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FEMontesa

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Re: Your Prompt Book - Left or Right?
« Reply #90 on: Apr 09, 2009, 11:27 am »
Personal preferance is that since I'm right handed, I write my blocking on the right and follow text with my left.  But I print the text with a wide left margin for text for writing Q's.  It's a little tricky with the rings but tech is a short.  Calling from a messy book is a forever I don't want to live in.  The worst books I've see is when blocking and Q's are on the same page, left or right.  It's just messy.
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Re: Your Prompt Book - Left or Right?
« Reply #91 on: Apr 09, 2009, 02:20 pm »
All the SMs I work with put blocking on the left and Qs on the right, with the text on the right hand page.  The interesting thing is our TD teaches a basic production class that has a Prompt Script project-and he teaches them blocking on the left & Qs on the right, in a narrow margin near the text.  He's also a lighting designer, so he needs extra space for description of Q's but only basic blocking diagrams.  Any of my friends who have taken that class see my book and wonder why its 'backwards'. 
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Re: Your Prompt Book - Left or Right?
« Reply #92 on: Apr 10, 2009, 12:43 am »
I'm a hardcore lefty, but with most everyone else i keep 2 scripts one for blocking and one for calling. the blocking script i keep with most notes on the right side of the page, but i mainly work off the GP printed on the back side in reference to the script. when it comes to the calling script however i reverse bind it (hole punches on the right side of the page) and all cues are placed on the left edge. the book turns backwards but i have found it the most comfortable.
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