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Design, Dracula, Y11 course

SET design – dracula

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IDENTIFY the pros and cons * advantages and disadvantages* of these sets for ‘DRACULA‘

For EACH you MUST:

  • Describe in 2-3 lines what you see (use correct terminology)
  • What spaces are being created (a single location or multiple locations?)
  • Consider how the MOOD is being created (you can reference LIGHTS as well)
  • Consider how easy/difficult it would be to move from one scene to the next.
  • YOU WILL HAVE ABOUT 7 mins per picture

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Design, Dracula, Y11 course

costuming ‘dracula’

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How would you costume:

  1. Mina
  2. Lucy
  3. Dr Seward
  4. Jonathan Harker
  5. Nurse Grice
  6. Count Dracula
  7. Renfield
  8. Orderly Drinkwater
  9. Dr Goldman
  10. Vampire Brides

Create a Mood board like the one below for your ‘given’ character.

You need 1 A4 sheet of images and 1 A4 sheet of notes.

Notes can include:

  1. Any quote about costume from the play.
  2. Any use of a costume item or reference to it in the text
  3. COLOUR SCHEME – perhaps symbolic.
  4. Justification: Reference the social STATUS of the character, their WEALTH, their JOB,
  5. What the AFFECT you want to have on the audience is.

DUE IN 1ST LESSON AFTER HALF TERM HOLIDAYS

Dracula, Exam Help, Y11 course

LIGHTING

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Link to hi Tech production

The aim of this lesson is to:

  • Understand the principles of lighting design
  • Know what lights create what effects
  • Build subject specific vocabulary
  • Give opportunities to be creative using a light simulator

Task 1: In Pairs, discuss for 1-2 mins ‘why lights are needed in theatre?‘ (Shakespeare didn’t use them!)

(10 mins) Create a Venn diagram. Label one side Functional lighting and the other Emotive lighting (effects designed to cause/reflect an emotion)

Some of your ideas might exist in the middle – the cross-over.

E.g: A sunset scene is functional in that it tells us the time of day, but it may also convey an emotional response to the audience or reflect an emotion present in the text.

Task 2: (20 minutes) Finding out what lights do (basic)

Click on this LINK for the lighting simulator

http://scenicandlighting.com/lightlab/

Set every light to zero (slide to the left).

Using 1 slider (light) at a time, see what effects are created by using:

  • A cyclorama light
  • Side lights
  • Top lighting
  • Foot lights
  • Specials
  • High Side Gobos

*Take photos or screen shots of each to help memorise and put into a word document.

Task 3: (20 minutes) Create a ‘lighting state’ for

  • a woodland scene at night (Midsummer Night’s Dream – by Shakespeare.
  • a romantic sunset scene outdoors
  • a spooky castle

*Take photos of each to help memorise or screen shot it .

In your Journal, you need to be able to:

  1. State the scene – location – time of day.
  2. Explain where lights are positioned, angled, focused and any colour choices, special effects (gobos?)
  3. Justify why you used these (in terms of the effects you wish to create eg: time / place / mood.)