Moulding assignment

Examples for the Moulding assignment can be found in the Moulding Catalogue shown in class. 

Due Dates

Midterm 2/11

#1-lettering 2/11
#2-scale 2/11
#3-dimensions 2/18
#4-ground plans/ theaters 2/18
#5-masking/ sight lines 2/25
#6-plan/ section/ elevation 2/25
#7-moulding 3/4
#8-scenery 3/4
#9-stairs 3/9
#10-grid 3/9

Final Project 3/16

Master Worksheets of Dorn and Shanda

Drafting for the Theater Master Worksheets. 

These worksheets by Dennis Dorn and Mark Shanda show the worksheets for their book "Drafting for the Theater." In these worksheets is a variety of views : isometric and oblique; orthographic, and axiometric. These exercises will help with the visualization of objects in space as rendered in two dimensions. 

Cool links

This guy is a kinetic sculptor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KkGFuRLew&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37BsADFmHGU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv7xv2iX0zQ&feature=related

blog2test

blog

http://blog.miragestudio7.com/wp-content/uploads2/2007/10/architecture_comic_funny_architect_comics_architects2.jpg

How to Post

If you email stuff to ucsctheaterarts.ta18@blogger.com can you post to ta18.blogspot.com????

Invitation to blog on TA18 Drafting for the Theater

Welcome Class! 

From your Professor Alan Tollefson, a.k.a. Al. 

  I've invited you to contribute to the class blog in order to enrich the discussion about our topic with your videos, drawings, photos and writing. You can post links and share readings because Drafting is a subject that is surprisingly deep when we consider its potential for communicating the imagination of the designer through a set of visual conventions, symbols, and points of view. For instance,  drafting can describe process as well as space because  the order of these parts is inherent in the drawing of the stage design. From the elements of theater architecture to the  soft goods to flats, doors, or windows each is drawn in relation to each other in a complete set of design drawings. Drafting relates to architecture, mapping, perspective, production, and of course theater. The list could go on. 

Thanks! Al

Syllabus TA18

TA 18 Drafting for the Theater

MW 12p-2p
Lab hours: W 2:30-4:30
Room: TA C102
Instructor: Alan Tollefson
Office: rm TA A101 (scene shop)
Ph# 831 459 4096
Email: abtollef@ucsc.edu
Course website: http://ta18.blogspot.com

This course will introduce the beginning student to the discipline of drafting for the theater. The process is broken down into a series of steps, which build on each other and lead to an understanding of how to visually and accurately explain an object. Concepts discussed: modeling, visualization, ways of seeing, communication/ production/ process, USITT conventions.

You have been charged a studio fee, which allows you to use the drafting tools and paper in this room. This is a shared classroom and you must clean up your workspace and properly store all tools before departing. Others will also be using the drafting equipment and tables.

All drafting is done on vellum using the drafting tables, parallels and pencil.

There is no required text. Throughout the quarter I will be giving you hand-out sheets which- as you save them- will build into an instruction manual. So save them! If you want further reading, see me for recommendations.

You will draft a series of exercises/projects, which will be graded. You will take notes on lectures and post to the class blog. You will do the readings.


There will be a mid-term exam, a final exam, and a final project.

Attendance is mandatory. The majority of the work will be done during class time and I will be available during lab hours. If you miss 2 classes we will discuss whether or not you should continue the class of drop it.

Exercises

#1-lettering
#2-scale
#3-dimensions
#4-ground plans/ theaters
#5-masking/ sight lines
#6-plan/ section/ elevation
#7-moulding
#8-scenery
#9-stairs
#10-grid

Grades derived from:

MIDTERM QUIZ 10%
FINAL QIUZ 10%
FINAL PROJECT 20%
EXERCISES 50%
PARTICIPATION 10%

Holidays

Monday Jan. 19–Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no class)
Monday Feb. 16–Presidents’ Day (no class)

Readings TBA (accessible on eres)