Module Information

This module aims to examine, in the context of the practical implementation of a performance event for a public audience, selected principles and methodologies of scenography pertaining to a range of production practices. The module is offered in close conjunction with TP24940 Theatre Production Project and TP28240 Multimedia Production Project, and students will be working on the design for the production projects, which will be performed in departmental performance venues or appropriate site-specific locations.

Building upon the studies of semester 1, students will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to engage a range of scenographic working practices appropriate to a diversity of departmental productions.

Working in small groups and under the supervision of the course tutors, students will have the opportunity to both observe and execute collaborative design processes, and share responsibility in bringing these processes through to realisation in performance.
Individually, students will generate and collate documents of research, representation, communication and process pertinent to specific practices of scenography in production. These documents will be organised as folios of material, and should function not simply as records, but as both the instrument and embodiment of thought in which they contextualise their experience through a developed and sensitive understanding and analysis of appropriate performance theories, compositional vocabularies and methods.

The module is delivered through a structure of seminars, tutorials, production meetings and practical work. The research tasks, reading and the precise content of each teaching component are tailored by the course tutors to the specific demands and opportunities of each production project created in conjunction with TP24940 Theatre Production Project and TP28240 Multimedia Production Project.

Working in project groups, students will be allocated roles appropriate to the scenographic requirements of the project (for example, set design, costume design, lighting design, sound design or if appropriate any combination of these roles).

The project will involve working for at least 16 hours per week during the semester, during which students will apply appropriate compositional and design strategies to developing the project, while also contextualizing their work in relation to the work of relevant theatre practitioners, scenographers and artists.

Students will be expected to undertake and apply independent research to develop individual scenographic solution to feedback into the collaborative process. All students on the module will also take part in five tutorial feedback sessions in which a member of staff will aid them in reflecting on the progress across the range of projects and the differing scenographic procedures and requirements involved.

Students will keep a working portfolio documenting significant developments and challenges they have encountered in the process and will use these to reflect on the project. Throughout the project students will be expected to work responsibly, constructively, creatively and safely with fellow students, solving problems as they arise and undertaking the specific challenges inherent to the nature of their project.