ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is about identifying and talking about how design affects an audience. It is addressed to designers and film and television makers, to those just starting out and those with experience, but it is from the point of view of the audience. The book criticises those work and evaluates its usefulness, and it supplements it and offers new and different ways of thinking. It then deals with film and television history, and with the criticism of set design. An awareness of any of these histories or of the approaches is invaluable to anyone wishing to move into this field of academic study and is useful to those who only wish to make more informed decisions in their own film and television designs.
