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PROMPT BOOK: Your Prompt Book - Left or Right?
jspeaker:
I'm with Ruth.
I have always done a seperate call script. Particularly if its a musical because I do not take blocking notes in the score but I ALWAYS call the show from the score.
I have my text on the right and my minis on the left. Its just easier for me to follow the lines and the blocking at the same time if its all on the same page. I've tried it other ways but they just dont work for me.
Thats the main thing... What works for you??
hbelden:
I've been on a mission to cut down on the time I spend working outside of rehearsal - that's a main reason I keep the text on the right and the blocking on the left. I want to use the same script the rest of the company has, so that when we're running off twelve copies of the new scene 5A, I don't need to say either to myself or an ASM "oh, and three-hole punch one of them on the right side instead, and reverse the page order". I'll even work with a double-sided script or score if I have to.
ORTaurean:
I'm with Heath on this one. Easier for all concerned. I am left handed and have tried both ways. I do find it easier to write my blocking on the left had side for my calling script. I also add a arger margin in my calling script to the far right so I can easily see my cues.
MatthewShiner:
I do have my script on the left, and take blocking on the right.
I keep it the same way for the calling script, and my reason is that is how we read the cue . . .
for example
LX 16 ----------------------To be or (NOT) to be
You read LX 16 and thn your eye keeps tracking and you call the "GO" on NOT.
I just think for ease of eye tracking this works more natural for reading, as opposed to.
To be or (NOT) to be -------------------- LX 16
Your eye has to dart to the cue number read that, and then dart back to the cue word.
That is my rational in putting the cues on the left side of the script page on the left side of the binder.
But, I have been doing it that way for almost 15 years now, so now, it is the only way that "feels right". You have to find what works for you.
(And, given the arguement that if someone has to call off it, it's difficult . . . I have found when passing off the show, it is no more difficult then the script laid out the other way.)
Mac Calder:
Since I have my script in the right hand column of the right hand page and my cues in the left hand column of the right hand page I don't get what you mean. The way the blocking and script relate have nothing to do with how the cues are placed on the page... that is another matter entirely.
--- Code: ---
Script/cues on right blocking on left
+-------------++--------------+
| (1) a x dsl | | LX1__ asdad |
| (2) b x usl | | SD1 ffdsff|
| (3) a x dsc | | asdas |
+-------------++--------------+
Script/cues on left blocking on right
+-------------++--------------+
| LX1__asdad | | (1) a x dsl |
| SD1 ffdsff | | (2) b x usl |
| asdas | | (3) a x dsc |
+-------------++--------------+
--- End code ---
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