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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: PROMPT SCRIPT: Assistant Stage Manager Paperwork
« on: Aug 13, 2015, 09:14 am »
I often ask ASMs to track some blocking, minimum entrances and exits. The reason being that I find it frustrating when ASMs who have been in rehearsals have no sense of what's happening onstage. (I have seen this happen too many times).
I keep my own set of blocking notes, but blocking ties in with props tracking and costumes tracking- if you haven't written any blocking down, then you likely don't know when/how an actor interacts with a prop. Entrances/exits are a big part of costume changes, so at minimum, I like the ASM tracking costumes to have those.
I'm always fine with ASMs double checking any questions they have about entrances and exits or any other blocking against my blocking notes. What I'm not okay with is having an ASM who is tracking costumes (for instance) on a not-very-costume-heavy show, sitting in the rehearsal room taking no notes, and then later having to ask what the blocking is to make their paperwork.
I keep my own set of blocking notes, but blocking ties in with props tracking and costumes tracking- if you haven't written any blocking down, then you likely don't know when/how an actor interacts with a prop. Entrances/exits are a big part of costume changes, so at minimum, I like the ASM tracking costumes to have those.
I'm always fine with ASMs double checking any questions they have about entrances and exits or any other blocking against my blocking notes. What I'm not okay with is having an ASM who is tracking costumes (for instance) on a not-very-costume-heavy show, sitting in the rehearsal room taking no notes, and then later having to ask what the blocking is to make their paperwork.