jessamarie6
Member
Two quick ideas assignments/lessons I've liked for design.
-Have the students pick out a number of magazine and newspaper photos (fashion photos are especially good), then ask the students to use shadows and highlights to identify the location of the light sources, which is the key and which are the fills.
-Give students a script and have them go through to identify the requirements for one or multiple areas of design. They should be able to make props lists, set requirements, Costume plots, Key lighting info and cue locations, and sound cues. This should be the first step in any design process, and I find that many young technicians come in not knowing how to spot the applicable details in scripts (or worse only reading the stage directions and missing important components of the script altogether).
-Have the students pick out a number of magazine and newspaper photos (fashion photos are especially good), then ask the students to use shadows and highlights to identify the location of the light sources, which is the key and which are the fills.
-Give students a script and have them go through to identify the requirements for one or multiple areas of design. They should be able to make props lists, set requirements, Costume plots, Key lighting info and cue locations, and sound cues. This should be the first step in any design process, and I find that many young technicians come in not knowing how to spot the applicable details in scripts (or worse only reading the stage directions and missing important components of the script altogether).