Department notes in rehearsal reports
Every rehearsal report in Proscene is organized by department, so the props note reaches props and the costume note reaches the shop. Here is where those sections come from and how to shape them for your show.
Report sections come from your production's departments
Each production keeps its own department list, and the report form, the report page, and the emailed report all build their sections from it. One department equals one note card on the form and one labeled section in the finished report. If a production has no department list on file, Proscene shows the full standard set of 12, so reports always have somewhere to put a note.
The 12 standard departments
Proscene ships with a standard catalog that covers most shows:
- Scenery / Set
- Props
- Costumes
- Hair & Makeup
- Lighting
- Sound
- Sound Effects
- Music
- Choreography
- Video / Projection
- Crew
- Other
Use as many or as few as your production needs; a straight play with no projections does not have to carry a Video section.
Custom departments
You can add departments beyond the standard 12, for example Intimacy / Fight or Dramaturgy. A custom department behaves exactly like a standard one: it gets a note card on the report form, its own section in the distributed report and email, and a team bucket on the Cast & Crew board.
Managing the list
Open your production's Settings tab and find the Departments panel. From there you can add departments from the standard catalog, add a custom one, remove departments the show does not use, and save. The setup wizard seeds this list when the production is created, so most shows only come back here when something changes.
Notes route to the right team, and history is safe
Because each department renders as its own labeled section in the report and in the distributed email, everyone can jump straight to their notes. Departments with nothing filed simply read as having no notes. And the history is safe: removing a department from a production later does not erase notes already saved on past reports; old reports keep rendering exactly as they were filed.