I have to bring a portfolio. Awesome. I’ve made like three in the last month. I guess fourth time’s the charm.

Aw well, should be fun to explain to the high school technicians how vastly different it is in the university/professional world. 

I’m excited!

A recap of my USITT experience: 

• Day 1: Fancy-ish dinner with the dean of our department, the dean of the science/tech department, costuming professor, facilities manager, and other assorted theatre folk. 
• Day 2: Four sessions, (Foliage, Digital Portfolios, Digital Painting, West Coast Scenic - Painting). The keynote speaker was pretty interesting and during opening night the award winning young technicians heavily depressed me due to extremely high quality of their work. 
• Day 3: Northwest Regional Section Meeting, met some people from Central. People from PNTA, Village Theatre and Fifth Ave were there. And then the STAGE EXPO opened. HUZZAH. Glory to all the free swag. I could barely fit it all in my luggage. Then the session “PROPlem Solving with PROPer Communication”. Hooray for props. Then “Theatre Designers Working in Film and Television”. Afterwards we had the USITT Tumblr Tech Meet Up, where we met up with 16 people total. 
• Day 4: More Stage Expo! Then USITT Student Roundtable. We’re going to created a student chapter of USITT at our school. I’m looking forward to it. And “Properties at Cirque du Soleil”. They make incredibly fantastic stuff. And the Tech Olympics… Please don’t ask me how that went.
• Day 5: Even more Stage Expo. Interview with Cirque du Soleil. Interview with the Shakespeare Theatre New Jersey. Both went pretty well. Here’s hoping. Will be applying to the Home Shopping Network and another entertainment-based company. Then we walked around the beach/pier area a bit. Then closing night happened with plenty of yummy food. 

All in all, a pretty successful trip, with copious amounts of swag. 

*Tumblr Tech Meet Up picture to come.

• Foliage Session: I wanna build a forest! 
• Digital Portfolio: Very informative.
• Digital Printing: Boring for some strange reason. Disney totally stole the show. 
• West Coast Scenic: I’m completely jealous of their skills. 

Also please remember that the USITT TUMBLR TECHNICIAN MEET UP is happening tomorrow at 9pm (After the New Product Showcase) at Cold Stone Creamy in the area referred to as “The Pike”. 

Here’s a lovely map I put together for you:

If you kept walking downward off the map, you’d get to the waterfront. 

Reasons: 

• You can get a cool summer internship far away.
• If you get an internship: networking. (I still talk to my props master all the time). 
• You can meet other awesome technicians. They have a fun tech mixer at the beginning of the conference. (I still talk to a props master/carpenter/scenic designer type that I met at SETC last year.) 
• NETWORKING. (Meet people who can get you jobs!)
• Interview training. Even if you don’t get a job, you just got a ton of interview experience!
• Workshops. The classes are awesome. 
• There’s a little expo with cool free stuff/samples.
• Looking for transfer/go to grad school? There’s all sorts of booths for that. 

In summary: Go to SETC. You will not regret it. 

I need to send in a photo or two or three of my time in Charlotte. It needs to be something I’d put in my portfolio. 

So PLEASE go here and look at all the pictures on the first page (until you get to the light-up swords, those are from my university) and tell me which ones are the coolest/best.

This is to inspire Freshmen to follow in my footsteps and go get internships/summer jobs.

Thank you so much! 

Note: It also doesn’t need to be a picture of a finished product.