Most theatre companies have a scene
shop where the set gets built and painted. I have had much experience working
in a scene shop. I worked in a scene shop all throughout high school and
learned so much. I knew that when I came to college I would start working in
the Department of Theatre’s scene shop too. Now that I’m taking college level technical
theatre classes, I’m learning a lot of new things in class, but there’s no comparison
to hands-on learning. I'm a scene shop employee so I get to do hands-on work every week. One can read a book on painting techniques, but you don’t
really learn that technique unless you practice it. One day in class we did
talk about different painting techniques, and it was hard to learn it until I practiced
it in the scene shop. I learn so much more working in the scene shop than in
class. This shows me that hands on work is a necessity in technical theatre
careers. It would be very hard for a scenic designer to design if he didn’t know
how to paint. I love working in the scene shop and all the educational benefits
that come with it.
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