Wavemist Certified

Wavemist Certified: Cross-Vertical Fluency

Film/TV, touring, Broadway, corporate general session, and the 2026 live-event landscape — where the worlds differ and where the vocabulary overlaps.

What this track covers

1. 01

   Film & Television

   • ·Distinguish above-the-line from below-the-line and name which unions govern each
   • ·Map a film set's department structure and identify who runs the set and the shooting day
   • ·Explain the film-flavored cost drivers (turnaround, meal penalties, premiums) as the same rate-stack shape as live events
   • ·Identify the correct bidding format for commercials vs. features/TV and how venue type reshapes crew and cost
2. 02

   Touring & Live Music

   • ·Distinguish the traveling touring party roles (TM, PM, FOH/monitor, LD, V1, backline) from the local crew and know who owns money vs. production
   • ·Explain what advancing a tour date consists of and why standardization/venue-reusability is the core efficiency lever
   • ·Compare the operational shape of a one-off, a tour load-in, and a festival day (changeovers, rolling risers, shared PA)
   • ·Identify how the technical rider functions as part of the promoter deal, and how audio scales on tour (line array, system tuning, IEM, support-act patch/line check)
3. 03

   Broadway & Theatre

   • ·Map which union holds which work on a Broadway or major production (IATSE stagehands, AEA/Equity, SDC, USA 829, AFM) and correctly place the stage manager on the Equity side, not the crew side.
   • ·Sequence and distinguish the phases of a long theatrical load-in and tech process (dry tech, cue-to-cue, 10-out-of-12s, dress/previews) and what each accomplishes.
   • ·Explain how a running show is called and staffed: the SM calls cues from the booth to fixed crew positions, and the fly system and automation are specialized stagehand craft.
   • ·Read the map of professional theatre tiers (Broadway/West End, LORT/regional, touring Equity vs non-Equity, off-Broadway/community) and the eight-a-week calendar including dark days and two-show days.
4. 04

   Corporate & Convention AV

   • ·Map the anatomy of a corporate show — gen session, breakouts, registration/exhibit, and galas — and know which room carries the heaviest production
   • ·Navigate the convention-center world: the in-house/preferred AV provider, IATSE corporate-AV CBA labor, and the broadcast/webcast fee that triggers when a session is recorded or streamed
   • ·Identify the IMAG-plus-webcast gotcha as the single most-forgotten corporate-AV bid line item and know what it adds
   • ·Trace the corporate client chain and the roles that run a called gen session
5. 05

   The Live-Event Landscape

   • ·Identify the durable planning value in a live-event landscape snapshot: venues, recurring windows, and production scale rather than perishable lineups
   • ·Recall the anchor Bay Area recurring festivals by venue, window, and production scale, including the distinct civic/free template
   • ·Map a tour tier (stadium / arena / residency / world-tour) to its rigging, power, crew, and load-in envelope before specs arrive
   • ·Reason about what drives cost across tour types — routing/freight vs. trucking-and-local-crew — and why recurring festivals are the steadiest demand
6. 06

   General Session Scope & Crew Scaling

   • ·Scope a general session from a thin brief by walking the component anatomy checklist to produce a hole-free scope sheet
   • ·Apply the three-layer crew-scaling model and recognize that crew scales with complexity and concurrency, not attendee headcount
   • ·Gap-check a vendor bid against the anatomy, flagging the most-forgotten lines (IMAG-plus-stream, rigging, event internet, broadcast fee)
   • ·Recognize venue-gating constraints (rigging/truss-up exclusivity) and defer exact crew counts and dollars to the plot and CBA rate card

The exam is drawn straight from these modules, with a passing bar and a verifiable credential. It tests the framework and the vocabulary — exact union wages, fringes, and penalties always come from the governing collective bargaining agreement, never a figure memorized for a test.