A review of work in the UNR Scene Shop

by brian
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:03am (PST)

So this is my first blog that I am posting, obviously, and as such I decided that I should go over the work that I did before I came up to Reno.

For the first month of my internship I worked at the scene shop at UNR. These few weeks were informative, education, but full of test and trials for me. There is no doubt that I have gained an immense amount of knowledge doing the work I was doing.

I spent most of my day at first building the wood platforms and gigantic steel trusses. And then later in the process I was able to feed my artistic side by painting the big set pieces. The experience has been invaluable to me, but with every good, there is a bad: certain aspects of the process were frustrating to me. But I rack this frustration to being unfamiliar to a professional setting. So I am not worried about that.

But I can honestly say, that despite all the frustration, all the hard work and all the painstaking labor, spending one day up in Tahoe and seeing even just a portion of the rehearsals, it has been worth it. Down in Reno there were times when I didn’t know why I was doing this internship, but that no longer is present in my mind, now that I can see the people who love it as much as I do, who put just as much work into it as I did, and it re-energizes me to keep doing what I’m doing.

So yeah, there you have it. The work in the shop was hard, but worth it.