I have story boarded my new technical skills developed, in a visual way that can be created as the production plan of the final book. I am able to see from this plan what the layout and the progression the book will form. Being constantly aware of the industry i am creating the book for I have referenced back to classical theatre publications while also injecting my own personal developmental flare yet more importantly being constantly aware of my target market. From the initial forming of the book I feel its all coming together into the aimed outcome of the project, in experimenting with the graphic layout and design I feel I have been able to design a visual that is unique in the context of theatre publications but that also creates the intended experience for the viewer each element being throughly planned have given me confidence in the final creation of the book.
Cover
Story Synopsis
Cast Information
- Head shots & Cast information- after talking to Sharon about how i should structure this she suggested its a fictional play there for chose your ideal cast! Who would you envisage would play each character and there background.
Layout & Graphic Design
After looking a many programmes and theatre brochures i began to see a very coherent graphic theme between them all, square black and white headshot's accompanied with text to the right of the image of just below. Having decided to do some research on why the head shots within many of the programmes are black and white and it there was a reason for this i can across and article suggesting that it was outdated and many companies have a colour version of the head shot but for the purpose of theatre they are always presented as black and white. This seamed odd to me, the programmes are so bright and enticing and the people bringing the programme to life on stage are portrayed in a dull, flat black and white image. As my aim is to bring theatre and the way the programme can be published to the for front i was to explore other ways of displaying the cast information in a way thats innovative and just as interesting as the actors and actresses themselves.
Above programmes, left to right, top to bottom: Les Miserables, Rebecca, Oklahoma, King Lear.
These are a few examples of layout that you could use to bring interest to the Headshot cast information, although the writing needs to be clearly read and Headshot not obstructed, other graphic designs layout could add, such as adding graphic lines around the face or using a cut out and some of the location photography. It is also important to keep the other pages around the chapters coherent taking elements from these layouts and using them loosely to tie the book together.
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Practise Layout
Play Acts
''An act is a part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax and resolution. A scene is a part of an act defined with the changing of characters.
To be more specific, the elements that create the plot of a play or any story, and divide a play into acts include the exposition, which give information, setting up the rest of the story. Another is the inciting incident, which starts all of the action that will follow. Going along with the inciting incident, the major dramatic question is formed; this holds the rest of the play. The majority of the play is made up of complications. These are the things that change the action. These complications lead up to the crisis, this is the turning point. Most of the time, at this point, the major dramatic question has been answered. Finally, there is the resolution. This is the end of the play where everything comes together and the situation has been resolved. This leaves the audience satisfied with the play as a whole. These more specific elements of plot in a play are the main things used to divide a play up into acts and sometimes scenes.
The Roman theatre was the first to divide plays into a number of acts separated by intervals. Acts may be further divided into scenes; in classical theatre each regrouping between entrances and exits of actors is a scene, while later use describes a change of setting.
Modern plays often have only one level of structure, which can be referred to as either scenes or acts at the whim of the writer; and some writers dispense with firm divisions entirely. Successive scenes are normally separated from each other in either time or place; but the division between acts is more to do with the overall dramatic structure of the piece. The end of an act often coincides with one or more characters making an important decision, else having an important decision to make. A decision which has a profound impact on the story being told.'' -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_(drama)
Practise & Initial Ideas
''Chapters''
Backstage
Backcover
This yellow moss has been taken from the location photography cut and crop in photoshop, I feel it gives the back cover the layering effect and a creative flare that I have been looking for combining all my skills through this graphic layout achieving a successful visual aesthetic.
