So this is done in pencil (or pen!) and you get the physical pieces
of paper marked up from the composer? This is how I've always done
it, too, but it sure would be great to have a way of marking up
electronically, as Microsoft Word does, so that the proofs could
just be sent back over the Internet. Scanning and faxing lose
detail and colour, if someone uses coloured pens as most of my
clients do. I suppose musical notation stickies would be just too
complex...
Hi Christopher,
Yes, I get the physical scores back marked up with, if I'm lucky,
*red* pencil or pen. Some composers still like to make changes to
physical pieces of paper which I can certainly understand. I've also
had composers request the scores be printed out first and then sent
to them for final changes too. We use messengers like crazy here
'cause LA is so big we just don't have the time to get in the car and
do all that driving. I kinda like the idea of a messenger though
anyway. I think if there is a budget for it, using a messenger is
very professional. I proofread my scores from actual print outs
still too. I guess I still feel like I get a better feel for things
is I'm looking at paper rather than a computer screen. But, as John
and Brad mentioned there are other ways of making changes
electronically....
As far a the fax machines go....well, I'm sure we all have stories
about what we have had to copy from when a fax machine was
involved!! :-) But we still use 'em here if absolutely necessary
because of time! Cannon has a line of tabloid size scanners that
have sheet feeders which we use to scan hand written scores into PDFs
to put on our server and the quality is really actually pretty good.
Hope all is well!
-Karen
Christopher
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