STUDY PROGRAMME
Scenography

AFAM CODE
ABPR22

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Set design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Set design

CREDITS
10

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

The course provides the students with the necessary professional tools to design a set for performing arts and exhibitions, enabling them to deliver comprehensive projects designed for contemporary audiences. Over this academic year, the students will devise scenes and costumes for a ballet.

This course is made of a single module of 10 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Analyse a theatrical text

• Develop a personal creative vision of the show starting from the text

• Be aware of the scenic space in relation to actors and technicians

• Create sketches, maps, sections, and executive drawings

• Development of a moodboard

• Development of an idea for scenes and costumes

• Sketches for scenery and costumes

• Creation of scale models

• Creation of maps, sections and executive drawings using CAD software applications

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Over the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects to be developed.

• Front lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other multi-media material

• Exercises and revisions

• Laboratories

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Oral exam

• Comprehensive projects

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

Further books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.