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SET DESIGN LESSON 5, VIDEO 1 Exterior sets are a little bit more difficult to make realistic for several reasons. First, you are probably inside a theatre unless the play is being performed at an outdoor site like the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. Its easier to establish the willing...

SET DESIGN LESSON 5, VIDEO 2 Imagine the opening of your play takes place on a road approaching a realistic Medieval castle, and your characters wish they could escape their depressing peasant lives. Theres a blackout and when the light comes up, they are on a road leading to a...

SET DESIGN LESSON 5, VIDEO 3 Many plays and especially musicals have multiple set changes called for in the script, and few educational theatres have the kind of facilities and budgets to recreate the original Broadway production. Here are a couple of things to consider when faced with the problem...

SET DESIGN LESSON 5, VIDEO 4 Hello. Im Kurt Knoedelseder, and over the past 35 years, I have served as the director of theatre arts at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, De Smet Jesuit High School, and the Missouri Fine Arts Academy. During that time, many of my students have...

SET DESIGN LESSON 6, VIDEO 1 For hundreds of years set designers have used backdrops to help create environments on stage that help tell the stories of ballets, plays, and musical productions. Can you see where the drop meets the stage floor in this picture of a set from Hamlet?...

SET DESIGN LESSON 7, VIDEO 1 Were really fortunate to have one of Bobs and my former students here with us today. Daniel Lanier is a theatre teacher and a set designer. Welcome, Daniel. Thanks, Marty. Whats your objective as a set designer? A set designer needs to support the...

SET DESIGN LESSON 8, VIDEO 1 Now that you have a good idea what a finished set looks like, how to design an interior set, and the needs of the set youre going to design, lets get started. A designer needs to communicate to the director, technical director, carpenters, and...

SET DESIGN LESSON 9, VIDEO 1 By now you should have a ground plan that has been approved by your teacher. Now make a copy of your ground plan leaving out all the furniture and other set props. This is the ground plan that will go to the carpenters. On...

SET DESIGN LESSON 9, VIDEO 3 After you have all the pieces of your set cut out, its time to start making the furniture. If you want, half-inch scale furniture can be bought at hobby stores like for dollhouses and train sets. A less expensive way is to make your...

SET DESIGN LESSON 9, VIDEO 4 The next step is to choose your color scheme. Color theory can be a course unto itself. Since we dont have time in this program to go deeply into color theory, we advise that you experiment with colors on a separate piece of posterboard....

SET DESIGN LESSON 10, VIDEO 1 As we said earlier, if your group has a set of flats that you use for every show youll probably need to work those flats into your design. If youre building some or all of your scenery from scratch, youll need to draw up...

SET DESIGN LESSON 12, VIDEO 1 Were extremely fortunate to have award-winning set designer Scott Neale join us to examine how to approach designing period sets. Scott has designed sets at the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, The Goodman Theatre, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Repertory Theatre...

SET DESIGN LESSON 13, VIDEO 1 Were very fortunate to have Jim Kronzer here with us today. An exceptionally talented set designer, who designed the set of Midsummer Nights Dream for the Repertory Theatre of St Louis. The scenic artists are putting final touches on the set, preparing for opening...

SET DESIGN LESSON 14, VIDEO 1 Were here with the The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis with the director and designers of what many people consider to be the greatest play ever written, Shakespeares Hamlet. Were very fortunate to be able to discuss production concept with the director of Hamlet,...

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND REINFORCEMENT LESSON 1, VIDEO 1 Hi. Im Bob Fowler, and this is my wife Marti. Wed like to welcome you to this second edition of Audio for Theatre, Sound Reinforcement, and Design. Were really fortunate to have two outstanding professionals writing and co-hosting this program with...

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND REINFORCEMENT LESSON 2, VIDEO 1 So what does a sound system look like in a professional theatre? Lets take a look at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of The University of Missouri St. Louis. There are two outstanding performance spaces here,...

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND DESIGN LESSON 3, VIDEO 1 Sound design is broken down into two main areas: sound effects, abbreviated SFX, and music. Sound effects can be anything from a barking dog, to a full battle. Music is exactly as it states: incidental music or music played by a...

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND DESIGN LESSON 4, VIDEO 1 Choosing a program in which to edit and create cues is a very important, but personal, decision. After using several programs I decided to use Adobe Audition, because it can be used in both Apple or PC format, and, it is...

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND REINFORCEMENT LESSON 1, VIDEO 1 Hi. Im Bob Fowler, and this is my wife Marti. Wed like to welcome you to this second edition of Audio for Theatre, Sound Reinforcement, and Design. Were really fortunate to have two outstanding professionals writing and co-hosting this program with...

AUDIO FOR THEATRE: SOUND REINFORCEMENT LESSON 2, VIDEO 1 So what does a sound system look like in a professional theatre? Lets take a look at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of The University of Missouri St. Louis. There are two outstanding performance spaces here,...