The Due Date for your design concepts binder is October 3. Please make a note of this.
NEITHER of these assignments will be accepted late! You must turn them in on the due date or your will not receive credit.
Last week we discussed color theory and The Dramatic Imagination. At this point you should be finished reading the book and preparing notes for your essay. My suggestion last week was to ask and answer a series of questions about the book and Robert Edmond Jones' views:
How have Mr. Jones' views impacted your understanding of the design process?
What about the way theatre works has changed since Mr. Jones wrote?
What has remained the same?
How can you apply his views on design to your craft?
Can you compare and contrast the world of theatre that Mr. Jones describes with your own? How? Be specific.
Jason Foreman has provided me with a framework for the assignment as well it is as follows:
The Dramatic
Imagination essay
Your essay must be typed, double spaced, stapled together,
and 3 to 4 pages in length.
Select a theatrical design area (scenery, lighting, or
costumes) and discuss three of the (scenic/lighting/costume) designer’s
important roles and functions in the creation of theatre.
Include your interpretation of Robert Edmond Jones’ writing
of the design area you select.
Address these questions:
· What did Jones think was the importance of
scenic/lighting/costume design in the process of creating theatrical
design?
· How did Jones think the 3 design areas worked into
creating the art of theatre.
· What was innovative about Jones’ writings?
Your paper should be concise, well written, meaningful and supported by details. The expectation is that you will be writing using one of the accepted college style manuals. My preferences are the MLA Manual, the Chicago Style Manual or the APA Manual. MLA is more geared to the fine and applied arts.
This week we will finish covering the principles of design. I know I said that I would try not to cover new material on matinee days, but I'm realizing this is not really possible. I am making the prezis available in the links menu.
Finally, on Thursday we will discuss the design process and talk about the poem collage project:
POEM COLLAGES (PROJECT #2)
Objective: To express mood and emotion using the elements of
design; to increase awareness of your intuitive abilities. This project is intended to be a
creative exploration that focuses on uncovering design possibilities through
accidental and undirected experimentation. This is an example of the type of conceptual, preliminary
experiments that designers will create during the design process.
You may select your own poem, some suggested poets include:
Kenneth Patchen, E. A. Robinson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickenson or E.E.
Cummings. You need to have your
poem approved before you begin.
Spend some uninterrupted time thinking about the poem that
you have selected. Try to
visualize the world of the poem and allow your imagination free reign. Note the emotions that your poem
evokes. Take note of any shapes, forms, textures, colors, smells, lines, space,
value, quality of light, and the like that are evoked by your poem. Write some brief associative notes
about the environment of your poem; try to be as descriptive as possible. Create a list at least 10
adjectives describing the world of your poem.
You will create a collage, an abstract composition using
found images and objects that represent your visual interpretation of the poem.
The collage can have as many 3D elements as you wish; this shouldn’t be a
simple “cut-and-paste-pictures” onto paper project. The more descriptive your selected elements are, the more
successful the collage will likely be.
Carefully consider the use of each of the elements of design: LINE,
SPACE, SHAPE, FORM, TEXTURE, COLOR and LIGHT in the selection of your collage
elements and the creation of your composition. Each collage piece should be “designed” so that your choice
of elements supports the “environment” within your poem.
Written Analysis: you will also turn in a ½ - 1 page
written analysis explaining how your collage is evocative of your poem;
describe how your composition (and your choice of elements and use of
principles) is reflective of the “environment” from your poem, describe how
your collage communicates the 10 adjectives
Schedule
Thurdsay 9/27 Discuss
collage project
Tues 10/2 Select
poems, work on collages, and bring 2 adjectives
Thur 10/4 Work on collages 10 Adjectives Due;
Tuesday 10/8 Work on collages in class, work day.
Thursday 10/10 Collages and Written Analysis due, collage presentation
