Theatre Design Lab: Applied Scenography

Catalog description

Theatre Design Lab: Applied Scenography provides students the opportunity to develop an applied scenography project into a portfolio-ready design deck. In this advanced level course, each student’s project will serve as the framework for honing their ability to transform written source materials into 3D live experiences and to articulate visual, spatial and temporal concepts to audience members, collaborators, and clients. Through coursework, students will examine how their design process evolves as co-collaborators and realities shape their ideas. Students will deepen their analysis of texts, broaden their research, expand their ideation process in order to fine-tune meaningful selections, practice model making- digital and/or physical, learn computer-aided drafting via Vectorworks, and solidify their virtual presentations. Under the guidance of the course instructor, each student will select their individual design project (in scenery, costumes, or lighting and sound) from the following three choices: a production they are working on outside of class; a production within Theatre Arts, if approved; or a large-scale musical, opera, or themed environment unrealized production.