Goals

• design concept, original yet in concert with director's vision
• visually set style and tone
• visually set time period and location
• solve practical problems of play's setting
• coordinate scenery with other design elements

• line
• mass
• composition
• space
• postive and negative
• 3 and 4 dimensions
• texture - 2D and 3D
• color
• hue
• saturation
• value
• temperature

• flat
• cutout
• platform
• wagon
• revolve
• drop
• scrim
• cyclorama
• projections - 2D or 3D

• Text analysis - number locations, style, problems
• Select visual and theatrical stye - illusionistic versus theatrical
• Refine design concept
• Thumbnail sketches
• Draft groundplan
• Renderings or model
• Elevations or working drawings

• Ancient: periaktoi or no periaktoi?
• Renaissance: Serlio's three settings for tragedy, comedy, pastoral
• perspective painting on wing and drop scenery
• Baroque: Torelli's chariot and pole system of scene shifting
• 19th century: box set
• historical accuracy
• Modernism: Appia and Craign; 3D scenery and "selective" design
• Mid 20th century: Svoboda introduces projections, stills and moving images
• Late 20th century: computer generated 2D and 3D; virtual reality

• create designer's ideas, compensate for distance between audience and set piece
• painter's elevation
• use grid to copy to full-sized scenery
• Add depth and texture with material mixed into paint or various faux techniques
• Mix colors, at least three

• Set dressings
• Set or stage props
• Hand props
• Costume props
• Historical accuracy, practicality, or used up