Set design: from text to scale model

City Lit

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course explores the skills and processes required to take a play and create a fully finished design and scale model based on that text. The choice of play could either be a personal project, a play that a learner has already begun designing or always wanted to do, or a play allocated by your tutor. Either way, you will learn the details of text analysis and how to develop design ideas from this analysis. Then you will be shown how to build a scale model box of a theatre space. After this preparation you will then go on to develop the design for a set within this theatre model. You will have model-making skills taught throughout to enable you to complete a fully finished design model.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Do effective text analysis and focussed research- Begin to develop a design process that works for you- Model different finishes using a variety of materials- Design and make a fully finished scale model from a selected playtext- Identify the importance of the scale model as a tool to the design process.

City Lit provides most of the basic artist and modelling materials and some specialist materials, but you may needto buy or provide some other materials dependent upon the structures within the models that you make. You will beprovided with a personal workbook (A3 cartridge) and loaned a copy of 'Model Making for the Stage' by Keith Orton.

You will be taught through demonstrations and personal experimentation that will be led by your tutor in group and one-to-one contact. You will be given guidance that suits the level of ability that you have.There is an expectation that some preparation and model making work will be undertaken in between the taughtsessions to help support the design and model-making more fully.

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Subjects

  • Set Design
  • Theatre
  • Design
  • Model Making
  • Play

Course programme

- How to do effective text analysis
- Research in all its forms
- Developing an initial design concept
- Working with a director
- The different stages of a design model
- Making a theatre model box from theatre plans
- Developing and completing a finished design model in 1:25 scale
- Creating scale finishes such as brick, wood and marble
- The importance of the scale model as a tool to the design process.

Additional information


You could choose to study more about model making, then VX328 Set Design Model Making for Beginners could be adjusted to accomodate a more experienced approach. Also, VX107 Introduction to Costume design is another good choice as designers in theatre are frequently asked to design both set and costume in the professional theatre.

General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00.
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