Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

Lynne (Resident Designer and Director Porter

ISBN 10: 1138831956 / ISBN 13: 9781138831957

Edité par Taylor & Francis Ltd Dez 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer's Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity
• Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dez 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1138831956
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781138831957
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 235 L x 191 H x 0 P (en millimètres) 235 millimètres de largeur par 191 millimètres de hauteur par 0 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1012 grammes

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Synopsis

Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

À propos de l'auteur

Lynne Porter is Resident Designer and Director of the Theatre Program at Fairfield University, where she has been teaching, administrating, and making theatre since 1995.She is also the Academic Director of Creative Life Residential College, a sophomore experience focused on inspiring the creative impulse. She regularly designs for the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where she is an Affiliated Artist of the Ensemble. She also designs with the Guerrilla Shakespeare Project in New York and various theatres from Maine to Georgia. Lynne is an associate member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, as well as the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She holds an MFA in scenic design from Indiana University.