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In this tutorial you will learn some
basics about set and costume design:
• What every set designer needs to consider
• How to make a perspective drawing
• What every costume designer needs to
consider
• How to create a silhouette sketch
• Then, you will make a costume rendering
This info is an overview to TECHNICAL
THEATER and will help you in the head and
shoulder costuming of your stage makeup
challenge.
Let’s get started!
The numbering in this tutorial will
match the numbering on your study
guide. Be sure to look at the video
examples when they are provided.
Set Design1. As soon as the curtain opens
the set should tell the audience:
a. The social circumstances
of the characters.
b. The mood or feel of the play.
When designing the set for your short play,
consider the following things:
Set Design: Things to Consider2. Entrances, Exits, Windows?
• How many Doors? Archways?
• Trap doors or stairs?
• Even if your characters don’t enter or exit, realistically, every room has doors and windows.
3. Required Set Pieces and Props?
Whatever the script mentions, must be in your design. Steamer trunk for an actor to hide in? Does someone use a cell phone? Or sit under a tree?
AND, add pieces to DECORATE the set.Make it look/feel real, lived in.
Set Design: Things to Consider4. Time Period: Contemporary? Depression era? 1950s? 1980s? Your drawing, decoration, set pieces, and color will need to reflect the appropriate time period.
5. Mood & Atmosphere:
What feeling do you get from the play as you read it?
Is it a comedy, drama or mystery?
Is the setting seedy, middle class, upscale?
Is the show abstract, intended to keep the audience off-balance in some way?
You'll need to “show” those in your design and décor.
Set Design: Things to Consider
6. Create Visual Interest:
• Diagonals are more visually interesting than everything being on the square.
• Try to put walls and furniture on a diagonal if possible. Pretend that your whole room is not facing the audience, but slightly rotated.
• Differences in vertical height also make for a more interesting set.
• Curves can be very interesting on stage - try an arched window, doorway, or alcove, a spiralstaircase, or low steps that curve out instead of being straight across.
Set Design: Things to Consider7. Research:• Look up examples of the things
you want to put on stage. • These pictures give you ideas
for your drawings.
PROFESSIONALS do these . . . • Look at photo books on
architecture and home décor. • Go online to see other
designers’ work. • Pull paint chip cards and freebie
design pamphlets from the hardware store.
• Research is especially useful for period plays.
8. Create a Perspective Drawing• A perspective drawing is
what the set will look like from the audience member’s perspective.
8. Create a Perspective Drawing• A perspective drawing is
what the set will look like from the audience member’s perspective.
• Choose a color scheme----defines characters ----works with costuming ----supports the mood or
energy of the play. • Decide which surfaces are
simply painted and what gets a different treatment.– styrofoam to look like
stone– fake marble painting or
other texturing– wallpaper– Blended colors to like
aging plaster
Set Design: Practice the Perspective Drawing
1. In the
practice
box on your
sheet, start
with back
wall. Draw
this in the
middle of
the practice
box
Set Design: Perspective Drawing
1. Start with
back wall.
2. Add side
walls.
Set Design: Perspective Drawing
1. Start with
back wall.
2. Add side
walls.
3. Add set
pieces.
4. Add
windows,
doors,
stairs, etc.
5. Color.
Set Design: Perspective Drawing
6. Lastly, add title:
the living room
Moving In Day
Design by John Doe
Victoria S. and Rob J.
1. Start with
back wall.
2. Add side
walls.
3. Add set
pieces.
4. Add
windows,
doors,
stairs, etc.
5. Color.
Creative Set Designs
using only lights and panels
Costume Design &
Costume Renderings
A Costume Designer . . .
. . . creates the OUTER APPEARANCE of a character – an appropriate look and SILHOUETTE.
1. Read and analyze the script.
2. Work with director, set designer, lighting designer, make-up artist to develop design concepts.
Remember, costumes will be on a stage with the set, other props, furniture, and other characters – Color, era, etc. have to work together.
Costume Designer . . .
3. Do research to fill out design concepts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=W7VXBLaN2XA&feature=related
Costume Designer . . .4. Produce drawings andCOLOR RENDERINGS of costumes.
5. Daily Duties: PURCHASING
fabrics, new or used clothing
and accessories.
Develop PATTERNS for
costumes. Attend FITTINGS
and some rehearsals.
Costume Designer . . .6. Costumes are not fashion design but CHARACTER CONCEPT. Dress, distort, or enhance the body.
• Work with actors to help them build their
character from the outside, while they
build it from the inside.
• Do not complain about the shape or
age of actors or their bodies. Create
the shape needed– a visual
representation of the character that suits
the existing body.
Costume Designer…
Lastly, be aware of the ACTOR’S MOVEMENT needs on stage –be sure you are designing for those physical needs. Watch quick crew changes below:
You Design!
On the female body model on your
work sheet, you will create a
COSTUME RENDERING.
BEGIN begin by sketching the
SILHOUETTE (outside shape) of
the costume. Then move on to the
following details:
Texture &
Pattern
Hair
Embellishments
Leg treatments
Footwear
You Design!
On the male body model on your
work sheet, you will create a
COSTUME RENDERING.
BEGIN begin by sketching the
SILHOUETTE (outside shape) of
the costume. Then move on to the
following details:
Texture &
Pattern
Hair
Embellishments
Leg treatments
Footwear
EXAMPLE Costume
Renderings
EXAMPLE Costume
Renderings
THE
END
Good luck in your design
challenge!