Project #4: SCENE DESIGN

1. What exactly does a scene designer do?

2. Why is it important to emphasize that a stage setting is not a real place, but that it is a symbol of real place?

3. Explain why a good ground plan and stage setting needs to function primarily as an obstacle course?

4. What is an acting area? How many acting areas should a stage setting have?

5. Why is it important to set primary set pieces away from the walls of the setting?

6. What is the advantage of using diagonally arranged set pieces?

7. What is the difference betweem a raked and a full front setting?

8. Why is it advantageous to use foreground objects in stage settings?

9. What is an architect's scale? How do you use one to create a ground plan?

10. What scale are we using to Project #4? Why?

11. What are psychological areas, and why are they important to actors, directors, and designers?

12. What are positions of power in a given ground plan? Why are they vitally important to designers, directors, and actors?