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Date
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Topic
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What's Due Today
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1 Sep
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Welcome and introduction.
What is design? What is design for theatre?
Hands On! Overview / Discussion
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8 Sept
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Costume Design Process Overview
A Visit to a Small Planet discussion
I Dream Before… discussion
Read Like a Designer
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Read: A Visit to a Small Planet
Read: Chapter 1: The Playscript
Read: I Dream Before…
Due: I Dream Before project
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15 Sept
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Research Like a Designer
Costume History Overview
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Read: Chapter 2: The Production
Read: Chapter 3: Research
Due: Research Project 1
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22 Sept
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Sketches + Renderings: Anatomy + Croquis
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Due: Research Project 2
Read: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Read: Chapter 4, Preliminary Sketching and Color Layout
Bring your art supplies!
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29 Sept
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Sketches + Renderings: Methods + Technique
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Read: Chapter 5, Final Sketches
Due: Sketchbook Project
Bring your art supplies!
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6 Oct
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Organize Like A Designer: Process + strategies
Discuss: Wine in the Wilderness
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Due: Read Wine in the Wilderness
Due: Wilderness 1 + 2
Bring your art supplies!
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13 Oct
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NO CLASS – FALL BREAK!
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Rest! Great artists take breaks. <3
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20 Oct
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Prepare for Crit
Crit: Wine in the Wilderness Project
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Due: Wilderness 3
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27 Oct
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“Good Designers Direct, Good Directors Design”
Conceptualize like a Designer (or a director!)
Discuss: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea
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Read: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea
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3 Nov
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ELECTION DAY
In-Class: Dontrell Group Project (Collaborate Like A Team)
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Due at top of class: Dontrell Research
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10 Nov
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Crit/Share: Dontrell Renderings
Discuss: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Review final project guidelines
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Due: Dontrell Project
Read: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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17 Nov
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Wardrobe, Wig, Costume Shop, and Other Jobs in the Field
Final Project Check-In
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Read: It’s all about Holding Hands and Stitching Hems
Read: Chapter 6, Pre-Production
Read: Chapter 7: Production
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24 Nov
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Collaborate Like A Designer: Design as collaborative artform
Financial Realities from the Field: What is the state of this art?
Final Project Conference/Check-In
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Bring your art supplies!
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1 Dec
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Final Project Conference/Check in
Early Bird Presentations
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Bring your art supplies!
Last week to submit your Hands On! Assignment
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8 Dec
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Last Class! Crit/Presentations
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Due: Final Project
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