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Autumn term

Disney NDA seems pretty heavy but after speaking to the puppetry department they assured me that sharing images on my blog will be fine. I may email them anyway as to have this in writing. I got a rather discouraging email from a company I was hoping to do a placement for that suggested I…

Ceramics placement. Community oriented wire food gardens for hire.

GET OUT week. Packing up. Securing Arcade. Tool inventory. Taking everything down for containers to be taken back to the workshop. Was taught how to coil wire better. Unpacking and sorting in the workshop. Tidying and reorganising the workshop space. Building a portable woodbin with wheels with ruby. Re-designing the layout of the sent dispenser…

Covered FOH. Greeting customers, scanning tickets and briefing them for ARCADE. After shows I would do resets; wiping headphones, clearing up for the next showing as there would be fast turn overs. Also worked on Box office at the bar. Due to the cold we began to sell mulled wine (ft my sign!)

(SHORT WORK WEEK) Went and assisted on a Darkfield Workshop with Glenn and Victoria on binaural sound recording. Then went into the office to sort and label equipment and then worked FOH.

Week began with me generally assisting and on FOH then went on to run FLIGHT as a tech. Trained in and ran COMA. Being trusted to run shows meant a lot to me as having that responsibility as a work place student is rare. A lot of tasks I get asked to do are things…

Shows begin3rd oct-2nd november. I assist on FOH and bar this week and get a look at how things are run .Stocking inventory . Assisting costumers .Selling drinks and merch Official opening night on the 11th. influencers and press night. I start doing a lot of bar work which build my confidence and create connections…

PROLOGUE: Before I began my placement at Darkfield we had a teams meeting discussing how Darkfield is run, the layout of the show and roles we may have. I also got to meet the team and be introduced to another work place student. This was useful to help me understand what I would be expected…