Set Design - Performing Arts - Production Role Resources - LibGuides at Loreto College Ballarat

Loreto College Set Design Resources

Set Design Resources on Google Drive
Documents include maps for the MMC and set movement requirements for Jane Eyre.
Audit Checklist - Set
Past Production Workbook Folder for Jane Eyre

Set Design Process

An Introduction to Technical Theatre by Sanders - Open Textbook Library
Several modules of his open access textbook cover topics related to set design, management and construction. Click on the orange PDF button and then select the modules from the index to download them.
Read, render, realize: step-by-step guide to set design - Dramatics
An 8 step guide to help develop your own process for set design, from reading and analyzing the script through to technical rehearsals, opening night and performances.
A set design from start to finish - Set Design and Tech
Blog post on the process of set design. This website also has a lot of other blog posts on set design that may be of interest.
Set Design - Blood's course materials
The goals of set design, the aesthetic and practical tools, the set design process and historical conventions of set design.

Staging ideas: Set and costume design for theatre by Stephen Curtis
Call Number: NF 792.025 CUR
ISBN: 9780868198774
Publication Date: 2014

Stages

11 Dramatic virtual tours of stages around the world - Google Arts & Culture
All the world's a stage ...
The Virtual Theatre
The Virtual Theatre is a web-based 3D Set Design tool for the Theatre Arts Classroom. Normally a subscription based resource, so use the Free Trial option.

Working in Set Design

American Theatre Wing 2015. Working in the theatre: Scenic Design. Online video, 6 August 2015. Duration: 27 mins.

Online exhibition: The role of the theatre designer - National Theatre
Under the term Theatre Designer, this online exhibition looks at what it takes to create a visual, spatial and aural interpretation for a production via sets, costume, sound etc. Focuses on the process and impact of theatre design using three productions.

Set Tour with Designer David Korins

Set tour design with David Korins: Beetlejuice the musical 2019. Online video, 28 October 2019. Duration: 8 mins.

Behind the Scenes series by the Sydney Opera House

A series of five short videos outlining the step by step approach to the creation of a set. It uses the production of Emil and the Detectives as example.

Sydney Opera House 2020. Behind the scenes episode 1: Set design research. Online video, 11 March 2020. Duration: 4 mins.

Sydney Opera House 2020. Behind the scenes episode 2: Creative development in set design. Online video, 11 March 2020. Duration: 4 mins.

Sydney Opera House 2020. Behind the scenes episode 3: Set design principles. Online video, 11 March 2020. Duration: 4 mins.

Sydney Opera House 2020. Behind the scenes episode 4: Set design model box. Online video, 11 March 2020. Duration: 4 mins.

Sydney Opera House 2020. Behind the scenes episode 5: Building the set. Online video, 11 March 2020. Duration: 4 mins.