My mood board surrounds the theme of bathmophobia, the irrational fear of stairs/slopes. The feeling that this board gives is dark and I see a lot of black and gray in it. It gives a really strong feeling of fear especially because most images are dark and gloomy. Most images are also set in a location where there’s not much around it giving it a sense of loneliness.

This is a sketch I made and what I imagine my scenic piece would look like.

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:  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 that starting point for a design.

Stage Configuration: The layout of the stage in the theater you’re producing 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. Site 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.

Through this activity, I learned to use the miter saw and the table saw. I also learned a variety of different painting techniques such as texturing and scumbling that I hadn’t known about previously. The most interesting thing that I’ve noticed is that sometimes when you make a mistake in your flat, you would panic, but actually if you take a step back, the mistake will barely be noticeable. Since the flat is going to be a scenic piece, the audience probably won’t pay too much attention to the details of the flat which is why mistakes can be made while painting, making the process fun and meaningful.

SCUMBLING

SCUMBLING (finished)

LINING 

LINING (finished)

SHADOWS

HIGHLIGHTS

 HIGHLIGHTS AND SHADOWS (finished)

TEXTURING

SPATTERING

Finished product :

To start off, we scumbled the flat and added three different colors to it. It looked really wrong at first but once we did our lining, it looked normal. We did the lining with gray and proceeded to do the highlights with white and shadows with a darker gray. Since the light was going to hit our flat from the top right corner, all our shadows were on the bottom left of our bricks. After highlighting and adding our shadows, we added a watered-down gray to create more dimension in our flat. This technique is called texturing.  Finally, we spattered paint onto our flat to make the flat look even more realistic.