Friday, December 16, 2011

Basic Theatre Design notes

Scene Design – scene design in theater is to create an environment conducive to the production’s ends. The scene designer uses the same tools of composition-line, form, mass, color, repetition and unity.
The scene must allow the actors to move.

Lighting Design- lighting designers must imagine what their lights will do to an actor, to a costume, to a set.
They must enhance the color of a costume, accent the physique of an actor, and reinforce the plasticity of a setting. They also try to reinforce the dramatic structure and dynamics of the play. They work within the frame work of light and shade. Without shadows and highlights, the human face and body become imperceptible.

Costume Design- works with the entire body of the actor. They design hair styles, and clothing and make-up to suite a specific purpose or occasion, a character, a locale.. A stage costume is an actor’s skin. It allows he/him to move.
a. Accents- it shows audience which personages are the most important in a scene, and it shows the relationship between personages.
b. Reflects – a particular era, time of the day, Climate, season, location or occasion
c. Reveals the style of the performance, the characters of the personages and the personages ' social position, profession, cleanliness, age, physique , health

Properties - is significant and symbolical in the play
a. Set props- furniture, rugs, accessories
b. Hand props – cigarettes, papers, glasses

Aural elements / Music – actor’s voice, background music, clashing of swords,. IT is something to do on how the production sounds- Musical piece creates harmonies, dynamics , rhythms and melodies..The director and the sound designer makes the production develop in an aural sense so the audience is put into the proper mood, drawn from the proper emotional direction and captures by the proper attention points.

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