SCENE DESIGN 411 SPRING 2004

INSTRUCTOR: CARL H. LEFKO

OFFICE: 166PT (DRAFTING RM)

PHONE: 831-5012

OFFICE HOURS: BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Text: Designing and Painting for the Theatre- Pecktal

Week #1

• Introduction
• Review Perspective
• (Read The Dramatic Imagination by Robert Edmond Jones

Week #2

• Grids finished -Review The Dramatic Imagination
• Review perspective
• Scenic Metaphor - discuss

Week #3

• Rendering Exer
• No Class
• Rendering Exer

Week #4

• Scenic Metaphor due
• Problems in Set Design - Discussion of Play
• 3 sketches due

Week #5

• Revised Sketches
• Floor Plan due
• Revised floor plan

Week #6

• wk Perspective
• wk. Perspective
• Perspective due

Week #7

• Transfer Perspective
• wk. Rendering
• wk Rendering

Week #8

• Rendering #1 due
• Discuss models and Play
• No Class - SETC

4-12 Spring Break

Week #9

• Concept Due
• No Class USITT
• No Class USITT

Week #10

• Paper on Scenic Designer and 3 sketches due
• Revised sketches due
• wk. Floor plan

Week #11

• Revised Floor plan
• Final Floor plan due
• wk. Model

Week #12

• wk. Model
• wk. Model
• Discuss project #3

Week #13

• Model due - (select final project #3
• Concept due for project #3
• Sketches for profject #3

Week #14

• wk Floor plan
• wk Floor plan
• Floor plan due - wk Perspective

Week #15

• Perspective due
• Work Rendering
• Work Rendering

FINAL EXAM MAY 1^ST 2:00 PM

REQUIREMENTS:

EACH STUDENT MUST COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS:

1) Project #1 - a scenic design for a dramatic play to include

a design concept, sketches, floor plan, perspective and a

rendering.

2) Project#2- a scenic design for a dramatic play to include

a design concept, sketches, floor plan and a model.

3) Project #3 - a scenic design for a dramatic play to include

a design concept, sketchers, floor plan and a rendering.

project #3 is due on the exam date.

4) 5 page paper on a Scenic Designer

Projects are due a the beginning of the class period on the day the project is to be completed. All late projects will be reduced by one letter grade.

Attendance: 3 cuts maximum

-5% for each cut over the 3rd cut

"F" after 7 cuts

University Honor Statement

By Accepting admission to Radford University, each student makes a commitment to understand support, and abide by the University Honor Code without compromise or exception. Violations of academic integrity will not be tolerated. This class will be conducted in strict observance of the Honor Code. Refer to you Student Handbook for details.