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Stage Design
• Designers create the visual and aural elements of a production
• Four major designers– Scenic Designers or
Scenographers– Costume Designers– Lighting Designers– Sound Designers
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What do designers do?• Accept offers to design• Read the script for ideas
– Plot– Characters– Genre– Style– Theme– Meaning
• Research the world of the play– The Fuddy Mears world is distorted– Victorian England
• Develop initial design ideas– “unpacking”– “brain storming”– First production conference or first production meeting
• Collaborate in developing the production concept– Director’s concept or interpretation– Developing the Production Concept
• What the play will look and sound like
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First draft of visual and aural designs
• Scene and costume designers– Sketchs
• Manually• CAD or Vectorworks
– Scale Model– White model– Model Box
• Lighting Designers– Storyboards
• Sound Designers– Existing sources– Build
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Soft Scenery
• Flat scenery– Drapes– Hanging Fabric– Backdrops
• May be painted to look three dimensional
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Soft Scenery
– Cyclorama or “cyc”• Huge white or light
gray, tightly stretched curtain attached to pipes at its top and bottom place at the back of the stage
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Hard Scenery
• Flat scenery• Flats• Flats can be put together
to create– Walls– Doors– Windows– Fire places– Arches– Anything that must sustain
the illusion of a constructed surface
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Dimensional Scenery
• Non flat scenery• Staircases• Ramps• Platforms• Columns • Tree trunks• Any three
dimensional scenery
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Further development
• Solidify the Production Concept – Second production conference
• Finalize Designs
• Communication
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/rams-head/archives/sprshow/00/Productionmeetingagendas.html
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Technical Drawings
• Complete technical drawings, charts and plots• Manually to scale
– Scale ruler• CAD or Vectorworks
– Ground Plan• Looking down on the set
– Elevation• Looking from the front
– Cross Section• Looking from the side
• http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pacshop/graphics.html• http://www.goodmantheatre.org/About/
Production.aspx
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Costumes
• Costume Drawings• List
– What the actor will wear
• Plot– What order the
costumes are worn
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Lighting
• Light plot– May use the
• designer’s plans• Theatre’s plans• Draw his or her own
• Instrument Schedule– What light
• Color media– How the lights will be
gelled• Cue sheet
– All the light changes and when they happen in the script
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Sound Designers
• Sound Plot– Where are the
speakers to be places
– Which channel are they connected
– Microphones
• Cue Sheet– When is each track
to be played– What microphones
are used and when
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Technical Director
• Supervisor of the scene shop
• Supervises– Budgets– Schedules– Personnel– Construction and
installation of scenery
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Supervise realization of designs
• Scene designers consult with technical director and scene painter
• Costume designer– Fittings
• Lighting Designer– Master Electrician– Technical Director
• Sound Designer– Sound board operator
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Load in or Move in
• Stage manager• Focus the lights• Technical Rehearsal• Dress Rehearsals• Preview• Opening
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Final Rehearsals
• Technical Rehearsal• Dress Rehearsals• Preview• Opening