Weeks later...

 Well well well... my blog has been missing posts due to hectic work with rehearsing and performing at least 5 radio dramas in my case.

I set up a meeting in the Baxter Theatre TV-unit with Allan to see the premises and that gave me a very good idea of what space we had available for our radio dramas. I later found out that space as in normal terms is not the most essential thing in audio drama, it is more important to have the right equipment like microphones and so on.

Monday the 5th of may I did my individual script and I was the first off, and it went good. I am very happy that my crew did such a good job everything flowed nicely. It was great to see my piece unfold and see the how everything worked together. My script was very simple but I think this was not a bad thing, because it was delivered smooth and quickly. I got really good response on my audio drama as well, especially people liked my foley and the flow og lines.

Collective script

As technical director I want to produce a special script for all the technical stuff. I have been in conversation with Brother Sloan about how these things are done in audio drama. He advised me to look up "The book" under the aspect of theatre or "prompt book". This book contains absolutely all the important notes on when to "trigger" all the technical stuff.

As stated on the website: http://www.hstech.org/prodteam/stage.htm (09/05/08)

"The main job of a stage manager is to create a "prompt book". A prompt book is a copy of the script with notes on blocking, as well as light, sound, follow spot (spotlight), and deck cue's. A prompt book should be legible so that if the stage manager is unable to call the show, due to illness or other causes, his/her notes can be followed by anyone. Also as the prompt book is subject to frequent change during the process of creating blocking, only pencil should be used in writing notes."

On another website I found the following:

"Definition: The Prompt Book holds all the information about the performance. It contains the script with all the blocking and cues. The Stage Manager keeps "The Book" and uses it to call the show. The Prompt Book also contains contact information, lists of props, rehearsal notes, everything. A production can be recreated from the information in the Prompt Book."

http://theater.about.com/cs/glossary/g/bldef_prompt.htm (09 /05/08)

So the prompt book is really the holy bible og the theatre play, it not only contains the lines of the characters but also cues, lighting notes, sound information and even contact information and list of props!!! This is like the blue-prints of a building under construction, it has all the piping, all the window frames, all the measures and the materials included.  Better hold on to that one...

Well, if it is the stage managers job to create such wonderful "book" I should get in touch with our stagemanager Lunel to find out what we should do. If she already have produced a prompt book for "A16" I can base my "technical director script" upon that.

My mind is empty now, but I will return later with more radio drama thoughts...

Jonas