Glad to see I am not the only one with actor woes. Another problem with not fixing it is I get questioned when I don't fix something, could you have done this or that, could you have speed that fade up, etc. Its not actors that question, its the director or SM's in my case. So I just fix things as the night goes on, that way I don't have to answer 500 what if questions at the end of the night. I write everything that went wrong on a note pad each night. I then present it to the powers that be at the end of the night, or see the actor/s in question before the next show if its nothing to major. But I defiantly feel your pain charcoaldabs. Just hang in there and kept preserving, when you get to college, you have more freedom and are able to fix things then.
Icewolf, I am by no means talking about removing cues for any reason. Unless something major happens, like a mover goes down, I don't adjust the cues, just the timing. I had a mover go down twice before, and it isn't fun looking at all the cues ahead and trying to cover for a mover. I am talking about timing changing and actors who aren't on spike. During Ragtime, I had a few who hit there spike every night and didn't worry about it, others, like in charcoaldabs case, NEVER did. Still others hit it some times and other times did not. But when you have nothing but a pin spot mover on an actor, speaking, singing, whatever, and they don't land where they need to be, you can bet I moved it. Otherwise they wouldn't have been in the light, and that would have looked very bad on me.
Icewolf, I am by no means talking about removing cues for any reason. Unless something major happens, like a mover goes down, I don't adjust the cues, just the timing. I had a mover go down twice before, and it isn't fun looking at all the cues ahead and trying to cover for a mover. I am talking about timing changing and actors who aren't on spike. During Ragtime, I had a few who hit there spike every night and didn't worry about it, others, like in charcoaldabs case, NEVER did. Still others hit it some times and other times did not. But when you have nothing but a pin spot mover on an actor, speaking, singing, whatever, and they don't land where they need to be, you can bet I moved it. Otherwise they wouldn't have been in the light, and that would have looked very bad on me.