THE 2000 Lecture 4: Videos Set Design
13 Feb 2017
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Reading the script and talking to the director. Focus on message and subject of the place. Gets inspiration and ideas from magazines and photo albums. Becomes more crystalized by the main message of the play. Lots of skills that are applicable and different areas in visual arts. Is there anything else you care to share. Trying to represent it naturally with a cartoon aspect. Set decoration is the most important design element. Use of stage blood is where is goes off the deep end. Takes place in an unspecific but small town in massachusetts. Setting is in a house living room and kitchen. Starting point is lucy grew up in a house very much like the set. Lucy brought several photography books of working class people. Described lots of details down to the yellow color of the kitchen. This place was probably turned into an apartment 30 years ago. More enjoyable to do musicals, operas, design can be broader gesture.
