Your use of set design will play an important part in your ability to interpret the play script into the physical world of the production to make an impact and to make meaning for an audience.
The set design can:
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This link opens in a new window"Scenic designers must possess a keen eye for visual design and style, impressive technical acuity and attention to detail, and—vitally—a wellspring of creative vision."
Set Designer (Also Called: Scenic Designer, Stage Designer) - Berklee
"The power of the scenic design often goes unrecognized as a key part of the storytelling in a theatrical production. The set design helps to sweep us up into a different world onstage. Rendering that onstage world starts with the production's scenic designer. They research the script and the world of the play and imagine ways to bring audiences into the characters' lives."
Scenic Design Helps Tell the Story: Meet Milagros Ponce de León, by Natalie Clare for Dramatics.
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(7:20) Scenic designer Riccardo Hernandez creates sets built from the text of a production, creating an honest space for actors and ideas to work within. Hernandez knew he wanted a career designing opera sets by age 10, went on to study at Yale with Ming Cho Lee, and later broadened his work to theatre. At Yale Repertory Theatre, he displays the simple yet aggressive set of "Battle of Black and Dogs" that reflects a cold inhuman world. Also shown is the seemingly collapsing set for the Atlantic Theater Company's "Gabriel" during the most important part of the production process - the technical rehearsal.
(10:36) 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer, David Korins. Recorded at TEDX Broadway,
(12:16) WICKED The Musical's Tony Award-winning set design travels around the world, dazzling audiences with one of the most creative & innovative sets ever created. I go to New York City to get a behind-the-scenes look at the set design alongside scenic design artist Edward Pierce. Prepare to be amazed!
(2:14) Five spectacular sets inside one rotating glass box. Here's how creator Simon Stone built the set. With thanks to designer Chloe Lamford, production manager Mekel Edwards, and production assistant Luka Goodsal.
(4:15) Houses. Institutions. Fire. The red room. Michael Vale’s beautiful set design of Jane Eyre makes ‘the ardent nature of the book flares into life.’ (The Guardian)
A National Theatre co-production with Bristol Old Vic, based on the classic novel by Charlotte Brontë, directed by Sally Cookson and devised by the original company.
(5:38) Katrin Brack's unusual set designs are both pared down and extravagant at the same time. Theatergoers can find themselves confronted by walls of fog, showers of confetti or flurries of snow.She is one of the most sought-after designers of her kind. Her latest project was designing the set for Heinrich von Kleist's The Battle of Hermann at the Münchner Kammerspiele. ARTS.21 goes to see the set designer at work.
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