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Blocking Software
« on: Mar 31, 2009, 12:29 am »
I was wondering if anyone has any advice about taking blocking notation digitally. I've heard rumors of a word plug-in, but I was hoping for some input.

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Re: Blocking Software
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2009, 05:14 pm »
I've heard of people using the comment feature in Microsoft Word to do blocking and/or cues.

Also - if you have Microsoft One-Note, it enables you to write directly over a word document.  Though if you're doing it in your own handwriting, I suppose that would kind of defeat the purpose of digitizing it.

I played around with a few ways of doing this when I was SMing but never found anything that saved me any time, it just created loads more work in formatting and editing. 

Have you found any methods that work well?
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Re: Blocking Software
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2009, 09:47 pm »
For broad scene compositions (not what you're really asking, I realize) I use OmniGraffle. It worked quite well for getting the dance and scene compositions set for Pippin I did earlier this year. They are posted on my web site at at http://www.michaelclark.net/2009/05/pippin-at-prince-william-little-theatre/ under "Section V. Scene Compositions."