Set Pieces
Used to add levels to stages.
What are Platforms?
The MOST IMPORTANT function of a set
What is Help tell the story?
The step of design that allows for the designer to see the set from an overhead point of view.
What is a Set Plot?
This color scheme can evoke passion and relating feelings.
What is Monochromatic?
This made the biggest difference in SET DESIGN in the 20th and 21st centuries?
What is Technology?
Still pictures, slides, or moving images shot on video or film.
What are Projections?
This set design is beneficial to those who are working on a tight budget.
What is a Minimalistic Set Design?
The first thing a designer comes up with.
What is an Original Concept?
Photo 1: The color scheme represented in this photo.
What is Monochromatic?
The most important thing to the Ancient Greeks coming to see a play.
What is to see and hear a play?
Photo 2: The set piece pictured.
What is a Drop?
What is Abstract?
This step of set design can include models of the actors on the stage to show the size of the set pieces in relation to the actors.
What is a Set Model?
Hues which are directly opposite of each other on the color wheel that naturally look great together.
What are Complementary colors?
During the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe, theatre-goers could see a play in these 4 places.
What are Churches, Traveling Wagons, Town Square, and Castles?
Photo 4: The prism shaped set pieces pictured.
What are Periaktoi?
This describes a realistic set design.
What is mimics the natural world as closely as possible?
The final step in Set Design.
What is tech rehearsals and opening night?
Photo 5: The color scheme represented in the picture.
What is Multi-Color?
This was used in the late 1800s and set off the many changes that were to come.
What is Electrical Lighting?
The difference between a Cyclorama and a Scrim.
What is Cycs are large white canvases mostly used for washes of light and Scrims are loosely woven drops that can be lit from both sides. (Transparent when lit from behind; Opaque when lit from the front)
The 5th step in the process of Set Design
What is Construction?
The color scheme that features colors next to each other on the color wheel.
What is an Analogous Color Scheme?
The Ancient Greeks used this kind of set design.
What is Minimalistic?