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Theatrical Scenic Design: Creating And Presenting A Professional Portfolio, Isabella Pellino
Theatrical Scenic Design: Creating And Presenting A Professional Portfolio, Isabella Pellino
Senior Honors Projects
The Kennedy Center for the American College Theatre Festival is a regional and national conference where students can compete against other students with their Acting, Directing, Stage Management, and Design skills. Students present scenes, participate in workshops, and present their designs from shows their universities produced in that year. I attended this year’s “KCACTF Region 1:New England” festival from January 30th to February 4th (having been selected to present in the Design Technology Exhibition) and presented a scenic design I created for the URI Theatre production of Body Awareness in April of 2017.
Theatre is a fast-paced industry, and artists …
The World Of The Cat's Table: Literature Through Production Design Analysis, Andrea J. Johnson
The World Of The Cat's Table: Literature Through Production Design Analysis, Andrea J. Johnson
Senior Honors Projects
The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje is a rich piece of literature that has a diverse set of characters confined to one pivotal location, a ship. Just as the novel builds a world around its characters, in this project I attempted to build a space around immersive design choices.
Production Design is a visual response to analytic reading. By taking a written piece or concept and creating the physical/visual atmosphere for the work, a production designer’s job is to create the overall look and tone of a creative production, be it for a film, play, or museum space. This is …
From Script To Stage: A Costume Designer’S Perspective, Laura M. Gifford
From Script To Stage: A Costume Designer’S Perspective, Laura M. Gifford
Senior Honors Projects
In the process of designing the costumes for a show, it is important to understand the psyche of each of the characters. The completion of thorough research can give valuable insight into the characters, as well as details of the setting of the play. A designer then takes this information, in the form of photographs, journals, period documents, and modern analysis and combines it to achieve a unified vision of the play’s environment. They must then work with the director and other designers to present this vision to the audience. This semester, I had the opportunity to explore this process …