The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition Methods and Practice

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The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition Methods and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design.This text concentrates on the skills necessary to create effective evocative and engaging theatrical designs that support the play contextually thematically and visually. It gives students the grounding in core design principles they need to approach design challenges and make design decisions in both assigned class projects and realized productions. This book features: In-depth discussions of design elements and principles for costume set lighting sound and projection designs Coverage of key concepts such as content context genre style play structure and format and the demands and limitations of various theatrical spaces Essential principles including collaboration inspiration conceptualization script analysis conducting effective research building a visual library developing an individual design process and the role of the critique in collaboration Information on recent digital drawing tool technology such as the Wacom Inkling pen Wacom Intuos digitizing tablets and digital sketching and rendering programs such as Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and Adobe Photoshop Chapter exercises and key terms designed to provide an engaging experience with the material and to facilitate student understanding