Blocking
A digital ground plan and a beat-by-beat record of the staging, kept live for the whole company.
Pencil notation, without the pencil
The blocking tool is a digital ground plan plus a beat-by-beat record of where everyone stands. Instead of hieroglyphics in the margin of a prompt book, each beat stores real positions on a calibrated stage: performer tokens, set pieces, and movement arrows you can replay in order. When the director changes a cross on Tuesday, the whole company sees the new picture on Wednesday, and nobody is squinting at an eraser smudge.
Who can edit, who can view
Everyone on a production can open the Blocking tab and step through beats. Editing, which covers stage setup, placing performers, capturing beats, arrows, and notes, is limited to admins, producers, directors, choreographers, creative team members, and stage managers. Cast and crew get a live, view-only copy, including on their phones. See roles and permissions for the full breakdown.
What you need before you start
Two things make blocking sing: cast assigned on the cast and crew board, since performer tokens pull names and characters from there, and a ground plan PDF uploaded to the production's documents. Neither is strictly required. Proscene will happily give you a blank stage and a seeded first scene and beat so you can start dragging right away.