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SET and SCENERY

The stage set plays a crucial role in storytelling, establishing the time, location, and atmosphere before any actor appears. It influences the audience's perception of the drama, shaping their experience. Understanding stage types—proscenium, thrust, or promenade—and their unique audience interactions is essential. Details such as sight lines, drapes, and props all contribute to the immersive environment. An effective set allows the audience to grasp the time period, social status, and emotional tone of the story, enhancing engagement from the very beginning.

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SET and SCENERY

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  1. SET and SCENERY

  2. THE SET TELLS THE AUDIENCE • WHERE THE ACTION IS • WHEN THE ACTION IS • WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECT THE CHARACTERS. • ALL BEFORE ANY ACTORS STEP ON STAGE.

  3. IN SHORT IT HELPS CREATE ATMOSPHERE

  4. Scenery used to show where a drama takes place To place a drama in a certain time or place SET

  5. FIRST DECIDE WHAT KIND OF STAGE YOU WILL BE PERFORMING ON.

  6. END ON STAGE

  7. THRUST STAGE

  8. PROSCENIUM ARCH

  9. AVENUE STAGE

  10. Audience follows the action on foot, moving from one location to another PROMENADE THEATRE

  11. CONSIDER THE EXTRAS…

  12. APRON

  13. Slope of stage to allow actors to be seen RAKE

  14. Drapes which curtain off the back or sides of stage BLACKS

  15. NOW THINK. WHAT ELEMENTS WOULD HELP CREATE THE ATMOSPHERE FOR WHICH YOU ARE AIMING.

  16. CONSIDER What the audience sees of the stage from where they are sitting SIGHT LINES

  17. ---------------------- BACKCLOTH

  18. area above the stage from where set or actors are FLOWN In on pullies FLIES YOU CAN USE THIS TO DROP DIFFERENT BACKCLOTHS

  19. FLATS

  20. DOOR FLAT

  21. WINDOW FLAT

  22. TRAPDOOR

  23. TREADS

  24. Piece of scenery on wheels for ease of movement TRUCK

  25. WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR SET CONSTRUCTED YOU NEED TO DRESS IT WITH DETAILS TO YOUR STORY AND CHARACTERS.

  26. An item placed on the set, usually part of it e.g. a lamp, clock, picture SET PROP

  27. OVER ALL THE WHOLE SET HAS A NAME……..

  28. Resources used to create the setting where a drama takes place, e.g. backcloth, flats, rostra, furniture. SCENERY

  29. IF YOUR SET IS EFFECTIVE THE AUDIENCE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL YOU THE • TIME PERIOD • LOCATION • SOCIAL STATUS • ATMOSPHERE BEFORE ANY ACTORS WALK ON STAGE!

  30. Draw a ground plan for 1 scene from your rehearsed improvisation • Design a set where the opening scene is a house where a murder has happened. • 7 marks

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