Theatrical Writes: I’ve hit that age where frightening stuff like, “When I was a kid we just had to make plans and stick to them. No fancy SMS’n for us! And we liked it,” starts coming out of my brain and then mouth and generally bumming out my kid. Never mind that I’ve become a texting machine, am constantly online and embrace any new tech gadget that promises to make my life easier.
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Some of these tools, especially the apps, are really amazing and would be incredibly useful. I'd love to try the app that helps with line memorization. I've had to memorize lines only a few limes, but it's always difficult and I always wish there was some way to do it other than reading and writing them over and over ag
Here's an instance where technology can help you be more creative and productive. I love the line-memorizing app because I think it would be really useful. Personally, I don't find it annoying when actors want to run lines with me, but I digress. I think it's a great invention. Also, the pen with a light on it is something I've been using for years. I invested in a few of them a while back, and I guess a few have sprouted legs and walked off with various directors and people I've lent them too. Oh well. All in all, this is a great list, and everyone should take note of it.
I really think some of these options are great and could benefit productions. The rehearsal app sounds great because when a show is heavily tied to music or other audio, making changes, re-running moments, and other rehearsal related tasks can become very complicated if you only have QLab or iTunes. The line learning app could be very useful because, as the article points out, helping to read lines can get tedious. I am curious how the sound cueing app relates to QLab functionality wise. The pen sounds really useful! A clip light can get annoying but the pen would be a nice two in one.
The two apps in this list that interest me are the line learning app and the cue playing app. I'm interested in seeing what techniques the app uses and what exactly it does to help you learn lines. Depending on what the app does I might look into using it to read plays. The Gobutton app looks very useful I just wonder how it connects to your sound system if you are supposed to be able to carry it around.
It's great the way that theatre is using more and more technology, and it's cool to see that these advances don't just show up in media and lighting systems, but backstage and during rehearsals to create a more productive environment. It's great that directors and stage managers are now utilizing these new tools in their line of work.
I wish I knew about these apps while I was SM/PM at my highschool. I can barely imagine how much time and frustration my director & I would have been saved if we knew about the line learning apps. Same for the digital perusal, we had a lot of negotiating to make sure we weren't charged for the paper versions... I can definitely see these apps and others like them becoming standard very soon for learning lines, running rehearsals, etc...
Wow. A line learning app. I've never heard of that and definitely would be interested in trying it. I think it's important to recognize that technology can be so helpful in theatre, and choosing to ignore it and work without it is both selfish and arrogant. With tools like these available to us, we can enhance theatre-even in its most simplistic forms. Also pen lights are great. I highly support the pen light.
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