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THEA 246 - ELEMENTARY SCENE DESIGN FLOOR PLAN ASSIGNMENT:
  1. Carefully examine the Room Floor Plan and identify the most important features (entries, major furniture pieces, etc.). Make a list of them and determine which are essential to the room, which are useful and which are merely decorative and reveal character.
  2. Using the edge of a triangle, play at 'lopping' various portions of the room ground plan to see what remains. This may help you to get started rearranging walls and other architectural features into an interesting and useful stage arrangement.
  3. Roughly trace a 1/4" theatre ground plan on 8 1/2" x 11" paper so you will have a scaled 'doodle sheet' to work out your ideas. Save all of these. Be sure to use the standard symbols provided on the 'Lines and Symbols' sheet.
  4. As you work, keep in mind the factors of:
    1. Sight lines
    2. Traffic patterns
    3. Conversational groupings
    4. Focus and balance
    5. Architectural reality
  5. When you arrive at a workable plan, apply the scale rule to all of the elements to check sizes. Make necessary adjustments and then leave it for a day. Examine it again critically before you proceed.
  6. Carefully draft the plan in 1/4" scale using the plan of the Powers Theatre provided. Neatly label any ambiguous shapes.
  7. Determine extreme sight lines through doors and windows and place appropriate masking units behind the set.
  8. Dimension all walls and other significant architectural features to center line and proscenium line (as in example of floor plan given).