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It's All in the Details Lesson PlanIt's All in the Details Lesson Plan
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Brigham Young University
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6th - 12th
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Visual & Performing Arts
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It's All in the Details

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Designers communicate their vision for a set through a progression from thumbnail sketches, to drawings, to renderings. After examining a series of renderings, class members begin work on their own rendering paying particular attention to line, color, and the physical characteristics of the materials they will use.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

design, elements of design, dramatizations, sets

Additional Tags

visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Display models of thumbnail sketches, drawings, and renderings of a set to demonstrate the progression

Classroom Considerations

  • The sixth in a 10-lesson theater arts unit on set design
  • Instructors should have available models of the entire design process from sketches to scale model sets

Pros

  • The opening activity underscores the importance of crafting an accurate representation that depicts the mood and spirit of the design concept

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a

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