Set And Props

Question 1

How do you structure a 30 mark on set ?

Answer 1

Intro
- outline give elements
- reference the genre of the play and how it supports this Eg doors for farcical entrance
- stage performance orientation

Para one skills of a designer
- colour, period, style, size and link all to the meaning communicated to the audiance

Para 2 specific props and scenic items
- specific to the extract and link to functionality and actor interaction
- justify with meaning to audiance with themes and key moment

Conclusion
- few sentences at most

Question 2

What would you position in centre stage ?

Answer 2

A mahogany computer desk with a green leather top
- this would be embroidered with a gold leaf design around the edges of the frame
- it would have brass handles
- 25 degree angle towards audiance
- wealth and status juxtaposes run down nature of police building

Question 3

What are the flats of the set ?

Answer 3

Colour: a light grey-blue pigment with flats at upstage centre and at 25* angles down stage

Water stained yellow at the corners where the flats meet
- connotes lack of funding and renovation causing audiance to question how police have money for desk
- consider themes of bribery

Question 4

What would be underneath the desk ?

Answer 4

An electorate Persian rug
- expensive and connotes wealth again creating a visual juxtaposition within the aduaince mind

Question 5

What would the doors look like ?

Answer 5

Dark brown wooden doors with frosted glass panels
- this would exacerbate farcical moments and build up the tension on stage at points
- typical of an office building connotes location and atmosphere

Question 6

What sign would you hang up to make this recognisable to a contemporary British audience ?

Answer 6

Metropolitan police sign and logo placed above each door
- connotes location as a police building within London
- theme of establishment vs revolution

Question 7

What would you have in the centre of the flat at upstage centre ?

Answer 7

A window
- behind this would be a skyline of the Thames and London from a 3rd story
- further connote location as being in London and the location of the office being on the third floor

Question 8

How would you signpost the location of the office ?

Answer 8

Above one of the doors I would have a green fire hazard sign which says third floor