Design Doodles
Name: _____________________
Objective: SWBAT create Design Doodles to define the major parts of the script to analyze the changes
in subtext or essential action for a script in order to understand the arc of the design.
Directions for Design Doodles:
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Copy or Type the section of the play from which the design will be developed.
Mark the sections that work together and the changes between them.
Paste or Print out the sections on separate pieces of paper, index cards, etc.
Reverse each section and on the flip side develop the subtext of the script, relationships of characters,
colors, lines, pictures or sketches of item(s) that inspire your design motif without further historical
research at this point.
5. List elements you might use to create your design — along with questions for research.
This is a TOOL for YOU — so BE CREATIVE! Use different colored paper or markers to reflect the mood
or tone of each section, cut your paper in shapes to reflect the section or images in the section, and/or
add images or pictures to your sections. Creativity helps in creating a design! Doodle away!
Example: See notes below as you begin Design Doodles.
SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell.
Priest’s cell in Medieval church / cathedral
Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO
FRIAR LAURENCE
So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
That after hours with sorrow chide us not!
ROMEO
Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Colors: pink marble, grey, pick up
Pink colors in lighting —
Happy marriage scene — things seem to be OK.
Brown of Friar’s robe. What are R & J wearing???? Do they
match?
Vertical lines, old, weathered stones,
Plants around from Friar’s herb collection? Tapestry for color?
What would be on the tapestry? Dark, underground — or light and
airy?
Enter JULIET
Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:
A lover may bestride the gossamer
That idles in the wanton summer air,
And yet not fall; so light is vanity.
Entrance of Juliet: light change? Open up scene so lovers can
meet? Look at word choices in section: light, gossamer, summer
Air —— how do we get this in scene of a medieval cathedral???
JULIET
Good even to my ghostly confessor.
She says “good even” —does this mean it is night time/ early evening? How does light change in a cathedral?
FRIAR LAURENCE . . .
Is there any foreshadowing????!!!
Is it with light? Juliet’s costume?