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Notes For Elementary Stagecraft
Notes For Elementary Stagecraft
MODULE 5 09/17/2015
From Elevations to the actual design, Construction Drawings are the next
step into scenic design.
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CHAPTER NINE:
SCENIC PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES
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Technical Production
Broadway Theatre
a. Personnel hired for single production
b. Designs are constructed and finished by professionals
c. When the scenery is finished from studio to stage
Technical Director
a. Plans production
i. Elevations, designs, calendar, estimations of cost, time
allocation, etc.
Woodworking
a. Extensive scenic construction
i. Butt, Lap, Battened Butt, Milter, Dado, Halved, Notched,
Scarf, Moritse and Tenon (Open= Exposed;
Closed=Unexposed), Doweled joints
Welding
a. Metal is melted so that it fuses
b. Oxyacetylene Welding
i. Oxygen & Acetylene: hot and open flame
c. Welds
i. Butt, Flange, Lap , Fillet
Two Dimensional Scenery
a. Hard Skin
b. Soft Skin