Set Design Notes
16th April 2018
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Symbolism - Through the items on the stage, the audience is guided towards a particular interpretation of the ply. Each item and object has a specific and symbolic value.
Set Design
Set design are traditionally drawn in a bird eye's view. They can be drawn in pencil or online on softwares. To design a set, we need to use the text and the directors vision. we need to take in account the location of the audience and see if props block the views of the audience.
All directions about design should be based on the text if there is mentioned information in the playbook. The director gets to interpret the text to create a vision that then becomes the set. He then meets with the other designers and discusses the vision to make it come to life. Directors could also use metaphors on stage. For example, if there are bookshelves falling on top of each other. It could mean the destruction of education or knowledge
Scenic Design-
- The director must take into account what the place looked like at the time. What forces of weather may have acted on it? What was happening historically at the time? Level of technology?
Example, a government office in China is not the same as in India or in France.
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Types of Set design
Naturalism It is not completely necessary to represent every single detail of the setting where a play happens. The style of production in which as much realistic recreation of the actual place where the action happens is called naturalism. This is similar to realism but has more details. It is designed by answering the question "What would the place actually look like?"
Expressionism Another style of set design is expressionism. It heightens and exaggerates the mood of the scene and externalizes the interior emotions of the characters. Expressionism is not concerned at all with what the environment of the play would really look like. Expressionism expresses as loudly as possible. It uses bright colors and intense contrast.
Symbolism - Through the items on the stage, the audience is guided towards a particular interpretation of the ply. Each item and object has a specific and symbolic value.
This is a detailed record of the content we covered in class, and you have most of the essential points covered here. You should think about including more images because they can be very helpful as a visual reminder of what we learned. Good work.
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