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Lighting

Lighting design Lighting is not set design! Lighting is important cause people need to see characters.  Different colors indicate different atmospheres or time of day. Illumination: The simple ability to see what is occurring on stage. Any lighting will be ineffective if the characters aren’t seen, unless this is the intent. Focus: Directing the audience’s attention to an area of stage or distracting them from another. Mood: Setting the tone of the scene. Harsh red light has a different connotation than a soft lavender light. Backlit: creates a shadow over the characters, sinister looking. Location and time of day: establishing or altering position in time and space. Blues can suggest night time, whilst orange can show sunsets. Use of hobos to project sky scene, moon. Projection: lighting may be used to project scenery or to act as scenery on stage. Composition: lighting may be used to show only the areas of the stage which the designer wants the audience to see, a...

Set design

Set design A set design is usually done from a Birdseye view.  Design decisions are made based on two things; The text/script The style and vision of the production  Rea the setting descriptions , stage directions, and lines o& the characters. Pick out all the clues and make a LIST. Research what the place looks like, what the condition of the place where the play happens. Where is it throughout history? All decisions about the design must meet the style and vision for the play. This is determined by the director who usually calls the final decisions. They team has creative liberty past that. They must create metaphors on the stage. Lighting is a separate job than set design, however they work heavily with the design team. It is important that it is not necessary to represent every single detail of the setting where a play happens. It depends on the style of the production. The style of the production that has every detail portrayed is called naturalism. B...

Costume

What is a costume?  Costumes include all clothing, underclothing, hairdressing, makeup, and accessories, such as hats, scarves, fans, canes, umbrellas, and jewelry worn or carried by each character in a production. The design and appearance of costumes are the province of the costume designer. To be effective the design team needs to: Reflect the personality and nature of each character Reflect the setting Show unity between all costumes Types of costume designs: Character costumes Decorative costumes What a person wears, how it is worn, says a great deal about that person and the society in which he or she lives. The clothes can also be visible clues to the wearer’s emotional state. In addition to providing psychological clues, clothing can provide a variety of objective information about a person: Historical period~The shape and silhouette of garments can provide clear indications of their historical period. Age~In any period, the color, style, and fit of...

Annotated script

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Managebac questions

1. How do you imagine the character distribution will work , or how do you see each of the class having a role to play? Explain Majority of the class will play actual characters, others will play thoughts. I don’t think we have enough time to think of new characters so the thoughts will just have to reimaginements of the main characters. 2. How do you envision the costumes we will use as a cast? Explain your idea. The main characters (the birds) will wear white as is per customary in insane asylums. This will be in stark contrast to the thoughts who will be wearing black as to fade into the background. The only one who will wear something different will be the mistress who will wearing an extravagant outfit (boa, heels, fan). 3. What role would you be interested in taking and why. I would love to either be gloom or mistress as I have several idea for what to do. For gloom, majority of the time, she will be silently sopping or stretching pains. However when she gets panicky...

Criteria D performance

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