Stage Design 3

Subject is not scheduled Not scheduled

Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Department

The subject provides Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre

Contents

This compulsory elective course is designed for students who are interested in gaining a more detailed insight into the work of a scenographer, especially for puppet theatre. This includes a deeper understanding of the specifics of the visual component of theatre, including space, materials and their use, lighting, costumes, masks, and puppet design. The content of the third semester builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in the previous courses Scenography 1 and 2 and is closely related to the work on the final artistic realization in the main course Theatre of Animated Forms 3. The aim of this course is, on the one hand, to lead students to accept their dependence on other components of production and, on the other hand, to bring new and inspiring solutions and resources. We strengthen continuity with modern visual art and its new space-time forms.

Mode of study: Individual consultations focused on the development of stage design and visual form of the final artistic project combined with individual and independent work on assignment.

Learning outcomes

In the field of knowledge students:

analyse and investigate mutual relations between theoretical and practical aspects of studies as well as make use of that knowledge for own artistic development while creating the final artistic project;

analyse the main space characteristics and their specifics;

are able work with light and sound in theatrical space.

In the field of skills students:

develop their own artistic personality; create, realize and express own artistic concepts;

improve skills needed for their realization during preparation of performance;

create construction of a visual script and understand its purpose and essence;

use wide range of skills enabling realization of their own artistic concept.

In the field of social competencies (C), students:

are able to use imagination, intuition, emotions, creative thinking and work in an effective way in order to solve problems, possess the skill of flexible thinking, adaptation to new and changing circumstances;

are able to present, advertise their own project in an approachable way by using known elements of information technologies;

prove creativity by making individual, independent works, by collecting, analysing and interpreting indispensable information, formulate their own ideas with the use of critical argumentation; are determined by internal motivation and organization of own work.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Craig, Edward Gordon. On the art of the theatre, Franc Chamberlain, 2008.

Brockett, Oscar G., Mitchell, Margaret. Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States, Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, 2010.

Příhodová, Barbora, Ptáčková, Věra, Rybáková, Simona. Český divadelní kostým / Czech Theatre Costume, Institut umění – Divadelní ústav, 2011.

And other literature recommended on the base of the specifics of the final artistic realization.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Credits are awarded based on the completion of a long-term assignment and its evaluation. Completing the course requires attendance at individual consultations with a maximum of three absences per semester and involves a large amount of independent work.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans