Set Design

STUDY PLAN

<p>During the programme, student acquires knowledge and skills necessary to undertake a professional specialising path.</p> <p>After the first year, students choose their specialisation, in the second and in the third year they attend specific courses aimed at identify a qualification to be developed in the last semester.<br />&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>FIRST YEAR<br /></strong></p> <p>Introduces students to the basic tools to approach set and costume design for the show business and for live events, from opera to theatre plays, from dance to musicals to concerts, and to new kinds of sets for performances, exhibitions, and fashion shows.</p> <p>Through theoretical, project-based and lab teachings of set design, digital technologies and applications, history of costume, history of modern art, drawing for design, scene design, students analyse creative and executive phases of set preparation, space modelling, costume as a communication tool, hand and technical drawing, stage as a scenic machinery.<br />&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>SECOND YEAR</strong></p> <p>Guides students towards further improvement in the set design field by choosing one of the programme specialisations (Theatre and Opera, Media and Events) and through specialising studies in set design, direction, costume design, photography, history of cinema and video, phenomenology of contemporary arts, scene design, digital applications for visual arts.<br /> Led by teachers through field experiences, students learn how to approach set design projects for theatre, how to devise and design events, direction techniques for live performances and fitting, costume and scene design.<br />&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>THIRD YEAR</strong></p> <p>Defines students knowledge and skills and provide the opportunity to confront practical experiences in set design for real brief in the field of live performance and events.</p> <p>By the end of the programme, students develop a personal method and language in set design through specialising teachings of history of performing arts, set design, scene design, performative techniques for visual arts, light design, applied techniques for theatre production, cultural anthropology, and didactic activities related to the thesis project, in its theoretical and project-based components.&nbsp;</p>