ABSTRACT
Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design - from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|46 pages
Theatre and Design
chapter Chapter 1|8 pages
The Nature of Theatre
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
The Designer's Goal
chapter Chapter 3|6 pages
Two Key Elements of Any Design
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
The Designer's Expressive Tools
part 2|22 pages
Deconstructing the Creative Process
chapter Chapter 5|6 pages
Thinking about Thinking
chapter Chapter 6|8 pages
Idea Generation
chapter Chapter 7|6 pages
Defining the Creative Process
part 3|30 pages
Putting Theory into Practice
chapter Chapter 8|10 pages
Creative Process/Design Process
chapter Chapter 9|6 pages
Fallacies about the Design Process
chapter Chapter 10|12 pages
Essential Activities for the Designer
part 4|138 pages
Unpacking the Design Process
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
Comprehend the Nature of the Design Problem
chapter Chapter 12|24 pages
Gather Inspiration
chapter Chapter 13|26 pages
Invent Solutions
chapter Chapter 14|26 pages
Develop the Work
chapter Chapter 15|18 pages
Present the [Best] Solution
chapter Chapter 16|4 pages
When You Get Stuck
chapter Chapter 17|28 pages
Dracula, a Case Study
part 5|26 pages
Putting it all Together