Creative & successful set designs : how to make imaginative stage sets with limited resources / Todd Muffatti.

Filled with dozens of photos, illustrations, and technical diagrams, Todd Muffatti's Creative and Successful High School Set Design guides theatre teachers through the preparation and design steps necessary to build an appropriate and effective stage set. Using his 40-year career as a professio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Muffatti, S. Todd (Author)
Other title:Creative and successful set designs.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ocala, Florida : Atlantic Publishing Group, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Foreword; Introduction; Appropriateness; Scale; Design Scheme; Challenges; Educational; Chapter 1; Performance Spaces; Proscenium Staging; Arena Staging; Thrust Staging; Chapter 2; Your Theater Space; Lighting; Auditorium Seating; Backstage; Your Space; Chapter 3; Play Choice; Single Sets; Unit Sets; Multi-sets; Simultaneous Sets; Chapter 4; Research; Theatre Space; The Playwright; The Script; Conventional staging; Sources; Chapter 5; Design Styles; Realism; Selective Realism; Skeletal Scenery; Structural Sets; Pictorial Style; Decorative Style; Chapter 6; Design Metaphor.
  • Symbolic ObjectsRecyclables; Abstraction; Design Elements; Line; Shapes; Size; Position; Texture; Value; Chapter 7; Color Onstage; Color Qualities; The Color Wheel; Color Schemes; Chapter 8; Stock Scenery; Platforms; Two-folds; Three Designs From Stock; A Midsummer Night's Dream; You Can't Take It With You; Anything Goes; Chapter 9; Drafting; Floor Plans; Front Elevations; Painter's Elevations; Chapter 10; Sketching; Measured Perspective; Furniture Drawing; Chapter 11; Model Building; Model Box; Professional Designers; Model Making Tools; Platforms; Two-Folds; Model Furniture; Patience.
  • Chapter 12Making It Happen; Scheduling; Help; Building; Painting; Furniture and Props; Lighting; Dressing The Set; Set Maintenance; Conclusion; Glossary; Acknowledgments.