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• Scenic Designer
• Lighting Designer
• Costume Designer
• Sound Designer
• Greek
playwright.
• 5th century
B.C.
• Credited with providing some kind of
“skenographia” or decoration of the
“skene” (stage house).
• Introduced machinery and scenic
elements to indicate tombs and altars.
• Prism-shaped,
three-sided
scenic units.
• Time: One day or
less.
• Place: One
location.
• Action: no
digression or
“by-play.”
• Ground Plan: a drafting of the plan of the
stage as seen from overhead.
• Section: a drafting showing the vertical
elements of the space and their relative
positions.
• Rendering: A picture of the set, drawn in
perspective from the audience’s point of
view.
• Model: a three-dimensional miniature
version of the set, built to scale.
• Front elevation: breaks the set into units to
be built and shows each piece of scenery
from the front.
• Painter’s elevation (in color): shows the plan
for painting each piece of scenery.
• Rear elevation: shows each piece of scenery
from the back.
• Technical Director: safety, scheduling,
execution, transfer and setup
• Scene Shop Foreman: oversees
construction of the sets by carpenters,
painters and craftspeople.
• Props Manager: organizes the collection
or building of all properties on the show.
• Shadows rise from below.
• Intensity: How bright the lighting is.
• Color.
• Distribution: How light is spread over
the stage (including angle and
texture).
• Orchestration (movement): changes in
any of the first three elements that
occur during a performance.
• Costume Plot: a chart that records
items of clothing worn by each actor
in each scene of the play.
• Silhouette (“line”): the outer
shape of the costume.
• Color.
• Texture: the “feel” of the fabric.
• Accent: details to finish or set off
a costume.
• Taking the actor’s measurements.
• Drafting a pattern.
• Cutting.
• Sewing.
• Fitting the garment on the actor.
• Previous to the Great Depression: all sound
effects and music in the theatre were
created by live musicians.
• Recorded sound: first used in 1929 in Elmer
Rice’s Street Scene to imitate the sound of
a busy New York street.
