Main Set Design
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I originally wanted to keep to the same time period that Shakespeare had Twelfth Night in, however that didn't really click with me and i just wasn't feeling the idea any more. So I then thought well what if I did different time periods and each character represented the different time periods. That didn't click with me either, so I finally came up with the idea that they are in a art museum and the characters that get enveloped into the museum are Viola and Sebastian. This idea really stuck with me because it ties in my two passions which is art and theater.
The biggest artistic challenge i encountered was figuring out my concept. I wanted a clear contrast between Olivia and Duke Orsino, through the set as well as their genres of art. For example Duke Orsino and all the people who are in his court are going to be pop art people, and for Olivia's court their going to be more classical paintings. It also was challenging to find ways to tie the two together to make it cohesive and I saw that both sides had white in them. So to tie them together and since white is a neutral color it made sense. My artistic process was to first do a sketch which was of my original idea for the classic Shakespearean time, then once that was done I moved onto the drawing which is done in prisma color. I had to use a ruler for most of it and erase a lot to try and get the right angles and lengths. Once it was outlined for where everything was going to be I started to draw in my second idea for the different time periods, then halfway through i changed it to be the art museum idea. When I was finished with the main set I moved onto drawing in the stage and the shadows, then moved onto the back of the set where the cyclorama, which is a white curtain that you project light onto was and the colors that were going to be there. Finally I was done with it and very proud of it. Challenges: -Blending the prisma. -Having white prisma on dark brown paper. -Coming up with the concept. -Erasing the prisma. -The shadows. -Making it look like a set. Successes: -The color combinations. -The Coke bottle high lights and shadows. -The designs on the walls -Having it turn out exactly how I wanted it. -The stairs. Overall my learning experience has been so far that it's very hard to design a set, like you can't just pull an idea out of thin air. It takes a lot of time to come up with the idea and how it's going to look. I've also learned that white prisma color is very hard to blend seamlessly on dark brown paper which I will never do again and also yellow, was very hard as well. Though through all the struggles, it came out really cool looking and I can't wait to actually build it and paint it! I feel like I definitely grew as an artist and not just for using art materials but also as a technical theater artist because I've never really been interested in set design or building before. I honestly thought that the set is just what the show says it is or what the director wants, but it really isn't, you can make it any way you want it to. I've also experienced using more prisma colors which I don't normally use that much of, so I learned that blending is super hard to do with them. I now know more about prisma colors as well as designing a set. I can take my knowledge of set designing with me to college and can let other students know that it's not as simple as it looks. |
Main Set Sketches
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These are my in progress pictures for the original set design I had in my head, then just changed all of it completely.
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