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As a review, with Linesets you record each of your lines, and each of your scene partners’ lines, individually (as opposed to the entire scene).

Review the previous lesson if you jumped to this one, so you know how Linesets are recorded and played back, as well as how each line is enabled or disabled for playback. Here’s the link to that help page:

https://help.rehearsal.pro/how-to-record-and-rehearse-with-linesets/

Your finished Linesets are then collections of individually recorded lines, both yours and your scene partners, and are individually played back, enabled, re-arrangeable, replaceable, and editable. To play back each enabled line in your Lineset as you work through the scene, you just tap anywhere on the screen to play the next line. Once that line plays, the next line is then immediately ready to play, again by tapping anywhere on your screen.

Now, let’s see how to use Linesets as your “reader” when doing a self-tape (note that you’ll need a camera or other device to record your scene, and whatever device you have Rehearsal® Pro on to play back the lines in your Lineset). Use the following process:

1. Record your Lineset for the scene you want to record, and use the Lineset to memorize your lines. Record both your lines and your scene partners’ lines for the memorization.
2. When you’re ready to do your self-tape, open the Lineset to reveal the list of your recorded lines by tapping on the Lineset’s name, and then disable each of your lines in the Lineset’s playback function by tapping on the check mark next to your lines. Leave your scene partners’ lines enabled. This will allow you to play back the scene, without playing back your lines.
3. Engage Do Not Disturb on your device, so you won’t be interrupted during your audition/work.
4. Lower the brightness level on your device, so you won’t be adding any additional light source to your video recording.
5. Place your device off-screen, where you can easily tap on the screen of the device as you shoot your scene.
6. Tap on the play button to the right of your Lineset’s name:

   

7. Shoot a couple of lines as a test. Adjust the playback volume on your device, so that it sounds as though your “reader” is not as close to the microphone as you are, mimicking the effect of being in a live casting office with the reader across the room from you.
8. Shoot your self-tape, tapping anywhere on the screen of your device to play the next line. Once that line is played, Rehearsal® Pro will pause and wait for you to tap it again for the next line.
9. Rehearsal® Pro will return to the first line once it plays the last line of the scene, so you can immediately record another take (if you want to).
10. Once you’re finished rehearsing with the Lineset, tap on the Stop button on the playback interface.

    

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Linesets is a way to record and learn your lines that is slightly different than recording all the lines in whole scenes. With Linesets, you say each of your lines, and each of your scene partners’ lines, individually (as opposed to the entire scene) and once recorded, you’ll play each line as you need it, tapping your device to play each line, automatically advancing to the next, to rehearse and learn your lines.

NOTE: this was an often requested feature. It has its pros (you don’t need to time your line when using this process) and cons (we’re not big fans of having to tap on your device while doing your scene, as it takes your attention slightly off the scene itself), but we want you to have choices.

Linesets are collections of individually recorded lines, both yours and your scene partners, and are individually played back, re-arrangeable, replaceable, and editable. To play back each line as you work through the scene, you just tap anywhere on the screen to play the next line. Once that line plays, the next line is then immediately ready to play, again by tapping anywhere on your screen. We’ll show you how to do all that below.

Here’s a video that shows you how to use linesets (then, below that is a step-by-step explanation):

So, with linesets, as with scene recording, once you’ve finished highlighting your lines and adding any other markup, you’ll then record each line, creating a Lineset, by recording them individually. You can make any number of linesets, for any number of scenes in your script. Those recorded linesets will then be stored in each script, and are created, edited and used by revealing the lineset interface. You do this by tapping on the red-circled (L) on the bottom toolbar in the app:

When you tap on that (L) icon, you’ll start the process by adding a lineset.

As you record more linesets, and as you add more scenes from more scripts, your lineset list in the script will grow accordingly.

NOTE: You don’t need to print out your script, or use a printout you already have, and record using that printout! You’ll see the script on your screen, and you’ll voice the recording AS YOU SCROLL THE SCRIPT ON THE SCREEN WITH YOUR FINGER. Rehearsal® Pro will record both your voice, and the movement of your finger on the screen, and will sync those up to play them back when you rehearse.

Before you begin, make sure your lines are already highlighted, and you’re zoomed in to the width of the dialogue. Also, make sure no tools are active, like the highlighter, the scribbler or the eraser.

Here’s how to use the lineset feature, step by step:

1. To create a new lineset, open the lineset interface by tapping on the red-circled (L). Then, tap on Add New Lineset:

Your first one will be called Lineset 1, but you can change that name later to something more useful, like Scene 4 Pg 12. Let’s use the default name for now. Here’s what your screen will look like:

2. Once you’ve created your lineset, you then record each line individually, To do this, tap on the Start Line Rec button:

You’ll hear three ADR beeps to allow you to get set. Once those sound off, you can start your recording. When you’re finished recording the line, tap the same button, which will now be seen as Stop Line Rec:

You can scroll the script as you need to to move through the lines. Repeat this line-by-line individual recording for all the lines in your scene.

As with full scene recording, you will want to say your lines with no performance effort at all. Just flat, but with the same pace you expect to use when you audition or perform the scene.

Say your scene partners’ lines with all the richness you expect once you do your performance (which can mean no richness at all, if you expect the flat, fast read of an audition reader).

3. As you record each line, you’ll notice both yellow and green arrows occasionally appearing. Those are to let you know when the app is saving your work to the cloud. They are yellow when they are getting ready to sync, and green when syncing. They disappear once the sync is complete:

When you’ve finished and have your lines in order, they will be listed under your lineset’s name and will be ready for playback. You can hide and show the lines themselves by tapping on the lineset’s name.

4. To play the lines back and rehearse the scene/lineset, first tap on the play button to the right of your lineset’s name:

When you do, you’ll now see the playback interface, and you’ll hear the ADR beeps to allow you to get ready to perform.

5. Note that the first line in the lineset could be your line, or it could be your scene partner’s. Because of that, unlike in full scene recordings, the first line won’t play directly after the ADR beeps. Instead, you see a blue button on the screen that says Tap anywhere to play the first line – when you’re ready, do that. You can tap anywhere on the script itself, but not on the title bar, or on the controls in the blue lineset playback interface at the bottom of your screen:

6. Once the line starts playing, and then finishes, the next line will be queued up, but now, you’ll see a large play button on your screen. You don’t have to tap directly on that, but you can tap on it or anywhere on the screen, and the next line will play. Then, the next line will be queued up, and so on:

If any line is your line, you’ll want to talk over it as you learn the lines. If it’s your scene partner’s line, you want to listen to that line.

7. Once you’ve played all the lines in the lineset, the lines will queue up again, beginning with the first line in the lineset. Go ahead and repeat the playback process until you’ve learned your lines.

8. if you go up on a line and want to hear it again, use the rewind button on the playback interface. You can then replay the line by tapping anywhere on the screen:

If you want to skip a line, use the fast-forward button on the playback interface. It will jump ahead and queue up the next line for you, and you’ll then tap anywhere on the screen to play it:

9. Once you’re finished rehearsing with the lineset, tap on the Stop button on the playback interface:

You’re returned to the lineset recording interface. If you want to leave the lineset feature entirely and go back to your script, just tap on the left-facing carat to the left of the Add New Lineset button:

10. Once you’ve done your recording, you might want to change the names of your lineset or your lines, or their order. To do that, tap on the Edit button to the right of the Start Line Rec button:

You will see a red deletion circle to the left of each item, you’ll see a Rename button, and you’ll see three-line handles you can grab to re-arrange the lines (and you’ll see the same controls for the lineset itself):

If you want to delete a line, or an entire lineset, just tap on the deletion circle next to its name, and confirm the deletion by tapping on the Delete button that appears to the right:

If you want to rename a line or a lineset, tap the Rename button for the item, then enter the new name you want. Tap OK, and your item will be renamed.

If you want to rearrange your lines, enter Edit mode, then tap and hold on the three-line handles to the right of any line you want to move, and drag the line to its new location. You can also rearrange linesets in the lineset list in the same fashion, if you have more than one lineset:

Enabling and disabling lines

Once you’ve rehearsed your lines with this recorded scene, to the point where you know the lines cold, you can disable just your lines and run the scene by only playing back your scene partner’s lines, and voicing your lines without any prompting from the app. Just tap on the speaker icon to the left of any of your lines in the lineset (you don’t need to go into Edit mode for this), and rehearse your scene without them.

Using Linesets when self-recording an audition

You can use the lineset feature to create a virtual “reader” for self-recorded home auditions.

When recording a lineset, change your voice a bit when recording your scene partner’s lines, so that you don’t sound exactly like yourself. You can record your lines as usual. Also, turn your head away from your device when to recording your scene partner’s lines so that your “reader” sounds off mic, but understandable.

Then, disable your lines so that only your scene partner’s lines will play. Have your device near you when you’re recording your audition, on a surface off-camera, and tap the screen when you want the next line “read”. Adjust the volume on the playback appropriately, so that it sounds like you have a reader across the room from you. We’ll go into a bit more detail in the next help screen.

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Sometimes you’re in a situation where you have to rehearse more than one scene for an appointment. One of the most common situations is an audition for a procedural, where you have the arrest scene, the interrogation scene and then the “we gotcha” scene.

It’s helpful to be able to rehearse the scenes individually, but also rehearse them as a group – just like what will happen in the audition itself.

This is also useful when you’re set to perform several scenes on set, and you know what those scenes are from the call sheet.

Rehearsal® Pro makes this a snap, because scenes can be grouped in a particular order, so that instead of playing back individually, you can play them back as that group, repeating the entire group rather than an individual scene.

Here’s a video that shows you how to group your scenes:

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When rehearsing a scene, especially a longer scene, a long and involved line or a monologue, you might want to do so in bite size chunks, rather than the whole scene at once. You can use Rehearsal® Pro’s adjustable timeline’s to play what you want, then add more and more until you’re rehearsing the entire length of the content.

Here’s a video that shows you the whole process (then a step-by-step below the video):

And here’s the step-by-step process:

1. To use the adjustable timeline when rehearsing any scene, select that scene in My Scenes. Once the scene loads, tap on the Play button at the very right of the bottom toolbar. You’ll hear three ADR beeps to allow you to get set, then your scene will begin.
2. Wait until you get to the point where you want your selection to end, then tap the Pause button to the right of the timeline.
3. Notice the two diamonds on either end of the timeline. Those are adjustable end points to indicate what portion of the full recording the playback will repeat. The left hand diamond is green (Start) and the right hand diamond is red (Stop).
4. Slide the Stop diamond to the left until it reaches your paused white playback button. As you slide it and it approaches the button, it will snap into place.
5. Now, if you tap the Play button, only the portion of the scene you’ve selected will play. And now, once Rehearsal® Pro finishes playing that portion, it will repeat only that portion.
6. Do this repeatedly until you are well versed in that portion of the line or lines, then adjust the timeline to include the next portion you want to add to what you’ve now memorized.
7. To add more content to what’s being repeated, first reset both diamonds by double tapping on the timeline. This sends the Start diamond to the beginning of the recording (if it isn’t there already) and the Stop diamond to the end of the recording.
8. Then, begin the playback at the very beginning of the recording, tapping the Pause button when you get to the new ending point.
9. Slide the Stop diamond to that new stopping point, and continue your rehearsal as before, with the new content added to what is being repeated for you.
10. Repeat this until you’ve rehearsed the entire scene you’ve wanted to memorize, and you’ve got the scene down.
11. When you’re finished, tap on the stop button at the very left of the bottom toolbar. This button is a stop button only while you’re playing back. It’s the record button when recording.

NOTE: You can also adjust the Start diamond, in case you want to rehearse a section of the scene that begins sometime after the very start, like the middle or last lines in a scene. You can always reset the adjustable timeline by double tapping anywhere on the timeline itself when the playback is stopped.

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Rehearsing a scene, learning your lines and discovering new ways to deliver them is the heart and soul of Rehearsal® Pro. You’ll play back the scene, then speak over your own lines and let the scene partners’ lines guide you through the scene. The playback will repeat automatically until you stop it, and the repetition will quickly get you off book.

To rehearse your scene, select the scene you want to use in your My Scenes area (not your My Scripts area):

That will load up your selected scene and display it, ready to play.

Here’s a video that shows you the whole process:

And here’s the step-by-step process:

• To rehearse any scene, select it in My Scenes. Once the scene loads, tap on the play button at the very right of the bottom toolbar. You’ll hear three ADR beeps to allow you to get set, then your scene will begin.

• You’ll notice both a timer, and a progress button that travels along the bottom of your screen. If you go up on a line and want to go back, just drag that progress button to the left. Likewise, if you want to jump to a later point in the script, just drag the button to the right.

• As you first listen to your scenes, you can watch the script scroll by, and say your lines as they come up. Don’t worry about your performance just yet – that will naturally flow into your work as you repeat the process.

• Let Rehearsal® Pro say your scene partners’ lines. You’ll begin to remember the ends of their lines as the aural cues for your lines.

• Once you get to the end of the scene, Rehearsal® Pro will immediately repeat the scene, with the ADB beeps giving you a few seconds to reset yourself emotionally, as you restart the scene.

• Do this repeatedly until you are well versed in the lines, and you’ve started to feel out the way you’re going to perform the scene.

• When you’re finished, tap on the stop button at the very left of the bottom toolbar. This button is a stop button only while you’re playing back. It’s the record button when recording.

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Recording a scene for rehearsal is the way you prepare to learn your lines. You say both your lines, and your scene partners’ lines, and once recorded, you’ll play the scene back over and over to rehearse, and learn your lines.

So, once you’ve finished highlighting your lines and adding any other markup, only then will you create your scene(s) by recording them. Those recorded scenes will then be stored in My Scenes, listed under each script you’ve got. Until you record your first scene, there will be no listing of scenes under My Scenes. As you record more scenes, and as you add more scenes from more scripts, your listings in My Scenes will grow accordingly.

NOTE: You don’t need to print out your script, or use a printout you already have, and record using that printout! You’ll see the script on your screen, and you’ll voice the recording AS YOU SCROLL THE SCRIPT ON THE SCREEN WITH YOUR FINGER. Rehearsal® Pro will record both your voice, and the movement of your finger on the screen, and will sync those up to play them back when you rehearse.

FURTHER NOTE: Set your device to Do Not Disturb (DND) mode before you start recording. If you get a notification during your recording session, it may or may not halt the recording (and no, you can’t pick up where you left off if it gets stopped). If you get a phone call, the recording will be stopped as well.

Here’s a video that shows you the whole process:

And here’s how to do it step by step:

1. To record your scene, first scroll to where your scene begins. Make sure your lines are already highlighted, and you’re zoomed in to the width of the dialogue. Also, make sure no tools are active, like the highlighter, the scribbler or the eraser.

2. To begin recording, tap on the record button at the very left of the bottom toolbar. You’ll hear three ADR beeps to allow you to get set.

Once those sound off, the audio meter will start moving and you can start your recording.

3. Scroll the script as you need to to move through the lines.

REPEAT: You don’t need to print out your script, or use a printout you already have, and record using that printout! You’ll see the script on your screen, and you’ll voice the recording AS YOU SCROLL THE SCRIPT ON THE SCREEN WITH YOUR FINGER. Rehearsal® Pro will record both your voice, and the movement of your finger on the screen, and will sync those up to play them back when you rehearse.

4. Say your lines with no performance effort at all. Just flat, but with the same pace you expect to use when you audition or perform the scene.

Say your scene partners’ lines with all the richness you expect once you do your performance (which can mean no richness at all, if you expect the flat, fast read of an audition reader).

5. When you’re finished, tap on the stop button at the very right of the bottom toolbar. This button is a stop button only while you’re recording. It turns into a play button immediately after you stop a recording.

6. The moment you stop the recording, the Name The Scene screen will appear. You can simply tap Done if you want to let Rehearsal® Pro name your scene, or you can use the keyboard to rename it to anything you want.

When you tap Done, you’re returned to the scene you’ve just recorded, and you’re ready to rehearse.

Record a second version of the scene

Once you’ve rehearsed your lines with this recorded scene, to the point where you know the lines cold, record a second version of the scene, but this time just mouth your words, don’t say them out loud.

Why?

With this second scene, you have no voicing of your lines to distract you, but you do have the timing you need to really work the scene. And if you find that in changing your performance with the lines that your timing is now off, go ahead and record a third silent scene with your new pace and delivery.

So, where does that scene get stored? They are in your My Scenes area, accessible from the front menu. They are grouped by script title, and in the reverse order that you record them.

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With Rehearsal® Pro, you can get rid of markup mistakes by using the Erase button on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen when in a script or a scene.

But there’s another, faster way to “undo” what you just did: shake to erase, like you would with an Etch-A-Sketch®.

Here’s a video that shows you how, with a very short step-by-step below the video:

And here’s how to do it step by step:

1. If you decide you don’t like the highlight, scribble, beat mark or other markup you just created, just shake your device back and forth a few times.
2. You’ll be asked to confirm the undo.
3. That’s it!

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Adding beat marks is easy. It’s not a tool that’s on the toolbar, but rather a tap-and-hold-and-drag maneuver.

Here’s a video that shows you the whole process:

And here’s how to add a beat mark, step by step:

1. Position your script in the location you want to add a beat mark.
2. Tap and hold on the screen of your device near where you want to place the beat mark.
3. Once the beat mark tool appears, you can then drag it to exactly where you want to place it. Let go, and it’s added to your script.

Here’s how to remove a beat mark:

1. Tap and hold on the screen of your device until the beat mark placement icon appears
2. Roll the icon over the beat mark you want to get rid of. You’ll know it’s ready to remove the beat mark as the icon will change to one with a slashed circle.
3. Let go, and the beat mark will be removed.

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The options for leaving notes or comments for yourself, when marking up your script on an electronic device, like your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, are a lot more varied than just a pen and paper would allow.

Rehearsal® Pro gives you several ways to leave comments (other than writing them with the Scribble tool. Let’s look at the first of four, text comments.

Text comments are boxes that sit on top of your script, containing text. You can use them for reminders, blocking notes, choices you might make and so on…and the key is, they are textual. (We’ll show you how to use the others in separate help pages and videos.)

Here’s a video that shows you how to create and manage text comments, with a step-by-step below that:

Step by step

To use text comments:

1. Place a text comment by double-tapping on your script where you want the comment to be.
2. Choose “Text” from the pop up menu, then choose “Create”.
3. Type in whatever text you want to appear in the text comment on the screen.
4. When you’re finished typing in your text, tap “Done”.
5. Resize your text comment by tapping and dragging the double-arrow icon in the lower right corner of the comment pane.
6. Move your fully expanded text comment around on the screen by tapping, holding and dragging the “title bar” area of the comment pane. There is no title, but just drag what would be the title bar, the top of the comment pane.
7. To collapse your text comment to an icon, just tap on the icon that looks like lines of text in the upper left hand corner of the comment pane.
8. Move your collapsed-to-an-icon text comment around on the screen by tapping, holding and dragging the icon itself.
9. To expand a text comment from an icon to a fully expanded comment pane, just tap on the icon itself.
10. To delete a text comment, make sure it’s fully expanded, then tap on the X in the upper right hand corner of the comment pane. Then, confirm your choice in the pop-up alert.

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We’re not all perfect when we add markup to our scripts, and sometimes, we make mistakes.

Rehearsal® Pro gives you two ways to erase your mistakes: one, using the Eraser button on the bottom toolbar, and two, by treating your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch like an Etch-A-Sketch.

Here’s a video that shows you how to use both methods, with a step-by-step below that:

Step by step

To use the Eraser tool:

1. select the Eraser icon on the bottom.
2. Tap on whatever item of markup (highlighting or scribble) that you want to erase.
3. Repeat for all items you want to erase.

You can also tap and hold, then drag through an area to erase multiple items.

To delete something you’ve just highlighted or scribbled:

1. Quickly and briefly shake your device.
2. Confirm that you want to undo what you just did.

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