Monday, January 24, 2011

Principles and Elements of Scenography

4 principles in Scenography

  1. Space / Place
  2. Time/ Duration
  3. Delivery/ encounter
  4. Structure/ Progression

4 elements of scenography

  1. Set
  2. Light
  3. Costume and make up
  4. Sound

Elements in principles of scenography and why.

Space/Place

1. Set

Set is use to locate the scene and complete the scenery of theatre. Audience will see the set first when they enter the place.

2. Light

Light will give situation to the play and focus to the space. The color of the light will attract audiences.

3. Sound

Sound not really important in place because audience will focus on what they see first.

4. Costume

Unnecessarily for place and set is more important.



Delivery/ Encounter

1. Sound

Sound play important role in delivery to give the mood to actors and audiences. To deliver the moment in the perfect time should have the good audio and suitable music.

2. Light

To get the feedback from the audience, light also play the important role in the play. Focusing on something or to the situation will make the message delivery easier.

3. Costume

From the costume, audience will know what happen to the actors and the time/eras.

4. Set

Not important as sound because to give the moment, audience will attracts to sound compared to set.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks Hidayah for these elements around scenography. Very interesting.
    Is scenography your job ?
    http://www.nosoutils.blogspot.fr/
    frédéric Limonet (france)

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  2. Welcome. I'm taking theatre course and i did some research.

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