Overview

This topic develops the skills and knowledge required by directors, dramaturgs, and designers to create compelling and meaningful visual storytelling. Students will consider how meaning in performance is curated within a frame, whether the fourth wall of the proscenium arch stage, the film frame, or the digital screen. This curation … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to

  • Provide students with an understanding of the ways in which spatial and compositional dynamics lie at the heart of visual storytelling

  • Develop students’ awareness of the ways in which other visual and non-visual elements such as lighting, costume and sound/music may compliment the core spatial and compositional performance artefact

  • Develop skills in deploying visual elements to create mood, convey emotion, and support the dialectic of the performance

  • Enhance students’ capacity to effectively communicate their creative vision to actors and creative collaborators

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Evaluate the ways visual and non-visual elements create mood as well as convey emotion and meaning within a range of performance spaces, both live and digital
2.
Evaluate the ways spatial and compositional dynamics enhance and communicate meaning within a range of performance spaces, both live and digital
3.
Integrate spatial and compositional dynamics to create an original interpretation of a new or extant text in either live or digital form
4.
Synthesise visual and non-visual elements to create an original response to a new or extant text in either live or digital form

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Requisites information

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