Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine production requirements
- Review production documentation to establish creative and technical parameters, as well as timelines for work
- Liaise with relevant personnel to determine scope of lighting requirements and production parameters
- Assess the capabilities of equipment to deliver required lighting effects and find ways to overcome deficiencies as required
- Connect and format advanced fixtures
- Check console fixture library to ensure correct inventory exists and is operational
- Connect console to advanced fixtures through appropriate control protocols and check to ensure designer’s control requirements can be achieved
- Test the capabilities of advanced fixtures through experimentation
- Set up soft patch required for productions to ensure advanced fixtures are connected to appropriate control surfaces
- Format palettes for advanced fixtures according to design requirements
- Maintain electronic and paper plots to take account of changes to original set-up
- Program consoles to receive pre-recorded material from external sources
- Assess protocol, program type and connectivity of external source material for compatibility with main console
- Complete appropriate backups of external source material prior to transfer to main console
- Assess the need for changes to source material and determine whether changes can be made on external device of main console
- Set up main console and external device, transfer material and check that transfer was successful
- Plot and operate cues
- In consultation with relevant personnel, determine the cue types and effects required
- Record cues that include advanced fixture types, standard cues and effects within agreed timeframe
- Create, use and recall palettes
- Participate in technical rehearsals and discussions to test cues and effects
- Modify cues as required and update cue sheets and other documentation accordingly
- Operate cues during shows to create the required lighting effects
- Resolve operational problems with lighting with minimal disruption to performances
- Complete post-show procedures
- Execute power down and disassemble equipment safely
- Pack and store equipment and accessories according to safety regulations and production requirements
- Clean work environment after use, and restore environment to previous condition
- Contribute to evaluations of productions and implement recommendations aimed at improving effectiveness of lighting operations
- Seek feedback from relevant personnel on own work performance and note areas for improvement