Thanks for this. Great refresher! I did a degree in stage management and tech production over 20 years ago. I’ve been teaching media and computer science the last 20 years, but have stepped back into shows with a school production. Great to see what I was taught 20 + years ago hasn’t changed. Very good video describing what took a long time to learn. Thank you
Thank you for making these! I’m stage managing for the first time at my college and it’s a 13 person cast with like 12 people moving all around the stage at one time and yesterday was a nightmare as someone who is writing blocking notation for the first time
I happen to know someone who is going to require his students listen to your videos when they are assigned various roles in tech crews. This blocking system is so fine.
This has been extremely helpful. As a performer I just memorized my entrances and held blocking in my body. Now that I'm an SM that totally doesn't fly. Thank you so much.
Hi CP! I have English subtitles as the default, but sometimes UA-cam doesn’t like to participate or takes a while to process. I’ll check on this when I get to a computer! Thanks!
Waving through a window is a good example for a question I have: would you write down the individual paths each ensemble member takes to get from the circle to the horizontal formation and back into the circle and if you do: how would you do it? I can imagine it might be important information for the ensemble if the director sets those paths like „Heidi, cross behind Connor or else you’ll bump into jared“ for example. But I can see myself trying to draw that and ending up with multiple lines and arrows that you can’t really follow anymore. Any tips on that matter?
This is a great question! My gut is that it would be on the dance captain to notate that level of detail. But, if you're responsible for this, I'd go with mini ground plans and add arrows to indicate the path to/from a new formation, which is much closer to choreography notation than blocking notation.
Hey Ray, thanks for watching. Since it requires a ground plan for your specific show, it wouldn’t be very useful to have an example. They’re very easy to make! I recommend PowerPoint.
This is part two! Check out part one first: ua-cam.com/video/7xOuqCJNevU/v-deo.html
Thanks for this. Great refresher! I did a degree in stage management and tech production over 20 years ago. I’ve been teaching media and computer science the last 20 years, but have stepped back into shows with a school production. Great to see what I was taught 20 + years ago hasn’t changed. Very good video describing what took a long time to learn. Thank you
Thank you for making these! I’m stage managing for the first time at my college and it’s a 13 person cast with like 12 people moving all around the stage at one time and yesterday was a nightmare as someone who is writing blocking notation for the first time
I happen to know someone who is going to require his students listen to your videos when they are assigned various roles in tech crews. This blocking system is so fine.
Thank you!! It's so great to know these videos are helpful resources!
This has been extremely helpful. As a performer I just memorized my entrances and held blocking in my body. Now that I'm an SM that totally doesn't fly. Thank you so much.
Super informative video for this novice. Seeing it in real time was impressive. I also apreciated the clarity of the notations. Mahalo nui!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this example! I'm sorry if I missed it, but why do you use 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. in the script?
Great question! It’s so when (inevitably) something changes I have plenty of numbers to add in after the fact before going to 5.1, etc.
This is super helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Could you please turn on the subtitles? As a non-native English speaker that would be super helpful!
Hi CP! I have English subtitles as the default, but sometimes UA-cam doesn’t like to participate or takes a while to process. I’ll check on this when I get to a computer! Thanks!
Waving through a window is a good example for a question I have: would you write down the individual paths each ensemble member takes to get from the circle to the horizontal formation and back into the circle and if you do: how would you do it? I can imagine it might be important information for the ensemble if the director sets those paths like „Heidi, cross behind Connor or else you’ll bump into jared“ for example. But I can see myself trying to draw that and ending up with multiple lines and arrows that you can’t really follow anymore. Any tips on that matter?
This is a great question! My gut is that it would be on the dance captain to notate that level of detail. But, if you're responsible for this, I'd go with mini ground plans and add arrows to indicate the path to/from a new formation, which is much closer to choreography notation than blocking notation.
Very informative vid. Any chance you could post the template for your blocking slip sheet?
Hey Ray, thanks for watching. Since it requires a ground plan for your specific show, it wouldn’t be very useful to have an example. They’re very easy to make! I recommend PowerPoint.
I'm never going to get over the pen....just saying :).