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Author Topic: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots  (Read 8329 times)

Tom Hester

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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2014, 02:22:28 AM »

A poorly made, accurate stage plot is much better than a perfectly made and annotated wrong stage plot.  I've had MANY more of the latter...


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I am about 8 festivals in this summer so far, I just started working for the band. I noticed booking has been sending out the 2011 rider which is nothing like the most current. So during my advance I have in bold red font Please note the updated rider/plot/input And during my follow-up call I ask what the date is on the rider they are referencing while we are discussing. Its amazing when I show up to the festival with my printed out plot that matches what I sent them does not match the 2011 version they printed out anyways and set up for. Its not always the BEs fault :)
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Steve M Smith

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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2014, 02:27:12 AM »

What's a "stage plot"??

A rarity in the same league as a sound check.


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David Morison

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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2014, 08:10:59 AM »

A rarity in the same league as a sound check.


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Which is hopefully a lot more common than an unsound cheque   ;)
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Steve M Smith

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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2014, 09:35:11 AM »

Which is hopefully a lot more common than an unsound cheque   ;)

Makes even more sense when you use the American (wrong) spelling of cheque!


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Thomas Harkin

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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2014, 10:19:48 AM »

Makes even more sense when you use the American (wrong) spelling of cheque!


Steve.
And THAT, cheque, comes from when the Normans (French) ruled England!   ::)
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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2014, 01:13:22 PM »

Yes, it's from exchequer - A chequered (or checkered) black and white cloth similar to a chess board was used for monetary calculations.  From the French échiquier for chess board.


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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2014, 01:26:53 PM »

What's the arrow for? the direction the stage should fall if it should fail?

This is too funny!
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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2014, 11:06:12 PM »

This little iOS app called Napkin Sketch Stage isn't too bad for helping to create stage plots on the go:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/napkin-sketch-stage/id492744966?ls=1&mt=8

Has the annoying in-app purchases but you can get most things you need with this and it exports to PDF and will email...

How do you make good looking stage plots?
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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2014, 04:49:04 AM »

How do you make good looking stage plots?

For those of the Mac persuasion: OmniGraffle! In fact, I use it for pretty much any not to scale diagram (read: not AutoCAD). Its very quick, very powerful, and lets you create 'stencils' which are blocks that you save for re-use. So once you've made a few stencils that fit your applications, and a nice template file, you can normally knock out a plot in a few minutes.
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Re: Friendly Reminder. Proper Stage Plots
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2014, 12:32:09 PM »

How do you make good looking stage plots?
I prefer stage plots without all of the cartoon stuff. Colored blocks with input numbers. The simpler the better. Here is an example of the plots I make when I get the luxury of getting all of the information I need. I just use MS Word.

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