Chapter 11Considerations for Productions with Moving Scenery
Designing Moving Scenery
The first rule of designing a multiset production is that the shifts from one location to another must be quick and smooth and that this is a more important consideration than the design of the individual sets themselves. This concept requires the designer to think about the production with different priorities. How should the show move? Can the scenery be designed to move in a way that complements the design idea? In the case study of Into the Woods at the end of Chapter 8, the desire to have the trees move in a grounded, lateral way, as opposed to flying in and out, led to the key decisions that shaped the design.
How a production moves is both an aesthetic ...
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