Set Design Notes:

Perspective vs. Floor/Ground Plan

Set Design Musts:

• You are designing for 2 Groups

  • • Crew / Director

    • Director / Actors​

• Perspective Designs  - Director / Actors to help them see the "Big Picture"

  • • Audience's POV

      1. Start at the Floor and go Up

      2. Draw the Box the Furniture/Object "Lives" In

• Floor / Ground Plan - Director / Crew to help them see "Where Everything Goes"

  • • Bird's Eye View

      1. Stuck to the Ceiling Looking Down

    • Needs to be to Scale

      1. So you can know exact sizes and exactly where it goes on the stage

Scale Basics:

• Start in the Original Size

  • • We Measure in Feet (')

      1. Either going to Scale (Change) to LARGER or SMALLER

• Measurement Marks

  • • Feet - '

    • Inches - "

    • Colon ( : ) Means "Is Equivalent/Equal To"​

    • Always more Inches then Feet

• Our Common Scales

  • • 1'​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ : 1"

    • 1' : 1/2"

    • 1' : 1/4"

    • 1' : 1/8"