Our Country's Good set
What are the 3 aims of a design set question?
Location, Era, Atmosphere
What are the different styles of a set?
Symbolism which is more abstract and representational of the world, period, and themes. Objects and items could be exaggerated, tilted, or positioned.
Realism, which can be total or partial, by looking into detail at the scene setting and how it ought to be replicated.
Minimalism which uses 'minimal signification' whereby only certain props are used, not incorportaing the whole set at all.
More things to consider?
SHAPE- pathways, floor shape, change to playing area, cohesive or separated furniture? platform, levels.
COLOUR- reflecting mood, atmosphere, sources of light, reality, themes, sub-text?
SCALE- the difference in sizes, disjointed or comforting?
TEXTURE
SET CHANGES
What are the steps for drawing set in the exam?
1)Decide on what style and write that down first
2)What stage style/positioning (ie thrust, proscenium)
3)Write in 'audience' where they would be positioned
4)Raised or floor stage
5)Start drawing set
6)Place in stick figures with their names.
7)Begin to label with textures, colours and materials
8)Afterward label the entrances and exits that the actors have.
9)Finally label how you are going to change this in the other scene.
OCG Set essay writing layout?
You have to state the style (realism, minimalism, symbolism) and the justification for it backed up with research and context.
Context - the officers?
-Able to bring furniture from England onto the First Fleet ships, chests of drawers, bed frames, desks etc
-Tents made of leather or animal hides and pinned with wooden stakes
Context - the terrain?
-Poor quality of soil, however, better than Botany Bay previously visited
-A stream dividing the convicts and officers
-Weather fluctuated went from unbearable heat to torrential thunderstorms
-Rough land had to be cleared by hand, making land uneven
-Days were substantially longer, nights shorter