Lots more work this week! The Streisand show is taking up a lot of time, but it’s a lot of fun! There’s also a few movies that I’m currently working on as well as a few live events, like the US Gymnastics show! It’s really cool to be able to work on such a variety of shows and events, it really keeps me on my toes wondering what is coming in everyday and what I’ll get to do! Also, got to help out a bit scanning scores for Back to the Future Live. These live shows are really interesting to get to know behind the scenes, especially how the printed music has to show and relate to what is going on on screen. The conductor gets a lot of notes in his book and streamers to make sure the picture is lined up just right to the music! I haven’t gotten to see any shows so far, but I definitely need to go to the Hollywood Bowl soon, because it looks amazing and it’s even cooler that I get to work on some of the shows that play there!
Other than those few things, work has kept me pretty busy doing a lot of the things I have been learning a lot of over the past month. A lot of printing and taping scores and parts, as well as booking up and tearing down shows. However, I have begun to see more about the systems they use and how everything works a bit more in depth. I now know how to use a lot of the computer systems, how to look up things some people might need, and just in general how to run the back room.
Also, an exciting thing that happened this week was we got a new intern that is really cool! He’s also in music school as is really fun to talk to. My coworkers decided it was time I take on an apprentice of my own...and tasked me with training him! Definitely something I was unprepared for but I did my best and tried to pass down as much knowledge as I could to help him know exactly what he needed to do! There’s a lot of stuff I still don’t know, however, and a lot of skills that my coworkers can describe better, so they helped me out as well when more work started flowing into the office and we all had to concentrate a bit more on the work at hand. We worked on Saturday as well for a bit, but we ordered pizza in for lunch so it was a pretty good day!
Also, an exciting thing that happened this week was we got a new intern that is really cool! He’s also in music school as is really fun to talk to. My coworkers decided it was time I take on an apprentice of my own...and tasked me with training him! Definitely something I was unprepared for but I did my best and tried to pass down as much knowledge as I could to help him know exactly what he needed to do! There’s a lot of stuff I still don’t know, however, and a lot of skills that my coworkers can describe better, so they helped me out as well when more work started flowing into the office and we all had to concentrate a bit more on the work at hand. We worked on Saturday as well for a bit, but we ordered pizza in for lunch so it was a pretty good day!
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