8. Provide Visibility
Reveal shapes and forms
Provide a focus onstage and create visual compositions
Assist in creating mood and reinforcing style
Help establish time and place
Establish a rhythm of visual movement
Reinforce the central visuals image, establish visual information , or both
9. Visibility
• Ability to see what is happening
on stage. Making sure viewers
can see the characters, unless
this is the specific intent.
• Indoor play, floodlights are used
in most of scenes.
• “Tone” setting and costumes.
10. Visibility Cont
• Spotlights produce a potentially
tightly focused light.
• Spot light used when Nora talking
to herself during the scenes.
11. shapes and forms
• Shape onstage, particularly
three-dimensional stage
elements- from side, top, and
behind.
• Small focus of light on the actor
who’s talking.
• A little dim inside of the house,
try to make a shadow of the
sets .
12. Visual Compositions
• During Act I, when everyone
were out of the house except
Nora. Nora was start talking
to herself. I will use spot
light, clearly showing the
audiences that Nora was the
only one who’s talking by
that time.
• Act III, everyone attended on
customs party. I will enlarge the
lighting area, and make a bigger
compositions.
13. • Doll house is a play with
happiness family setting,
with some dark moments. • I will combine red and
orange of light to present
the Christmas atmosphere
for the opening of Act I.
• Red color light when
Nora mad and argue
with her husband.
• Low intensity, low bright, dark
colors when Nora describing
when Raj offering the loan to
her.
• In most scenes, the light
will be naturally bright to
provide the clear visibility.
• Modern Style
14. Time and Place
• Conflict most happened during
afternoon and night, example
will be when Nora go to Terry’s
office during the Christmas Eve,
and the costumes party.
• For afternoon I will combine red
and orange again, showing the
sunset.
• For night a little blue added into
the light for afternoon to show
the night time.
• I will use natural bright as the
background color and add a
little bit warm color to illustrate
they are located indoor.
• 21 century, recent years
15. Rhythm of Visual Movement
• This is a slow action play,
nothing move quick during the
scenes.
• Overall, slow shift of light during
the play, this will help the lighting
goes smoother.
• Spot light will come up
suddenly when I design
for Nora talking to
herself.
16. • We designed for 3 sets change,
but the living room will be the
central set for our play
• Again, the light will be naturally
bright and add a little bit warn
color to provide the clear visibility
and highlight the central image –
Living Room.
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Setof the play:
The sets of this play is almost the same for all 3 acts.
The majority of the play has taken place in the living room, some
are in the kitchen. Since the kitchen is a open kitchen, it can be
seen from living room.
Thus, the kitchen and the living room and dining place are all
together.
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Set of the play:
Now, it’s already know that the set for the play will be like a normal
living room connected to a dining place and a open kitchen.
Therefore, the stage can be divided into three parts:
Living room
Dining place
Kitchen
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Beforedividing:
• the three sides stage( left, back, right) need fake wall to pretend the
stage is a flat.
• The stage looks like a box without the front and top side.
• This is also related to the name of the play. The set of the play looks
like a dollhouse toy that little kids play.
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How to divide?
How to divide the stage into three parts?
the three sides stage( left, back, right) need fake wall to pretend the
stage is a flat.
Although the stage need to be divided into three parts, the majority
of the stage will be designed as the living room of the flat.
And kitchen and dining area will be together and occupies a small
portion of the stage.
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Centerof the stage:
Since the living room will be the most important set. It
needs to be portrait in the center of the stage.
The best way to show this is by placing a leather sofa and a
chair sit in the middle of the stage.
Audience will immediately know this play is about families,
or the characters in the play are in one family just by looking
at the sets.
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Other objects in the living room
Other objects that mentioned in the plays are build-in
bookshelf, a cloth hanger and Christmas tree and gifts.
The book shelf can be placed next to the wall, on the right
side of the stage and more specifically, in between the two
doors on the right wall. There will be photos and decorations
placed on it
The hanger will placed on the left of the stage, next to the
front door that is off the stage.
And the Christmas tree and gifts can be placed on the right
corner on the back of the stage.
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kitchenon the stage:
the kitchen can be placed on the left back corner of he stage.
In order for audience to understand it is a kitchen, only put
the representative objects on stage.
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kitchen on the stage :
Things mentioned in play that represent kitchen :
A granite countertops with cherry cabinets. This doesn’t have to be
really large. It will be placed perpendicular to the back wall of the
stage.
Refrigerator can also represent kitchen well. It can be placed next
to the counter tops. Facing audience.
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Doorson the stage:
There are many doors in this house. However, the space on
stage limited. It can only show two, which are the study door
and the back door.
These doors are very important. Actors used these doors as
exits and entrances.
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Doors
Back door will placed on the right wall. Audience.
And the study door is very close to the back door. It on the
same side of the wall, but little in front.
Audience may see the study door clearly, however, they might
not notice the back door because it not stand out.
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Doors:
The front door is also very important.
However, according to the direction of the play, the front door
is off stage. Thus, the “imaginary” door can shown to the
audience by marking the entryway which is on the left side of
the stage at the very front.
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Background:
The background of the stage is also important and the black
and white photograph that hang on the wall had really
involved in the conversation.
Since the picture is so important, the picture needs to be
obvious and make sure all audience are able to see the
picture.
The picture needs to place on the back wall of the stage,
facing to audience, thus there is no confusion.
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Special notes for set:
Photos on the bookshelf: photos of wedding and children.
Picture on the wall: black and white, about three by five feet,
of a very pregnant Nora and Terry hugging her.
The room is fashionably and tastefully decorated.
