This week you are going to prepare documents for your promptbook.
Contents
Part 1 forms
- Prop list production and rehearsal
- Fact sheet
- Audition check list
- Audition information form
- Production calendar
- Actor calendar
Part 2 preparing your calendars
Your job is to take the information from the calendar created by the Producers and break it down into manageable information for your production team and actors.
Actor vs production
What the designers need to know
- All production areas
- Production meetings
- Design meetings
- Production deadlines
- Budget deadlines
- Run through during the rehearsal periods
- Paper tech
- Build start and end
- Load in
- Tech
- Run throughs’
- Dress rehearsals
- Previews
- Opening
- run
What the actors need to know
- Read through
- Rehearsals act and scene for each date
- Measurements
- Fittings
- Off book
- Full run through in rehearsal hall
- Tech
- Full run through on stage
- Dress
- previews
- Performance
- Call times
Tech planning
The following video is a closer look at tech planning. If you have never worked behind the scenes on a production this video takes a closed look at the technical planning portion of the process.
Assignments
Go back to Brightspace, Quiz tab, do your quiz and reflection.
Please turn in this weeks homework in the assignments tab. Turn in documents as word, excel or pdf.
The production calendar created for this assignment and the templates for you to use are on the forms tab on openlab.
Reminder the production calendar is focused on design deadlines, budget deadlines, paper tech, tech and performances for designers and the production team.
The Actor calendar is focused on the actors: auditions, costume fittings, rehearsals, off book, tech and performances.
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