Production Folio
The Purpose of a Production Folio is to showcase the development of a stagecraft area in performance. All stagecraft are used to enhance the overall effect of the play. Every decision is made with purpose to create a feel or effect. As a designer, look to make connections between the subject matter/themes and characters and your stagecraft area. Your Folio should be an assortment of text, images, sketches and brainstorms. What is being assessed is your ideas and your ability to translate those idea into practice.
Format
You may present you Production Folio in any of the following ways:
Content
You must include the following four sections in your Production Folio.
1. Production Outline
Format
You may present you Production Folio in any of the following ways:
- A3 or A4 Visual Diary
- Blog (Sound and Lighting)
Content
You must include the following four sections in your Production Folio.
1. Production Outline
- Information about the Playscript
- Information about Playwright
- Information about Context (Period/Culture/Issues)
- Director’s vision
- Initial ideas.
- Discussions with other stagecraft areas (meeting notes)
- Brainstorms/image collages with annotations
- Other elements specific to stagecraft area.
- Draft Designs with annotations
- Photos of stagecraft ideas being trialled.
- Photos/ journal entries of stagecraft being sourced.
- Discussions with other stagecraft areas. meeting notes)
- Analysis of draft designs. What you have done, how you have done it and why
- Final Design with annotations.
- Photos with annotations
- Evaluation of stagecraft application. Were your designs successful.