Translating the mood board into SPACE

Design 1

 

 

Info about the genre:

This stage design focuses on the genre of dreamcore. Dreamcore is a surrealist aesthetic that uses motifs commonly associated with dreams, daydreams or nightmares, portrayed through media such as images, videos and, on occasion, music.

Stage Design

This stage design forces the audeince to wonder and focus on the center spot, which is the dark door in the distance of the stage. In the background on the right is a small bedroom half-hidden behind panels floating in the air. These panels create the feeling that the character is leaving the bedroom into another universe which in this genre it is referred to as “dreamland”. The bold red wording and arrows are a style used in this genre, it acts as the character’s thoughts (what the character is thinking) but is displayed.

Inspirational Images:

Design 2

This design is inspired by one of my other inspirational pics, this focuses on liminal space. Liminal space is a transition between two different places or states of existence. A mall at 4 a.m. or a school hallway over the summer, for example, are typically deserted and often vacant. This gives it a frozen, unpleasant vibe, yet it’s also familiar to our brains. In this case, the house would be situated in a rather bright stage however it feels disturbing as the space inside the house is empty and somehow familiar.

Inspirational picture

Scenic Design Vocabulary

Scenic Design – The aspect of 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’s the design or conceptual weight of a piece of theatre

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

Stage Configuration – The layout of the stage in the theatre you are producing in the play

Ground plan/ 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 designed to hide the elements of the stage we don’t want the audience to see

 

 

Scenic Painting Pt2

 

 

During the process of scenic painting, there are 5 steps to complete. Scumbling is requires the facing to be covered with a variety of paints with similar colour tones, it acts as the base colour . After the Scumbling process lining is required, lining creates the brick shape on the facing. Highlights and shadows are then added to enhance each brick’s 3D structure, texturing is an additional step to make bricks look 3 dimensional. To finish off the scenic painting process, spattering is added to create the extra texture of each brick.