Sounds
The Sounds Team handles the audio needs of the productions, such as overseeing the audio recording set-ups for the cast, ensuring quality audio recordings and smooth recording sessions.
The Sounds Team handles the audio needs of the productions, such as overseeing the audio recording set-ups for the cast, ensuring quality audio recordings and smooth recording sessions.
One of the best things about being part of a production team for a blueREP show is seeing how your work impacts the show and the audience's experience of the show. As a Sounds person, I see how being able to achieve the right eq and mix every show is so important. It is about much more than just sound waves at different frequencies coming out of speakers and bouncing around the room and hitting people's ears. It's also about being able to properly blend the beauty in the music with the emotion in an actor's performance and feeling how that makes such a huge impact on the show not only for the audience but also for the performers on stage as well. It may be hard sometimes to physically see your impact on a show as a Sounds member but I know that I'm helping get the message of the show across to the audience, whether they notice it or not. It is definitely a challenging job, but the satisfaction you get from doing it is so worth it.
Working for Sounds in blueREP is a very eye-opening experience. If you critique productions based solely on the people performing on stage, then you haven’t experienced a production where a cast member’s mic was accidentally muted. This goes for all the other production teams: lights, hair & make-up, and props; with that, you’d realize how much of a family is built from these teams. Everyone who’s interested in theater should at least try out for one production team, I would highly recommend sounds not only because I’ve been in it multiple times, but also because it could help you understand the inner workings of theater as well as appreciate the bonds built within the fourth wall, be it online or on-site. It also allows you to learn skills that you could use in your daily life or professional life such as team building, problem solving, and working under pressure.
Doing Sounds work for blueREP work is always interesting; not only because it’s unique in a way that no two recording sessions are the same, but also because the community surrounding blueREP is wonderful. At first, I didn’t sign up for sounds work—but then I guess it deemed me as the chosen one because I have not stopped being in sounds and I think partly one of the reasons why I choose to keep going is truly because of the community. Sounds work doesn’t seem like something a lot of people would be interested in, but I genuinely will try to convince you to give it a try because not only will you learn a lot about audio and recording, but you will also get to practice thinking on the fly and being adaptable to different situations. Especially given the online setting where not everyone has the same equipment and accessibility to different areas, a Sounds member would need to be adaptable and quickly think of possible solutions and remedies to some problems that might arise. Not only that, but you can also get to use the things you’ve learned in sounds in your own life, with things tweaking and improving on your own setups. I highly encourage you to try out doing Sounds work- you will for sure learn a lot, and if anything else, you have this wonderful Sounds community to back you up.
