Sunday, December 7, 2008
ideograph!
can someone explain ideograph to me again cuz apparently this whole time i've been confusing ideograph and double image. on thursday al said that ideograph was a gesture but i'm still not getting the main idea around ideograph
Richard Foreman as a Scenographer
Richard Foreman as a Scenographer
Foreman encompasses text, character, language, sound, space, thought, and décor to weave together a comprehensive visual form.
His sets evoke wonder and exhilaration of the audience due to their intricacy and have the power to upstage the actors and text.
Not every point of focus on the stage will be the same for every audience member but still engage the audience the same, filling the gap between auditorium and stage.
Foreman uses different framing devices “to set the stage off from the audience as well as differentiating objects and performers from each other within the stage space.
-Framing consists of literal pointing to use of ubiquitous strings to literal frames
Homemade/rough quality to sets; avoids sleekness of commercial theater
-Solid, monochromatic color scheme along with eerie lighting help to evolve the mood of the play.
Sets have hints of the Victorian era though not set in the time period.
“The overstuffed-ness is a kind of comfort, but also a kind of luminescence almost…a kind of erotic aspect”
The element that has become most identifiable as Foremanesque is his use of strings, connecting things across the stage and even out into the audience.
-“They frame, focus, and function as lines of energy and ultimately, they disrupt the field of vision”
- Foreman would also add black dots to the strings that made that would make the stage dense with it’s own empty space.
He does not use fourth wall realism but instead a “reverberation chamber” in which actions/ words onstage are reflected back and forth between the objects. These reverberations trigger memories, and emotions from the audience.
- He is striving for an involved observation
The process of designing for foreman is much like that of writing. “Just as the texts emerge from the pages of his notebook, the scenographic environment evolves through thumbnail sketches…. [then] makes a rough model (sometimes several) until he achieves something with which he is satisfied.
“His stage is not an empty stage since it is an embodiment of a rich and densely textured mind.”
Foreman encompasses text, character, language, sound, space, thought, and décor to weave together a comprehensive visual form.
His sets evoke wonder and exhilaration of the audience due to their intricacy and have the power to upstage the actors and text.
Not every point of focus on the stage will be the same for every audience member but still engage the audience the same, filling the gap between auditorium and stage.
Foreman uses different framing devices “to set the stage off from the audience as well as differentiating objects and performers from each other within the stage space.
-Framing consists of literal pointing to use of ubiquitous strings to literal frames
Homemade/rough quality to sets; avoids sleekness of commercial theater
-Solid, monochromatic color scheme along with eerie lighting help to evolve the mood of the play.
Sets have hints of the Victorian era though not set in the time period.
“The overstuffed-ness is a kind of comfort, but also a kind of luminescence almost…a kind of erotic aspect”
The element that has become most identifiable as Foremanesque is his use of strings, connecting things across the stage and even out into the audience.
-“They frame, focus, and function as lines of energy and ultimately, they disrupt the field of vision”
- Foreman would also add black dots to the strings that made that would make the stage dense with it’s own empty space.
He does not use fourth wall realism but instead a “reverberation chamber” in which actions/ words onstage are reflected back and forth between the objects. These reverberations trigger memories, and emotions from the audience.
- He is striving for an involved observation
The process of designing for foreman is much like that of writing. “Just as the texts emerge from the pages of his notebook, the scenographic environment evolves through thumbnail sketches…. [then] makes a rough model (sometimes several) until he achieves something with which he is satisfied.
“His stage is not an empty stage since it is an embodiment of a rich and densely textured mind.”
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