Anyone working on a set design project for the first time will find this book indispensable— amateur and semi-professional set designers. Whatever project you are working on, designing the set will be completely trouble free when you have this manual to guide you. This manual will give you an excellent understanding of scenery, sets, models, the principles of design, painting scenery, and arena design. Throughout this manual, the
author provides up-to-date hacks that will save you much wasted materials and hours of work; working out sightlines before you design the set, choosing among different kinds of sets, constructing flats, making a truly realistic model, constructing a convertible set, working with a color chart and tone solid, spatter painting, adding
touches, and much more. When technical terms are used in this manual, all are defined with extreme clarity: raked set, cyclorama, set axes, flats, flippers, masking pieces, etc.

The author’s 110 drawings and diagrams are especially helpful floor plans of sets, audience views, reverse views, different scene designs on the same basic set, and similar material.

In this manual you’ll learn:
® Introduction to set and scenery
® Standard set Units
® Softwall and Hardwall flats
® Hanging Units
® Set pieces
® Platforms and Wagons
® Properties and set dressings
® Set, hand, and stage Properties
® Fabrication methods
® Script Interpretation and breakdown
® Elements of scene design
® Floor plan and set backgrounds
® Virtual sets and digital boards
® How to build a professional career in set design