Designing for Theatre

1. Designing for Theatre

2. Types of Design • Costume • Set • Light • Sound • Props • Make-up

3. How to come up with a Design • Who- Characters in the play • What- does the play give you clues for what to design • When- Time Period • Where- Location • Mood of the play • Imagery in the play

4. Costume Design • Costume Plot- List of every character and costume for each scene • Costume Rendering- head to toe drawing of a character that is labeled with all the costume pieces • Acquisitions list- Each costume piece you decide to :Buy, Pull, Rent, Borrow or Build?

5. COSTUME PLOT

6. COSTUME RENDERING

7. Set Design • Set Plot/Ground Plan- bird’s eye stage view with where the set pieces go and what they are • Elevation sketch/Set Rendering- drawing of what the audience sees • Model- 3D mini set to show the crew how the set should look after build

8. SET PLOT/GROUND PLAN

9. SET RENDERING

10. SET MODEL

11. Lighting Design • Light Plot- like a ground plan but with lighting instruments • Cue Sheet- List of lighting cues for every scene in a play; tells what lights will be on and when that happens

12. LIGHTING PLOT

13. LIGHT CUE SHEET

14. Sound Design • Microphones for actors? Live sound? Recorded sound? • Cue Sheet- List of sound cues and when in the play they are played, for how long, and the volume level

15. SOUND CUE SHEET

16. Props- Props Master • Decorative Props/Set dressing, Hand Props • Decide- Buy, Build, Pull, Borrow, Rent? • Prop Table- Each prop is labeled and split up into sections

17. PROPS TABLE

18. Make-up • Straight Make-up or Character Make-up? Any special effects? • Make-up Morgue- book of researched pictures to help with the design • Make-up Rendering- Blank Face that you color and label with location of make-up and type

19. MAKE-UP RENDERING