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\nUnderstanding Set Design\n

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\nLooking for a complete unit on set design? Check out the lessons in a collection that takes theatre arts students through the entire process, from the initial reading and analysis of a script to the presentation of a production model.\n
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\nLesson 1- Set Design\n

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\nLine, shape, color, texture, space. The first in a three-part series of lessons intended for advanced theatre arts classes introduces the elements of set design. Class members examine maquettes and analyze how designers have put together...\n
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\nCreate a Set Design\n

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\nGroups create a set for a play or story they select, build a model, and share their stage with the class. The team explains the rationale for their choices and the mood they feel their staging creates.\n
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\nSet and Prop Design\n

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\nWhat's the difference between set dressing and a prop? Between a costume accessory and a personal prop? As part of their study of set and prop design, class members engage in a series of activities that prepare them to design a prop for...\n
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\nScavenger Hunt\n

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\nYoung theatre artists engage in a scavenger hunt to acquaint themselves with set design. The challenge is to search the site and match a separate maquette with each of the 24 clues.\n
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\nTeaching Guide: Set Design\n

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\nThe task of creating a set for a theater production may leave theater arts students asking where to begin. Set their minds at ease with a packet that not only provides information about the elements of design, but also guides them...\n
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\nPutting Ideas Together\n

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\nAs part of their study of set design, theater arts learners put together what they have learned so far and create a thumbnail sketch of a set that they feel captures the style and mood they want to project. \n
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\nThe Presentation\n

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\nAs their final act in a 10-lesson theater arts unit, set designers present their models to the class and explain how their choices of line, color, and texture support the theme they wish to convey.\n
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\nPerforming Modernized Shakespeare\n

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\n“All the world’s a stage…” What do Leonardo DiCaprio, Heath Ledger, and Kenneth Branagh have in common? They have all starred in modern adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. After viewing a series clips from modern Shakespeare videos,...\n
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\nUnderstanding the Research Process\n

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\nThe second lesson in a unit on set design focuses on the importance of historical and stylistic research. Working in teams created in the previous session, groups consider what resources they will use as they consider design concepts for...\n
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\nVisual Metaphors in Scenic Design: Activity\n

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\nAs part of a study of how visual metaphors are used in set design, class members examine an image of designer Josef Svoboda's 3-D scale model for the opera Idomeneo, re` di Creta. They then find another example that employs a visual...\n
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\nComputer Age\n

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\nTheater arts class members get a chance to see how professionals employ tech tools. As they sketch, render, build models, and prepare presentations of the set design for a current show, learners either visit a professional theater or by...\n
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\nSet Design: Public Space on Stage\n

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\nStudents create a set that captures the essence or feeling of a public space.\n
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\nIntroducing the Text and Learning the Process of Script Analysis\n

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\nWhere do directors and set designers get their ideas so that the set they build creates the mood and atmosphere the director wants for a production? From the script! Introduce theater high schoolers to the script analysis techniques used...\n
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\nGuided by their analysis of a scene, their initial sketches, and renderings, set designers begin to craft a scaled, 3-D model of the set of the play they have chosen. \n
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\nWorking in pairs, set designers take turns sharing their sketches, explaining how their renderings articulate their concept, and receiving feedback on concerns and questions.\n
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\nPrimary Source Set: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott\n

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\nWhat did Jo write her stories with? How did the March sisters dress? A primary source set designed for Louisa May Alcott's Little Women prompts learners to look over images of household items and clothes from the 1860s before...\n
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\nShakespeare's Julius Caesar: Leadership and a Global Stage\n

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\nShakespeare's Julius Caesar is, among other things, the study of a ruler's ambitions. Young scholars watch videos, read articles, and keep a Commonplace Book while studying the play. At the end of Act III, pupils stage the play that...\n
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\nShakespeare Stealer: Design a Set\n

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\nIn groups, learners design sets for the play, \"Shakespeare Stealer.\" They sketch a scale model of a set and present it to the teacher, who will choose which group gets to design the entire set. \n
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\nSemiotics and Set: Year 9\n

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\nDrama enthusiasts explore the importance of set and action in conveying dramatic tension. They act out a polished dramatic piece using the set as a key component of their story. This should be connected to setting as it is also used in...\n
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\nUnderstanding Design, Composition, and Color\n

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\nLights, Camera, Action...Crossing the Delaware in 9 Scenes\n

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\nThe Glass Menagerie as Expressionist Theatre\n

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\nThe first lesson in a three-part unit has high schoolers examine The Glass Menagerie as an example of expressionist theatre. After reading a short article about expressionism, scholars list expressionist techniques in Tennessee...\n
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