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Sound and Music for the Theatre, 4th Edition
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Sound and Music for the Theatre, 4th Edition

by Deena Kaye, James LeBrecht
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
398 pages
13h 14m
English
Routledge
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5  The Sound Plot, Magic Sheets, and Other Paperwork

All designers utilize paperwork to help them organize, remember, develop, present, and produce their ideas. Scenic and costume designers use drawings to conceptualize and share their ideas. Lighting designers develop a light plot, which is a scale drawing that shows where all of the lighting instruments are located in the theatre, how they are plugged in, and what color filter is used. Similarly, sound designers use various types of paperwork, to assist them throughout their design process.

One should note that we use the word “paperwork” as a catchall phrase to represent drawings, charts, lists, and any kind of readable organized information. But paperwork doesn’t always have to be printed ...

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ISBN: 9781317690573