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Uploaded Forms / Re: Line Notes (for going "off book")
« on: Oct 08, 2007, 05:07 pm »
Well, forms and all are good. But I just did Comedy of Errors and I never had time to be shifting through 20 pieces of paper to look for each actor's page.
Rather than making it my job to make sure they knew what line each actor missed, we kind of put it in their hands. We made a copy of the script and put it into transparent pages. Each night I would follow along with that book and highlight a line missed or fuddled with a dry-erase marker (different color for each night of the week).
At the end of the week I would erase the book and start fresh. In this manner it was up to the actors to take some of their down time between scenes to check the book for their lines. We found it worked really well, after they had checked the book they would erase it so that we were sure they had gotten their notes.
Rather than making it my job to make sure they knew what line each actor missed, we kind of put it in their hands. We made a copy of the script and put it into transparent pages. Each night I would follow along with that book and highlight a line missed or fuddled with a dry-erase marker (different color for each night of the week).
At the end of the week I would erase the book and start fresh. In this manner it was up to the actors to take some of their down time between scenes to check the book for their lines. We found it worked really well, after they had checked the book they would erase it so that we were sure they had gotten their notes.