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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Projections...how do you call it?

« on: Sep 29, 2011, 10:00 am »

Another UK based one here, so will be a bit different, but my cues are usually called as:

Lx - lighting
Sound
AV - Projection/video
Fly - Flies
Tab - House curtains
Stage - deck cues.
Spot - Follow spots in the rare event I'm calling them.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: iPad: What do you think?

« on: Apr 04, 2010, 01:00 pm »

I have to say I was quite disappointed by what the iPad was revealed to be. Had it been effectively a tablet MacBook, I'd have been first in the queue. Unfortunately, as a jumped up iPhone, I'm not that interested....I already have an iPhone, and I can't see that the iPad will do anything more useful, at least initially.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: TECHNOLOGY: Smart phones

« on: Apr 03, 2010, 07:34 pm »

Another iPhone user here!

Docs to Go is a great app for paperwork on the fly - and the iPhones native notes app is pretty good for quick notes as well. I also have a couple of SM specific apps, one called 'Showtimer,' which is basically a stopwatch and countdown timer in one that can count you down from the Half to the show, then time the show, putting auto labels (eg end of act 1) in a log that you can save. The other app I have is called 'ShowTool SM,' which is a props list and pre-show check sheet on the phone, and also incorporates a timer.

One thing I have discovered very rapidly about all this though, is brilliant though these apps are, there's no substitute for a paper pad and pencil at times!