[SML] What is your favorite cue number method?

[Jacob Blumberg]

I like to switch up my Que lists depending on what show I am doing. We have
one show that is a bunch of one act plays, so I’ll give each show a block
of 100 cues. (I.e show one is cues  100-199, show two is cues 200-299
....). I do this because I know there won’t be more than 100 ques for a one
act play. However, for just normal shows I go by ones and if stuff needs to
be added in I just give it a point value. However, this tread just got me
thinking that I could program effects that run without user input all as
decimals so that the stage manager knows that they don’t need to call
those.

The long of the short of this is there is no right way to program ques as
long as the stage manger knows what’s up. However, try to avoid decimals on
ques that need to be called out like the plague because stage managers hate
it, and it tends to slow things down in the booth during a show.

Jacob

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 18:20 Brian Munroe via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> All cues begin with the page number they are located on multiplied by 100.
>
> Then your SM is calling cue 5007? Seems like a mouthful.
>
> Sent from my iThingy. Please excuse any typos
>
> On Feb 25, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Bruce via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, February 25, 2018 3:14:52 PM CST, Edward Hunter via Stagecraft
> wrote:
>
> I've recently been ruminating on different systems for choosing cue
> numbers for light cues (thus proving I probably have too much free time on
> my hands).
>
>
>
> What are other methods people like?
>
>
> One method that I ran across that made me go 'duh, why didn't I think of
> that?' is this:
>
> -  All cues begin with the page number they are located on multiplied by
> 100.
> -  Each cue on a page is added to this.  Sequentially or skipping 5s/10s
>
> - So for example during the first number which begins on page 7 and ends
> on page 8, the light cues are 701 thru 833.
>
> It does require that you know roughly what page number things are located
> on at the start [not usually a problem], but it instantly eliminates any
> searching for cue numbers by both stage manager, operator, and designer.
> Leaves lots of room for 'I forgot that' or 'we need to add this'
>
> Just a thought.
>
> :Bruce Cooper
> --
> Itinerant Stagehand anc Creature Mechanic
>
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