Annotating the Script | Development ~ SP

Before rehearsals officially started, I annotated the script by hand and scanned the pages in. I then added them to a word document and put that on the google drive for people to see and print out. Previously I had written notes of potential shot types, on the scripts, but now I had to set them out in a professional manner.
Here are a few of the scripts before the last script that we used in the actual show.

^1st Script - Storyboarding & List of Shot Types ^  ^3rd Script - Shot Types and Camera Numbers^

^4th Script - Shot Numbers, Shot Types and Camera Numbers and where the cuts are in the dialogue^

^1st Rehearsal Script - Colour coded with all of the different cues in it. A few extra notes for myself.^

^2nd Rehearsal Script - Only colour coded for my script, everyone else's is black, more notes.^

^3rd & more Rehearsal Script - The same as the previous one, but it's not hand drawn.^

On the main script, the one that everyone should have, there are the shot numbers, the camera number and the shot they should be on. By having this information on the script, everyone can see how the show will look, but also it makes it easier for myself to call out the shot no. we will be starting rehearsals from.
During rehearsals some of the cameras have been on different shots that work for the show, so from my memory I have changed the cameras and shots, and made sure the script is the same as our rehearsals.
For the last script, Nisserin showed me how I could annotate the script on the computer. I had previously tried on word but it wasn't working very well, hence why I had been hand writing them. However, I was able to annotate them on a PDF file and it worked really well. This made annotating the script a lot easier and less time consuming. It also meant that the file wasn't really big so everyone could print it off without any problems.

After our next rehearsal I will be adjusting the script and adding any new shots we might add, and then that should be the final script that everyone will be using for the live show.

I still colour code my scripts as I find it a lot easier to quickly glance at the script and know what comes up next. I usually look at the wall of monitors when in the gallery, especially during the rounds, and I try not to base the shoots too much from the script. However, having a script does make things a lot more organised and I can note down what I need to cue and when.