Overview

Investigate the role of set design in storytelling in this short online course. Discover how the use of space impacts our storytelling and visual communication in performance. Learn how to extract information from a dramaturgical source, expanding your artistic influences through research as you collaborate with like-minded peers. Through active discussions and activities, discuss themes, concepts, visual styles and the process of realising a design as part of a creative team.  

Led by specialist NIDA teaching artists who are currently working in industry, undertake a foundational creative design process to expand your ideas into a simple design concept.  Gain insight into the materials required when creating model boxes and techniques for resolving designs. Learn how to communicate your vision in a supportive and inclusive community. Transform your vision into your own design concept and present it with confidence to your class. 

Components

• Explore the collaborative nature and dynamic interplay between various creative stakeholders in the design process. 
• Develop skills in visual storytelling and how to articulate ideas through key elements of the set  
• Learn methods for extracting key dramaturgical elements from a dramatic text to understand the production’s requirements, themes, and mood 

Level

This course is Beginner level.

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