The scenic designer works with the director and other designers to establish an overall visual concept for the production and design the stage environment.

Line, color, texture, form, space, movement, and shape.

Theatrical design is a collaborative process. Each designer works in his or her own area while also communicating with the production team as a whole. All designers share certain parts of the design process, such as analysis, research, and production meetings.

• American Film Institute’s AFI Conservatory.
• Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
• Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
• La Femis.
• New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
• Nottingham Trent University.
• San Diego State University’s School of Theatre, Television and Film.

A set designer is in charge of designing and creating the sets that appear in films and television programmes as well as in the theatre. The role involves working with and communicating with directors, producers, costume designers and other members of staff.

All the scenery, furniture and props the audience sees at a production of a play make up the set design. The set designer’s job is to design these physical surroundings in which the action will take place. The overall look of the set also gives the audience information about the director’s concept of the production.

Setting is the time and place in which a literary work takes place. Staging, however, is much more specific. In the theater world, staging can be several things. First, it can be referring to the process of designing or changing the performance space of a play.

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.

This can include such things as positions of actors on stage (often referred to as blocking), their gestures and movements (also called stage business), the scenic background, the props and costumes, lighting, and sound effects.

Blocking a scene is simply “working out the details of an actor’s moves in relation to the camera.” You can also think of blocking as the choreography of a dance or a ballet: all the elements on the set (actors, extras, vehicles, crew, equipment) should move in perfect harmony with each other.

Blocking or Block Plan. The process of determining and illustrating the location of each business unit on the floor of a building depending on affinities with other business units and specific physical aspects of the space such as access, views and daylight.