Front elevation:

Bird-eye view:

This is my draft idea for scoptophobia, the fear of being stared at.

Analysis:

Color: the color varies across the mood board

Symbol: the symbol represented here is mainly the eye. Specifically the eyeball and pupils.

Shape: the shape of an eye and human figures

Space: lots of people staring at you at once, or being stared at directly

Emotion: being stared at by so many pairs of eyes at the same time delivers an extremely uncomfortable feeling

Scenic Design – The aspect of a production that gives a sense of ‘space’ or location. Can be realistic or symbolic. Aids in creating ‘atmosphere’.

Mood board (concept) – A poster that contains imagery that will help focus the design or conceptual weight of a piece of theater.

Thumbnail sketch – A quick sketch or drawing that becomes the starting point for a design.

Stage configuration – The layout of the stage in the theater you are producing the play.

Groundplan/”birds eye view” – The top down look of the design. Gives you an idea of WHERE things are on the stage.

Elevation – The FRONT look of the design. Gives you an idea of what you will see when you are looking at the stage.

Flat – A scenic piece that is used to build doorways or walls. Light, flexible, and can be built to order.

Sight lines – The view of an audience onto the stage. Sight Lines are taken from many different seats to see what they see.

Masking/Masking flats – Flats or curtains design ‘hide’ the elements of the stage we don’t want the audience to see

Inquiry

At the start of the episode, Es commented that her practice over the years has been to follow the path of inquiry and then find collaborators who are willing to share their paths with her. What does this mean to you?

It means to me that her motivation to step into new insights had shaped her as an inspirational individual. Not only that, but it also assisted her to meet and work with lots of great people that shared the same interests as her, which essentially boosted her creativity to a deepened level.

Ingredients

During the episode, Es stated 5 ingredients of stage design.. (and perhaps photography). What are the ingredients?

Ingredient 1: Space

Ingredient 2: Light

Ingredient 3: Darkness

Ingredient 4: Scale

Ingredient 5: Time

Pick ONE ingredient and describe or explain what it means according to Es.

The first ingredient space means the depth that can be created on stage in terms of opening up to the audience’s views.

Communicating

For “Watch The Throne” tour featuring Kanye West and Jay-Z, Es questioned what the word Throne meant to the artists. For them, Throne was being on top and then having to fight to stay on top — in other words, the Throne meant the tension between power and vulnerability. Can you describe how she created a design that communicated the ‘tension between power and vulnerability”?

Kanye West and Jay-Z were high up, standing on boxes above where the audience stood. It seems powerful because they are above everyone else, as if superior and authoritative among all the others. At the same time, they are vulnerable because any minor insouciance would cause them to fall off the boxes.

This is a picture of the fly space in the MS/HS theatre. I thought this place was super cool as I never knew backstage members could work this high up above the stage. The fly space connects to the theatre as it is what attaches the curtains that hang down to the stage.

This place is the fly system of the MS/HS theatre. This is one of the places that makes me the most excited as it is the highest place that you can possibly reach in this theatre. The fly system connects to the theatre as it is what holds all stage components in position, also to lift things up on stage.

This picture is taken from the catwalk in the MS/HS theatre. I found this place pretty surprising because when I sat in the balcony area in the audience, I never noticed there was such a place above me. The catwalk connects to theatre as it is what allows backstage members to secretly control lighting above the stage without the audience noticing.

This place is the dimmer room of the MS/HS theatre. As there were many dimmers on the shelves, I found it pretty cool as I never knew there were this many lights in the theatre. The dimmer room connects to the theatre as it controls how dim the lighting shot on stage is.

Vocab:

Costume Rendering: a sketch of a costume

Swatch: a fabric sample

Building: making a costume

Costume Parade: a procession where actors wear their costumes under the lights to ensure compatibility of the colors.

Costume Plot: an outline that describes the colors, fabrics and accessories for each costume design; kept by wardrobe manager

Wardrobe Manager: person responsible for creating costume plot and caring for costumes during rehearsals and performances.

Dressers: assistants who help with costume changes and help care for costumes

Quick Change: switching costumes quickly during a performance.

The 10 Factors:

Age
Gender
Social Status
Occupation
Geographic Location
Occasion/Activity
Time of Day
Season/Weather
Historical Period
Psychological Factors/Personality/Emotions

In this video, I experimented with lighting design at home. I played around with components of the shadows and effects that lighting can create at different angles and positions. The lighting I used is simply the phone flashlight. Blurry, fade-in, and fade-out effects worked as an outcome. Different shadows were also successfully created through the movement of the lighting source.

I used to think that the use of lighting is purely just to make something look bright or dim. But after I explored lighting with focus, I found out that it is the factor in portraying a specific atmosphere or mood. I also found out the importance of color in lighting, how it relates to our feelings. As a conclusion to these findings, I realized that lighting is not only about supplements of brightness, it is what shapes the ambiance through components of colors, shadows, and contrasts.

• Lighting design – The concept that a designer creates to provide light onstage to support the mood or atmosphere of the play
• Light plot – The map that shows where all of your lighting instruments are placed and where they will be lighting
• Lighting grid – Up above the stage, it is the system of bars and electric that power the lights
• Lighting board – The control panel that powers the lights; when they turn on and off and at what intensity
• Cyclorama – The large white ‘sheet’ at the back of the stage that can be lit or projected on
• Back light – Lighting from the back
• Side light – Lighting from the side
• Top light – Lighting from above
• Front light – Lighting from the front
• Footlight – Lighting that is placed on the floor in the front
• Spotlight – A single source of light focused on a single subject
• Fill light – Light sources that add lighting in and around the set/scenery/stage – they ‘fill in’
• Wash – A large group of lighting that can ‘wash’ the stage in light that you can bring up at once together
• Lighting angle – The angle of the lighting instrument in relation to the subject; usually 45%
• Gobo (or pattern) – A pattern (in olden days it was a circle of metal) that blocks light to give you a shape onstage
• Gel (or color gel) – The color that you want the instrument to throw onstage (or light onstage)