Set Design
1. Watch each of the Set Design videos below.
2. Set Design includes many elements that must blend seamlessly with the design of the costumes, lighting, and sound. Everything comes together to create a believable new world that the audience feels invested in. Each of the following set design terms is a basic, but VERY important part of good scenic design:
3. On a solid white sheet of drawing paper or printer paper, sketch out a scenic design that you would do for a favorite book, movie or fairytale from your childhood. You may not choose any of the shows listed in the videos below. In your drafting sketch, include all of the following:
4. When your sketch is finished and color is added, take a picture and email it to kimberly_marcell@gfps.k12.mt.us
OR
scan your finished drawing and email the file to kimberly_marcell@gfps.k12.mt.us
Once your design draft sketch is received by Mrs. Marcell, she will assign you 4 units for this assignment.
2. Set Design includes many elements that must blend seamlessly with the design of the costumes, lighting, and sound. Everything comes together to create a believable new world that the audience feels invested in. Each of the following set design terms is a basic, but VERY important part of good scenic design:
- Research Board - Images of colors, textures, shapes, artwork and photographs that inspire and influence the scenic designers final choices for the design of a show's set.
- Drafting - When a scenic designer creates a rough sketch of how he/she envisions the set to look from the audience's perspective. These sketches are done for each scene and each set piece, but do not include exact dimensions or precise perspective.
- Model - Constructed by a scenic designer and their team, a model is the 1/2 inch-to-1 foot scale design of a production. Before any actual set pieces can be built for the stage, this to-scale model of the set must be presented and approved by the show's artistic director and production director. (SEE IMAGE FILES BELOW)
- Levels - Various areas created by platforms and flats that create specific performance spaces on the stage for actors to use, in various areas of audience view on the level of the stage and above the true stage floor. Good set design includes 3+ levels throughout a production, and is especially important in large-cast shows to ensure all actors are visible to the audience.
- Platform - A mobile or stationary unit that actors and set pieces may be placed on top of to create levels and raise actor's and set pieces above the stage floor.
- Flat - A vertical, upright set piece that is minimum 8 feet high, which creates a backdrop or wall within a scenic design. These may also be used to mask backstage spaces or changing areas from audience view. They are constructed from a wood frame covered in muslin fabric, and painted within the color palette of the set.
- Scenic Paint - When color is added to raw set pieces.
- Set Dressing - When curtains, wall hangings, framed pictures and other decor are secured to the set in order to make the scene believable and authentic. This is the final stage in set design before the set is completed and ready for performances.
3. On a solid white sheet of drawing paper or printer paper, sketch out a scenic design that you would do for a favorite book, movie or fairytale from your childhood. You may not choose any of the shows listed in the videos below. In your drafting sketch, include all of the following:
- flats
- platforms
- scenic paint (drawing out textures/patterns and coloring your sketch)
- set dressing
4. When your sketch is finished and color is added, take a picture and email it to kimberly_marcell@gfps.k12.mt.us
OR
scan your finished drawing and email the file to kimberly_marcell@gfps.k12.mt.us
Once your design draft sketch is received by Mrs. Marcell, she will assign you 4 units for this assignment.
Contact Mrs. Marcell via email with any questions,
or to submit homework photos / assignments.
kimberly_marcell@gfps.k12.mt.us
or to submit homework photos / assignments.
kimberly_marcell@gfps.k12.mt.us
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