of them real pain so we then went back down. Next time a hat will defiantly be in order.
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Who plugged that in there?
02 months ago
Yesterday evening for our Live Sound Technology 2 module it was our last assessment for this year. The brief was to create a sound system for a medium scale talent search event. We had to design a talkback system and all the routing to get signals between several different areas including: the main stage; the foyer stage; the backstage area; the stage manager; outside; and a broadcast feed
I believe the practical went very well. The basis of the groups design was from my original plan. The majority of the system worked straight away, apart from a couple of cables that did not work or were in the wrong connection, and pressing of the wrong buttons. Everyone seemed to pull their weight for this practical more so than a couple of other pracs we have had.
Below is the time-lapse of the setup that we ended up doing, I could have done with a couple of cameras to have the full system in view as wherever it was placed would miss some of the action. I regret not doing it for the rigging practical as well because that would have been a very good one to do.
Ignorance and Abuse: NO H8
02 months ago
by Michael Caddy
in Rants
It still surprises me how many people can be so ignorant and post things that are hurtful to others. It also surprises me how much people can still not accept people with different beliefs or attractions. This post may turn into a bit of a rant
A Fully Fed Hippo: with Photos
02 months ago
by Michael Caddy
in Uni
The labs at Glamorgan University were open again this weekend on Saturday from 10 till 3 as they will be until the end of term. I went up to work on my sound assignment mostly but also wanted to have a better look around the Hippotizer.
I set the hippo up with two projectors overlapping in Pan mode, also with two monitors for the GUI. After all the problems with the Hippo on the Friday, I turned it on today and it worked straight away, with all screens and projectors live and displaying an output.
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Zookeepers and Hippos
22 months ago
by Michael Caddy
in Uni
We had a video practical today where the plan was to have a go with the Green Hippo Hippotizer which the university owns. The Hippotizer is a Media Server. We had several problems in getting it to work. We spent three hours with no success and then I decided just out of interest what happens if I swap the H Sync and V Sync connections on the break out to VGA.
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Wednesday of Shows
02 months ago
Last Wednesday was a day full of shows. We left Treforest at 7 and headed to London.
The main reason we had gone was for the ARC Show, an architectural lighting show. There was a few bits that interested me but it did not take us long to go around the show and look at the bits that interested us. So we decided to catch a matinee of a show as we were in London. It had to be done. Some of the group went to watch Wicked, whilst me and two others went to watch Les Miserables. Although I wanted to see Wicked I knew my boyfriend wanted to take me so I wanted my first time seeing that show with him as it was his favourite musical.
The importance of Ctrl-S or Cmd-S
02 months ago
Have you ever gone
I will save that in a minute when I’ve added this and this to it
Then it’s just at the point you are ready to save the screen goes black and switches itself off, or the BSOD?
It did that to me today. I was happily editing my WYSIWYG design and the screen went black and the laptop turned itself off. Most of the time when I am doing programming etc I press Ctrl-S all the time. But today I didn’t think about it and forgot and lost 5 hours of work adding all my lights into the right places. To say I am now not in the best of moods is an understatement. Especially on reloading Wyg and for the first time it not recovering at least everything up to the last 10 minutes, it recovered nothing.
Ctrl-S and Cmd-S are so useful and for the rest of the day that I am going to be working on that and doing the write up those keys are going to be pressed at least every few changes.
Just realised I haven’t had lunch yet today because I’ve been so concentrating on my Lighting Design assignment which all the stuff I did on my laptop has now been lost. Should probably have some lunch now.
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