1. THE
DESIGNERS
PART TWO
How to begin?
Chapter 6

2. The Design Process

3. The Design Process
• Read the Script – analyze
• Conference with the director
• Decide on stylistic approach
• Research – historical, otherwise
• Begin Sketching

4. Research
• Victorian living rooms
Design for A Dolls House

5. Stylistic Approach
Does the script lend itself to a realistic “4 th wall
removed” approach?
Or would a metaphoric or stylistic approach be
more interesting?
What about:
•Elmer Rice’s THE ADDING MACHINE with ticker
tape.
•ALL IN THE TIMING made of gears from the
inside of a clock.
•A very modern HAMLET

6. Realism - 4th Wall Removed
1776

7. Realism vs Symbolism
Metaphor
&
stylistic
designs
The Adding Machine

11. All in the Timing

12. HAMLET

13. HAMLET

14. HAMLET

15. HAMLET

16. HAMLET

17. trompe l’oeil
• Means “eye deceiving”

18. trompe l’oeil