Notes For Final
June 2, 2009
Intro to Design
Company Hierarchy and Static categories (Howard)
Metapatterns (Volk)
The Door (Aronson
Images versus Sign (States)
Spectacle/media (Aronson)
Metaphor (Borges)
The exchange of agency. “All the world is a stage.” Use of complex metaphor, “stopping my woods” is good e example.
George Tsypin's use of steel and glass (Aronson – the stage is a dangerous machine)
Ideograph (Taymor)
a gesture that relates of character, ie the Lion King
Mechanics (Taymore)
The double image: showing off the mechanics (Taymor - the book “playing with fire”)
TED lecture series on YouTube for Taymor lecture
Space in space (Svoboda)
The ceiling the floor the back wall and the prescinium arch
The formal theater (rob wilson)
“Absolute Wilson” book
Anti-illusionistic design (Appia)
Color projection color recession
blue recedes, red projects
1.2.3. point perspective
Complementary colors
Forced perspective
check out stampede video on blog
Light and shadow
1. specular 2. specular-edge transfer 3. shadow-edge transfer 4. shadow.
Motivated lighting: Identifying the source
In your lighting design you want to have a clear indication of where the lighting is coming from on stage.
Elevation section and plat
Ecstatic truth (Herzog)
Check out blog, Minnesota declaration: sometimes you have to stretch the truth in order to tell what the truth r really is.
Theater of the oppressed (Boal)
is it theater, or is it not theater.
Collaboration
Ishioka's creed: revolutionary, original, timeless
Look at her work and reflect on how her work could be these three
things.
Richard Foreman's set design (Aronson)
“What god is not” he makes the conventions of theater much
more.
"Absolute Wilson" is a video- it's on reserve for this class.
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