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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: PROMPT BOOK: Your Prompt Book - Left or Right?
« on: Mar 25, 2019, 03:29 pm »
I've tried both sides, I've tried creating my own script with a diagram in the margins or at the top. I eventually figured out a format I prefer which is to place a lined/boxed blank sheet in between the script pages (attached). I use the boxes to draw any fast paced moment "pictures" and then write in blocking on the lines. Those lines and boxes correspond to a number I write beside wherever that movement or picture takes place.
Each of those added pages, I have numbered to correspond with the script page numbers in the top right hand, but when I get into adding cues in my script and I'm comfortable enough with the blocking, I pull out the blocking pages and place them behind the script. If I need to refer to the blocking because someone else is stepping into the role, I do have to put them back in in order to walk them through the blocking, but otherwise it gives me a clean script to put my cues in and only have to worry about those cues without the clutter of blocking notation. The only thing that remains on the script itself is the corresponding numbers hand circled.
I just find it's cleaner and I don't have to erase entire lines of blocking when that movement moves later or before where I had it. I only have to erase and place the number in the new location on that page.
Since I place these separate pages in between the two sided script pages, left or right depends on what page I'm on.
Each of those added pages, I have numbered to correspond with the script page numbers in the top right hand, but when I get into adding cues in my script and I'm comfortable enough with the blocking, I pull out the blocking pages and place them behind the script. If I need to refer to the blocking because someone else is stepping into the role, I do have to put them back in in order to walk them through the blocking, but otherwise it gives me a clean script to put my cues in and only have to worry about those cues without the clutter of blocking notation. The only thing that remains on the script itself is the corresponding numbers hand circled.
I just find it's cleaner and I don't have to erase entire lines of blocking when that movement moves later or before where I had it. I only have to erase and place the number in the new location on that page.
Since I place these separate pages in between the two sided script pages, left or right depends on what page I'm on.