Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Take Home Exam Topics

TA10 Final Exam Topics:

 

Theater Company Hierarchy & Static categories (Howard)

Metapatterns (Volk)

The door (Aronson)

Image versus Sign (States)

Spectacle/Media (Aronson)

Metaphor (Borges)

George Tsypin’s use of steel and glass (Aronson)

The ideograph (Taymor)

The double image: showing off the mechanics(Taymor)

Space in space (Svoboda)

The formal theater (Robert Wilson)

Anti-illusionistic design (Appia)

Color projection color recession

1.2.3. point perspective

Complementary colors

Forced perspective

light and shadow: 1) specular 2) specular -edge transfer 3) shadow-edge transfer 4) shadow.

Motivated lighting: Identifying the source

Elevation Section and Plan

Ecstatic truth (Herzog)

Theater of the oppressed (Boal)

Collaboration

Ishioka’s creed: revolutionary, original, timeless

Foreman’s set design (Aronson)