1. Stage Design
Designers create the visual and aural elements of a production
Four major designers
Scenic Designers or Scenographers
Costume Designers
Lighting Designers
Sound Designers

2. What do designers do? Accept offers to design
Read the script for ideas
Plot
Characters
Genre
Style
Theme
Meaning
Research the world of the play
The Fuddy Mears world is distorted
Victorian England
Develop initial design ideas
“unpacking”
“brain storming”
First production conference or first production meeting
Collaborate in developing the production concept
Director’s concept or interpretation
Developing the Production Concept
What the play will look and sound like

3. First draft of visual and aural designs
Scene and costume designers
Sketchs
Manually
CAD or Vectorworks
Scale Model
White model
Model Box
Lighting Designers
Storyboards
Sound Designers
Existing sources
Build

5. Soft Scenery Flat scenery Drapes Hanging Fabric Backdrops
May be painted to look three dimensional

7. Soft Scenery Cyclorama or “cyc”
Huge white or light gray, tightly stretched curtain attached to pipes at its top and bottom place at the back of the stage

8. Hard Scenery Flat scenery Flats Flats can be put together to create
Walls
Doors
Windows
Fire places
Arches
Anything that must sustain the illusion of a constructed surface

9. Dimensional Scenery Non flat scenery Staircases Ramps Platforms
Columns
Tree trunks
Any three dimensional scenery

10. Further development Solidify the Production Concept Finalize Designs
Second production conference
Finalize Designs
Communication

11. Technical Drawings Complete technical drawings, charts and plots
Manually to scale
Scale ruler
CAD or Vectorworks
Ground Plan
Looking down on the set
Elevation
Looking from the front
Cross Section
Looking from the side

12. Costumes Costume Drawings List Plot What the actor will wear
What order the costumes are worn

13. Lighting Light plot Instrument Schedule Color media Cue sheet
May use the
designer’s plans
Theatre’s plans
Draw his or her own
Instrument Schedule
What light
Color media
How the lights will be gelled
Cue sheet
All the light changes and when they happen in the script

14. Sound Designers Sound Plot Cue Sheet
Where are the speakers to be places
Which channel are they connected
Microphones
Cue Sheet
When is each track to be played
What microphones are used and when

15. Technical Director Supervisor of the scene shop Supervises Budgets
Schedules
Personnel
Construction and installation of scenery

16. Supervise realization of designs
Scene designers consult with technical director and scene painter
Costume designer
Fittings
Lighting Designer
Master Electrician
Technical Director
Sound Designer
Sound board operator

17. Load in or Move in Stage manager Focus the lights Technical Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsals
Preview
Opening

18. Final Rehearsals
Technical Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsals
Preview
Opening