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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Making my Rehearsal book
« on: Jan 13, 2018, 08:35 am »
After trial and error, I now don't keep my 'in-use' paperwork in my script folder at all. Once we're into the run I keep copies of running paperwork (fly plot, lx cue list, ASM plots) etc in the book, but during rehearsal I keep everything in a display book folder like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premium-Quality-Pocket-Display-Folder/dp/B002LFL006.
I've found it's much easier to have everything in plastic pockets that you can put flat on the desk and discuss with the director or whoever, and I'm not flipping back and forth in the script folder, losing my place in the scene. I buy them in bright neon colours so they're less easy to mislay.
As for order, set it up how you think, then change it when you realise you keep looking for something in a place where it is not, and so it needs to be put there!
I've found it's much easier to have everything in plastic pockets that you can put flat on the desk and discuss with the director or whoever, and I'm not flipping back and forth in the script folder, losing my place in the scene. I buy them in bright neon colours so they're less easy to mislay.
As for order, set it up how you think, then change it when you realise you keep looking for something in a place where it is not, and so it needs to be put there!