THEATRE 540
Ralph Funicello
SCENE DESIGN II
FALL 2013
Home: 760 632 5540
email: rfunicello@mac.com
Cell
760 613 5541
COM 107
M, 3:30PM – 6:10PM
Objectives of Course:
 To introduce the advanced scene design student to scripts requiring a variety of stylistic
approaches to design problems
 To develop an approach to set design through the process of model making
 To broaden the student’s knowledge of dramatic literature and to strengthen analytical
skills
 To increase the students design/artistic vocabulary
 To develop greater presentation/communication skills
Objectives Will Be Met Through:
 Class projects on a variety of design assignments
 Class presentations of Design
 Class discussions of assigned scripts
 Class discussions of 20th Century Designers
 Class work on sketching, model-making, and drafting
Texts:
 There are no required texts
 Play Scripts:
ART by Yasmina Reza
BURIED CHILD by Sam Shepard
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
MACHINAL by Sophie Treadwell
Materials:
 Model making supplies
 Drafting supplies
Grades: Project grades will take prior experience into consideration
DESIGN PROJECTS
60%
CLASS DISCUSSION/PARTICIPATION
40%
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CALENDER
Date:
M 8/26 Discuss Syllabus and first project Art. Discuss theatre models.
M 9/9 Art – Theatre model & 3 Preliminary Art models due.
M 9/16 Art - Finished model due. Assign Buried Child.
M 9/23 Discuss Buried Child, Discuss Realism in sets and plan/ furniture placement,
Discuss rough sketches /size, scale, materials.
M 9/30 Buried Child Research, plan and rough sketch due for discussion. View Slides of
Ralph’s models.
M 10/7 Buried Child rough models due. View Slides of American Designers
M 10/14 Buried Child - Finished model due. View Tanya Moiseiwitsch DVD.
Assign Macbeth.
M 10/21 Discuss Macbeth Research due. Discuss Unit sets for Shakespeare. Thrust stages.
M 10/28 Macbeth Rough Sketch/ Model due for discussion .
M 11/4 Macbeth Revised Model/ scene by scene story board
11/11 Veterans Day - No Class
M 11/18. Macbeth -Final Model due
Assign Machinal
M 11/25 Machinal Research due. Discuss Constructivist Art
M 12/2 Machinal Rough model
M 12/9 Machinal Due
M 12/13 Final 10:30am-12:30pm Discuss.
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