Section Info: FMT-240SD-01

Course Title: Intermediate Courses in Production and Practice: 'Scene Design for Theater and Film'

Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024

Term: Fall Semester 2024

Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce the history, art, and techniques of designing sets for theater and film. Students will learn how sets have been created in the past, how a designer approaches a script, how a designer's work supports the director's vision, how it illuminates a production for the audience, and what methods and techniques are used in the execution of the process. Students will have the opportunity to exercise their visual imaginations, through the creation of designs for a script. They will engage in script analysis, research, collaborative discussion, sketching, technical drawing, model building, and related techniques and methodologies.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Vanessa James	413-538-2832	vjames@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024	Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	THEA - Rooke Theatre	104	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Lab; $50 materials fee. Any additional design supplies and materials are the responsibility of the student.

Course Tags
FMT0003	FMT-PR: Production/Performance	This course has been approved to count towards the Film, Media, Theater major in the Production/Performance area.

Cross-listed Sections

FMT-240SD-01 Scene Design for Theater/Film

ARCH-203-01 Scene Design for Theater/Film

Course Availability
Section status: Closed	Capacity: 16	Enrollment: 16	Available: 0	Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.