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THE
DESIGNERS
 PART FOUR
Scenic Materials
   & Props




Chapter 6
The Design Process

• The construction of the scenery
  begins.
• Flats
          • Platforms and wagons
             • Stage machinery
       • Drapes, torms and teasers
• Set pieces (furniture,etc ) - set decoration
                   • Props
      Scenic materials
Scenic Materials
            The stage “flat”
Constructing platforms
Backdrops, cycs and scrims
• Backdrops painted by scenic artists
• Cycloramas – “cyc”
• Scrims
Scrim for “1776”
Backstage




The fly rail

Black scrim
Backdrop
Wall of light
CLYTEMNESTRA
Gobos on textured background
CLYTEMNESTRA
Gobos on textured background
CLYTEMNESTRA
Gobos on textured background
CLYTEMNESTRA
Gobos on textured background
Early set shift methods
Deus ex machina          ekkyklema
• Draperies and soft goods
Austrian drape
Grand Drape
Masking
  Used to keep the
  audience from
  seeing backstage

   Legs & Borders
Teasers & Tormentors

       “rags”
Cut out drop, backdrop, cyc
The 4th wall removed Sherlock Holmes
The Box Set
4th Wall removed “1776”
“1776”
“1776”
Props
Short for “properties”
• Set props
   • Furniture; chairs, tables, sofas,
     lamps
• Set dressing
   • Rugs, drapes, books on shelves
• Hand Props
   • Items that the actors handle
Set Props
Hand props

• Is it a prop or a costume?
           • Glasses
         • Handkerchief
         • Walking stick
             • Purse
            • Parasol

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