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Theater Week 4

Textbook
Scenery (pg 98-102)
 Design concept: expresses the production concept as a complete plan for realizing the
decisions and choices made
 Set is a visual metaphor for abstract ideas
o Ex: Death of a Salesman (tight rooms)
 Set establishes style and tone
 Act curtain: the main drape that separates the stage and audience
o Common to leave this open before the play begins
o Gives audience chance to make assumptions of the play
 Realistic set could be highly illusionistic setting in which walls of a completely furnished
room are recognizable, but it might also describe a more theatrical setting in which some
carefully selected practical objects only suggest the full environment
o Expressionistic, absurdist, epic, or postmodern give more abstract sets
 The set is the world of the characters
 Set designers need to research the particulars of the play to embody the mood (visual
research too)
o If time piece, want to be accurate
o Sometimes its updated
 Storyboard: presenting a series of sketches that show the set changes over the course of
the performance
o Line, mass, color, texture, space, composition  all work together for mood and
emotion
Costumes (pg 113-119)
 The visual identity of the character to give clues to the audience about who that person is
 Choices define the world of the play, gives geographic location for example, or money or
adherence to fashion trends
o Audience attaches meaning to these things
o Could also show emotional or psychological states
o Colors mean certain things (red=anger or passion)
 Careful selection working with the director and other designers
 Sometimes not a specific person but idea
 Costume plot: structure to determine the needs for the production (costume wise)
 Costume renderings: sketches, paintings or collages
 Ideas must be turned into reality
Lighting (pg 131-132)
 Gives the ability to subtly influence the perceptions of the audience and to dramatically
transport them from one magical place to the next
 Functions of lighting
o Selective visibility. Selective visibility is revealing what the audience needs to see
and the manner in which they need to see it. This may vary from scene to scene.
Sometimes only a silhouette needs to be seen. At other times, the audience needs
to see all the detail of a scene brightly lit.
o Composition. This is directing the eye of the audience to a particular place or
places on stage. The composition of a scene begins with what the scene designer
places on the stage, continues with where the director places the actors, and is
completed when the lighting designer guides the audience’s eye to what needs to
be seen.
o Revelation of form. Altering shape is one of the greatest powers of the lighting
designer. Figures on stage (and sometimes scenery) must be lit in such a way as to
maintain a constant three dimensional presence.
o Establishing the mood. Mood is an inescapable feature of light— color, shape,
and visibility must be used to establish the tone of a scene.
o Reinforcing the theme. The lighting of the scene must support the action of the
scene. By doing so, the designer helps to convey the themes of the play
 Mistakes when you ignore any of the functions
Sound (pg 108)
 Interview with Richard Woodbury
 Role is to make the story telling more potent
 Surfaces where sound can bounce off of
 Additional sonic content to enhance the storytelling (frames the story is advance)
o This is the second role

Steal Like an Artist


 Basically all ideas are stolen
o What is worth stealing and what isn’t
o Noting is original
 The bible quote says this
 Not depressing, but hopeful
 Embrace influence
o Think genetics: genealogy of ideas
 Only as good as the things you surround yourself with
o Collect ideas, educate yourself
 Not about research, but searching
o Nothing more important than an unread library
 Don’t need to know who you are to create
 Fake it til you make it  two ways to look at it (pg 30 or pdf page 16)
 The world is a stage
 Start copying what you love
o Even the Beatles started as a cover band
o Be influenced by many
 Good theft vs bad theft
 We are incapable of making perfect copies which is the best flaw
 Transform their work into something of your own

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