AUDI FOR GENERAL USE

THIS WEB SITE IS TO SHOW YOU HOW TO USE THE AUDITORIUM

FOR GENERAL USE, SUCH AS WATCHING A MOVIE, 

OR GIVING A  PRESENTATION.

(As explained by Bob Jaques)

RAISING AND LOWERING THE SCREEN

Looking at the stage from down on the floor, to your right where the stage curtain meets the side of the stage, go around the corner and about 5 feet off the floor is a "rocker" switch.  Push the rocker switch so the bottom goes down to lower the screen and push the switch on the top to raise it back up again.

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TURNING ON THE PROJECTOR:

*Turn the projector on by using the small black remote that should be kept on the AV cart. It is marked AUDI. The laptop secured to the cart is connected to COMPUTER 1 input on the projector. There should be a VGA cable WITH AN ADAPTER to connect to the laptop's DISPLAY PORT, not the vga connector. If you have turned everything on and have selected COMPUTER 1 and you still see only a white image up on the screen, but no computer screen, here are some things to check:

1: Is the cable with the adapter plugged into the DISPLAY PORT on the laptop?

2: Once you have logged in, and have turned on the projector, the laptop we use requires you to push the WINDOWS key while pushing the P key and then a window will pop up for you to select DUPLICATE from the menu choices. This will make the display show up on the screen.

*The Laptop provided is a Windows machine with Microsoft Office installed. There are labels on it indicating how to log in "locally" if you are not from the Bow School District. If you need to get on the internet you should find out from the person you booked the auditorium through, or a school IT Tech person.

 *If you or a guest speaker for your event has brought their personal computer to use in the Auditorium, you will need to unplug the large light colored cable from the side of our laptop.

**Another thing to remember is that whoever needs to disconnect this cable should be familiar enough with their own computer to know how to connect it, if an adapter is needed or any other procedures are required ON THAT COMPUTER to send that video signal to our video screen. For example certain laptops need to have a key pressed once all the cables are connected (like above). Another is that Macs come with a small adapter to connect it to this cable. We can provide this adapter when school is in session but arrangements should be made with us if one is needed any other time.

 Once the projector is on you can turn your attention to the the AV cart which has a DVD player and a computer on it. THE SOUND from this equipment goes into a small mixer on the AV cart. It has stickers on it to show you where you can adjust the volume, if needed, for the computer or the DVD. There should be a cable and a mic plugged right into the top of the mixer, labeled MIC, with a volume control above it.  If the MIC is not there then make sure it is available for you. It is usually kept in the cabinet under the cart.

*To view a DVD you can either use the computer or you can switch to the black Samsung DVD player by simply TURNING IT ON. Doing this will make a little box switch automatically from the computer to the DVD player. You can see the little box on the side of the cart. It will blink on and off. If you want to see the computer again turn the DVD player off. You should also know that the DVD player will play Blu-ray disks as well.

NOTE: You only need to keep the projector on Computer 1 input source. This will handle both computer and DVD player. 

*To turn the projector off push the power button in the upper right corner of the remote. 

You should see up on the screen that the “projector is powering off, push power again to cancel”.

INSTRUCTIONS BELOW WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO TURN THE SOUND SYSTEM ON

FROM UP IN THE CONTROL BOOTH.

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This is the Main power switch in the Control Booth. 

THE SYSTEM IS USUALLY KEPT ON DURING THE WEEK BUT IF YOU GO UP THERE AND THE ROW OF RED LIGHTS ARE OFF, WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS PUSH UP ON THE LEVER MARKED MAIN POWER  ,IT WILL THEN TURN ON ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT IN THE RACK THAT YOU NEED FOR SOUND. YOU WILL THEN SEE THE ROW OF LIGHTS TURN ON ONE BY ONE.

PLEASE NOTE

*The sound system for everyday use is set up to NOT use the large mixer in the booth, 

pictured here. 

It is bypassed so that the AV cart down on the floor is connected directly to the speakers.

 As long as the AV cart and main system are on, you should hear sound through the speakers.

Picture showing the backstage area. The circle is highlighting

the TELEX headphone system. To the left of that

is the pad for the house lights.

*This TELEX system needs to be turned on from the booth.

Most likely if you need the TELEX system you'll need to be

running sound and lights from the booth anyway. But there are times when

you just need to communicate between both sides of backstage without

having to use all of the equipment in the booth.

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 TO ADJUST THE "HOUSE" LIGHTS

Backstage right, there is a wall plate with buttons, to the right of a large black AV box.

These are the PRESETS for the HOUSE LIGHTS:

ON = Brings house lights up to 100%

PRESET 1 = House lights up with stage lights. For SENIOR SEM

presentations on the stage, using the screen.

PRESET 2 = House lights 100% with 2 spot lights on the floor

PRESET 3 = MOVIE - All lights down, except side lights up.

PRESET 4 = Stage lights on at 60% and house lights on at FULL.

This is if the stage lights are needed without having to go up to the

booth to turn them on.

Notes:

*Using the arrow buttons at the bottom,

the levels of the lights can be adjusted up or down.

*The lights are set to shut off automatically at 11 pm.

*PLEASE make sure you put the lights back to the top ON preset.

*This is what it looks like when you select PRESET 2. 

You absolutely want to use this if you are doing a presentation from the floor. 

This picture is a little brighter than what it really looks like.

In reality it will be just a little too dark for people to see you. 

You want people to see you, as well as seeing what is up on the screen.

 DID YOU KNOW THERE IS ANOTHER WAY TO RUN THE LIGHTS 

FROM THE BOOTH WITHOUT USING THE LIGHT BOARD?

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!

The LARGE bright, auditorium lights and the stage work lights

 There is a 3 light switch to turn on the stage work lights and to turn on the large lights in the auditorium. The large lights are usually kept off.  The one on the far right is the stage work lights, it's usually the only one you'll need to use of these three, since you have to turn these on to see anything on the stage.