Sound Design & Documentation
Fairview (Fall 2024), Catawba Theatre, UNCSA Performance Place: Head Sound Engineer (A1)
Fairview was my first Head Engineer assignment at UNCSA! This show involved four remote actors who needed to be heard in the house. I created thourough paperwork documenting the system, as well as detailed information for building our system in the shop. Below is some of this paperwork. Additionally, this system needed to serve not only the functions of Fairview, but also as a reperatory system for any other events in the theatre through the course of the year.
Christ United Methodist Church System Documentation, December 2024
In the second semester of my senior year in high school, I led the sound for the school musical, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Working with an undocumented and outdated system posed many challenges, but I very much enjoyed the problem-solving process.
Basic routing spreadsheet I made to keep track of channels.
Inventory list I started, as things were very hard to find.
A picture of the setup when it was first powered on. Yamaha TF1 (Left) being used as a sub-mix for the pit orchestra, and Yamaha LS9 (Right) used for dialogue.
Learning the basics of QLab, as it's much easier to operate than SoundPlant, the software used for the fall play.
IMG_0432.movThe two consoles with the Macbook to run QLab, and space for the script in the middle.
Mix position on the last night of the show.
Sound team for Willy Wonka.
Using Shure Wireless Workbench to coordinate wireless frequencies in the space.
Using Applescript to automate show conditions settings on my mac.
Using Applescript to quit apps at the end of the show, and restore the original settings.
Most sound cues were created from either loops in the Apple library or recorded sounds, and edited together in this one project before being bounced as a .WAV to be used in QLab.
I worked as a system engineer for the NHS Drama club play. Due to catching COVID-19 the week of the production, I could not fill the role of the FOH engineer, however I did get to set up the system, oversee its use for the most part of May-June 2022, as well as tear it down at the end of the school year. Here are some pictures.
Due to scheduling conflicts, I could not participate in the rehearsals for the Fall play in my Senior year. I still wanted to help out, so I designed the sound effects and programmed scenes on the LS9 mixing console.
Moving the console from the light booth down to the house
The cheat sheet I made for the people running the system
The board in its new location with the computer running Soundplant, the software I used for audio cues.
The Soundplant keymap I made for the play