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    Wainstein, STAGE DIRECTING A DIRECTORS ITINERARY

    Chapter 8
    The Visual Collaboration
    Working with Designers

    Realizing the visual concept


    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.
    6.
    7.
    8.

    Producer hires the director and designers.


    Director and designers research
    Informal meetings
    First design meeting (sometimes by phone)
    Work on sketches, drawings, thumbnails
    Second design meeting
    Refine the plans
    Final design meeting present models

    Collaboration

    Types of Collaboration
    Designer has no ideas
    Designer forces their ideas on
    director
    Collaboration

    Meeting with designers


    Build on informal discussions that
    precede the first design meeting

    SOMETIMES, these informal meetings


    are brainstorming sessions
    to get the juices flowing.

    Design Meetings
    Informalmeetings in hallway, over
    coffee, by phone

    First Design Meeting


    Called by Production Manager or
    Producer
    Director shares concepts
    Everyone discusses their working
    ideas
    This is a free exchange of ideas

    Words to remember

    Dont be afraid to speak


    up. Once a design is
    finalized, changes are
    hard to make.

    Second Design meeting


    Designmers present their sketches. Director
    and designers agree to revisions and a date is
    set for a final meeting.

    HINT: The director should compliment the


    designers for their work. Be honest. Ask for
    what you need.

    Final Design Meeting


    Final renderings, models are presented
    Deadlines for changes are set
    Designers move onto the
    implementation phase.

    From Design to Tech


    Rough sketches and thumbnails

    RENDERINGS

    MODELS

    Ground Plans

    Elevations

    BUDGET
    The TD, sometimes the PD budgets the
    materials and labor needed to build
    the show

    Drafted Plans

    Schedule

    Building process

    LOAD-IN

    Technical Rehearsals

    Realizing the Costume


    Design

    Thumbnails of
    Characters

    Research

    Final Renderings

    Rent, Pull, Shop or Build

    Process work
    Measurements
    Fittings
    Costume Parade

    Publicity Shots

    The run

    LIGHTING
    Create the plot
    Hang and focus
    Final plot
    Focus
    Write cues
    Set cues
    Run

    CHANGES
    Changes must
    be soundly
    reasoned,
    affordable and
    able to happen
    given the time
    and labor
    available. It is
    easier to change
    something if it

    Final thoughts

    Respect your collaborators


    Understand their work and process
    Visit the shops frequently
    Keep channels of communication
    open

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