Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Av Lynne Porter, Theatre Program at Fairfield University) Porter, Lynne (Resident Designer and Director

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Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-12-15
Mått191 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt1 012 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor318
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138831957

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Lynne Porter is Resident Designer and Director of the Theatre Program at Fairfield University, where she has been teaching, administrating, and making theatre since 1995.She is also the Academic Director of Creative Life Residential College, a sophomore experience focused on inspiring the creative impulse. She regularly designs for the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where she is an Affiliated Artist of the Ensemble. She also designs with the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project in New York and various theatres from Maine to Georgia. Lynne is an associate member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, as well as the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She holds an MFA in scenic design from Indiana University.

Introduction Part One: Theatre and DesignChapter 1: The Nature of TheatreChapter 2: The Designer’s GoalChapter 3: Two Key Elements of Any DesignChapter 4: The Designer's Expressive ToolsPart Two: Deconstructing the Creative ProcessChapter 5: Thinking About ThinkingChapter 6: Idea GenerationChapter 7: Defining the Creative Process Part Three: Putting Theory into PracticeChapter 8: Creative Process/Design ProcessChapter 9: Fallacies about the Design ProcessChapter 10: Essential Activities for the DesignerPart Four: Unpacking the Design ProcessChapter 11: Comprehend the Nature of the Design ProblemA. Play ReadingB. Embrace the Production LimitationsChapter 12: Gather InspirationA. Play AnalysisB. Visual ResearchChapter 13: Invent SolutionsA. [Good] Design IdeasB. [Good] Design ExpressionsChapter 14: Develop the WorkChapter 15: Present the [Best] SolutionChapter 16: When You Get StuckChapter 17: Dracula, a Case Study of a Complete Design ProcessPart Five: Putting it All TogetherChapter 18: Collaboration Chapter 19: Personal FactorsChapter 20: Designers of DreamsAppendix: Supplemental Exercises and InformationA. More Play Reading ExercisesB. More Play Analysis ExercisesC. More Design Expression ExercisesD. More Development ExercisesE. More Presenting the [Best] Solution ExercisesF. More Courage, Commitment and Focus ExercisesG. More Introvert/Extrovert ExercisesH. Design Conferences UnpackedSuggested ReadingSoftware ResourcesEnd NotesProduction Credits

"I have read other design books and, while they are valuable, [Unmasking Theatre Design] is the first that I read from start to finish. The language and topics flowed wonderfully and I was fully engaged in what I was reading. I feel very strongly that [this] book is an asset to me as a designer and a resource that I will suggest to other designers in the future." - M.K. Hughes, Southern Illinois University"Your book completely changed my perspective and approach to design, and I think this is going to do wonders for the way that I teach, and the way my students learn." - Julia Fisher, Theatre Teacher at Saint Martin de Porres High School