wow. that sounds a little complicated...
Yeah, the good news is that there's not much more (if any) complexity hiding. The other roles don't add anymore pages to the site, they just update them. There's an American proverb (ripped off from someone else, the Chinese according to the proverb) that a thousand-mile journey begins with a single step. And then continues with another step.
So, redactors just start with Ch 1 and go to the end. Actors act one segment at a time. The system is (if I do it right) set up so that everything that needs to be done is on someone's to-do list. And managers' main job is to watch out for things falling through the cracks--and there's computer assistance for that too.
The trick is to keep individual tasks short (a single chapter of narration might actually be a bit long, about half an hour to read), so that the only complexity that people have to deal with is short-term.
I cant find where you linked chapters 1-3 of MM1 so you might have covered this. When it shows the actor their lines, will it show just their lines, or the entire seen, I would say the whole scene would be better so that they can read the line in context in case they don't remember what the scene and the emotion was for that one.
Neither. It shows all of the lines, with // marks showing where the 'said's were removed. It also shows a fairly sparse summary of the narration. Oddly enough, most of the narration is about getting inside the narrating character's own head and less about what's happening in the open, so it's OK for it to be sparse. I would definitely encourage actors to read the entirety of the scene first, including narration in order to divine the emotion.
Now that you mention it, you know what? It's not hard at all for the redactors to produce an additional clean "just what's on the page" copy if actors prefer, because, honestly, it comes down to whatever works best for each individual actor.
Mirienne, thanks for the link assist.
Do you have experience as a moderator, webmaster, or sysop (especially on a Drupal site or wiki)? This isn't strictly necessary to be a manager (you'll pick it up fast, anyway), but would be helpful. Managers and redactors have to change the site structure much more than the other roles, hence more permissions, hence a higher (but still small, assuming I set it up right) risk of causing an oh-darn-but-at-least-we-have-backups.
Anyway, I'm exhausted. I'll look this post through and edit if appropriate tomorrow.
