Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

Content:

1. What is the best way set designer can enhance a play?
2. Know how to translate their vision into real life.
3. -Bringing the set to life is just as important as designing it
    -Translateing is one of the biggest steps in design
    -Step includes scale drawings, construction of scenic model, and so on.
4. "Stage Directions: The nomadic world of theatre design" Article by Liam Doona
5. Study more in depth the actual process that takes place to bring the set designer's vision to life.

Update!

So this last research check, Friday February 22, I read some amazing articles. I haven't read some really interesting ones in a while now. They were very insightful and helped me understand theatre set design a bit better. But not only did they do that, they also provided me with some information that I could use for my Science Project, something I don't really find in articles for research check. I hope I can run into more articles like this for future research checks. Oh, and thanks to these articles I discovered some online Theatre   set design magazines.

                       

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way a set designer can enhance a performance?

2. When designing a set, what are some factors that you take into consideration when designing?

3. I read that when designing a stage it is better to try to stay as close as to the real place where the play is taking place in order to help people identify it as a real place, what is your opinion on this? Would you agree or disagree and why?

4. When a theatre is limited to supplies for constructing a set due to budget, what are some other ways a set designer can enhance a performance?

5.When designing is there a point where the set design can be too much? For example distracting from the actual performance instead of enhancing it.

6. I have heard that many professional theatres in Broadway are starting to use projections during their plays to enhance a play. Do you believe that these projections help with enhancing the play?  Why or why not.

7. From research that I have done, many people believe that projections will take the place of actual sets that will allow for actual locations to be projected onto stage to create the setting in order to enhance the play instead of having to build it. Would you agree with replacing hand crafted scenes with projections instead and why?

8. Do you believe that projections enhance a play more than a hand crafted scene or would it really depend on the genre and the play?

9. What is your personal preference when it comes to using projections or hand crafted scenes? Would you choice one over the other or would you use both to enhance the quality of the play if you could. Why or why not?

10. Apart from just the set itself, what would you say are other things that help a set designer enhance a play?

11. With my previous interview, the person I interviewed believed that the best way a set designer can enhance a play is by making sure they know everything there is to know about the play. What is your opinion on this?

12. If a set doesn't really require a set, how can the set designer enhance a play? Are there other ways they can contribute?

13. In order to help enhance a play would knowing who the audience is and what they tend to like help and why?

14. How does knowing the context of a play help a set designer with helping enhance a play?

15. How can a scenic designer make sure that their design truly works with the play's production?

16. Would you say that knowing how to work and communicate with others in the theatre is essential for a set designer when trying to help enhance a play?

17. Would a set that is different of that of other productions of a play, have an important role in helping with the enhancement of the play? Why or why not?

18. As the set designer when designing the set do you have to work a lot with the costume designer to help come up with a set that fits? This is something I read in one of my research articles, about how the set designer many times uses the costumes to help create a set for the play apart from just the script itself.

19. Does the characters personality help a lot when trying to come up with the perfect set that could possibly help with the enhancement of the play?

20. Do you know of other ways or of other resources that could possibly help me answer the first question that was asked?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Content:
1. What is the best way a set designer can enhance a performance?

2. The set designer should know the plays very well, know everything about it.

3.
 -The analysis step is one of the most important and crucial parts a set designer goes through when designing. It's the step where they learn about the play.
- Knowing the play helps you with the concept that you should go with for your design.
- A play's context can be interpreted in many ways,so lots of research needs to be done on the play to see what set design fits best for the production of the play.

4. The source that helped me prove this answer is justified is my third interview with Mario Montenegro.

5. I plan to continue my study of answer 2 by doing some more research on the process that a set designer goes through to get to know the play.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

CONTENT:

(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component.
For this independent component I plan on working extra 30 hours of service learning above the required mentorship hours.

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement.
I plan on working an extra 30 hours of mentorship at the theatre to gain more experience within my topic. 

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?  
Through this independent component my job is working behind the scenes on the set both constructing and chosing props to fit the play.