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    Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:07pm
Not sure if I'm asking for the right thing, so please bear with me.  I'm not actually looking for anybody to supply me with FX, but does anyone know of a source for Cue lists?

When I work on a show, I typically sit down with a higlighter and a script and spend several days gogin over the script to find every thing that I think should be handled by the sound booth.  Once I'm satisfied, I sit down and type them all up into a spreadsheet, with act/scene, page#, in cue, out cue.

Then I pull, mix and create my sounds, and enter things like Track title, duration, volume, source etc...

After tech rehersal, I massage the cues to fit the director's needs and notes, add "Special notes" where needed (like, actor always misses this cue, be on your toes...)

I'd love to find a source for getting cue lists for shows, so I didnt' have to do it ALL from scratch.  It is a community theater, and I put a lot of work into it, but my time is limited and a source for the "standard cues as written in the script" would be a god-send...

I'm only looking for the traditional, script written cues, because of course, I like to find things that I can add that lend to the ambience of a scene based upon the settings, or because the director asked me for something.

Example: one show - the set was supposed ot be near a train station, and a cast member remarked that they never heard a train... so I added one or two in the distant background, director and I played with the levels so that they did not interfere with the dialogue and I actually got some feedback from friends in the audience that it was cool.

Those sorts of things I'll still have to do by hand, but I woldn't have to spend 3+ hrs doing the standard ones...
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bullet Posted: 4/17/06 at 11:03am
Do you mean sound cue sheets?  Blank ones or cue sheets done for certain plays?

That would be wonderful - to have a pool of cue sheets for individual plays.  Of course, each director would want something different, most likely.

I'm on the look-out for a SFX CD that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (under $20) that has some standard SFX (telephone ringing, etc.) so I don't have to download from the internet every time I need a sound. 
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bullet Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:25am
You can find sound effects CDs at Sam Goody's.  I've bought several of them.  They have hundreds of sounds on a single CD.  They aren't too bad really.
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bullet Posted: 4/18/06 at 10:55am

Suddenly I have an idea what to do with my old sound cue sheets.  Hmm, maybe someone should collect them and put them in a standardized format.  Too bad I'm too busy doing sound. 

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bullet Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:37pm
Be sure to check the scripts for a sound plot.  Along with the basic stage diagrams that are often provided in the front or back, many also include a sound plot with the required built in sound cues.
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