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The scenographer visually liberates the text and the story behind
it, by creating a world in which the eyes see what the ears do not
hear. Resonances of the text are visualised through fragments and
memories that reverberate in the spectators subconscious,
suggesting rather than illustrating the words.
Pamela Howard - What is Scenography 2002
Design Principles
AIM(S)
To develop students' understanding and application of the principles of
visual communication and scenography.
To develop the rigour of the students conceptual analysis and creative
exploration.
To develop students' abilities to apply design aesthetics to scenographic
practice.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
In marking your work on this module you tutor expects you to:
Apply the language of the visual artist and designer with appropriate
knowledge and understanding;
Critically examine written material from the viewpoint of the designer,
responding to its artistic challenges in terms of action, atmosphere and
dramatic potential;
Access and apply visual research as a basis for design exploration and
discussion;
Analyse the role of design in the context of theatre practice;
Organise your knowledge, through library, information and other creative
resources;
Formulate a coherent set of design objectives for a given brief or location.
If you ask most people who walk in and tell you they want to be
lighting designers what kind of weather we are having whats it
like outside? Half of them wont know how to describe it, if they
remember at all, they simply dont know how to see.
Tharon Musser
MODULE OUTLINE
Week beginning September 28th
Monday 28th
Session 1: How we access the interesting parts of what our brains can do.
Class Session: What is design? Why study design?
Left and Right brain.
Poems and condensed imagery
Thursday 23rd
Tutorials you must sign up for one - 30 minute tutorial there is a sign-up
sheet in Moodle. Please bring your process workbooks/portfolios.
Location: PA002
ASSESSMENT
Coursework
Practical Projects and Process Workbook: 100%
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Please note that there are a number of additional books to those listed below
in the library that relate to lighting, scenography and design. Please be
courteous of others in the class when checking out books, as it is not possible
to have multiple copies of all books. Remember to act as a team, share
information and resources. Think about how you use research to inform your
process.
Workbooks should include a bibliography of books you found helped you.
Essential
Benedetto S.D An Introduction to theatre design, London:Routledge, 2012
Berger A.A. Seeing is Believing: An Introduction to Visual
Communication, California: Mayfield Publishing, 1989.
Howard, P. What is Scenography?, London: Routledge, 2001.
Morgan, J. & Welton, P. See What I Mean?, London: Edward Arnold, 1992.
Payne, D. The Scenographic Imagination, Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Recommended
Arnheim, R. Visual Thinking, London: Faber, 1969.
Brohan, T. Avant-Garde Design 1880-1930, Cologne: Taschen, 1994.
Callen, A. Techniques of the Impressionists, London: New Burlington, 1987.
Dimmack, M. Art Techniques for Students, London: Macmillan, 1969.
Dupont, J. Painting in the Seventeenth Century, New York: Skira, 1957.
Gillette, J.M. Designing with Light, California: Mayfield Publishing, 1989.
Graver, D. The Aesthetics of Disturbance: Anti-Art in Avant-Garde
Drama, Ann Arbor: Universityof Michigan Press, 1995.
Hockney, D. Off the Wall: Hockney Posters, London: Pavilion, 1994.
Honnef, K. Andy Warhol: Commerce into Art, Cologne: Taschen, 1993.
Muller, J.E. Rembrandt, London: Thames & Hudson, 1968.
Newman R, & Fowler, D.M. Space, Structure and Form, London:Brown &
Benchmark, 1996.
Pool, P. Impressionism, London: Thames & Hudson, 1969.
Pye, D. The Nature and Aesthetics of Design, Bath: Herbert Press, 1978.
Taylor, B. The Art of Today, London: Everyman, 1992.
Walker, J.A. Art in the Age of Mass Media, London: Pluto, 1996.
Yenwaine, P. How to Look at Modern Art, London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.