Choreography is an important part of stage design, its design can improve the overall effect of the stage, create a better stage atmosphere. So, what is the use of stage art design for drama? The following is the role of stage art design of drama organized by me for you, I hope it can help you.
Historical development of stage art design
These functions of stage art design are the product and result of historical development. The earliest appearance in the performance is directly related to the actor's make-up, costumes and accompanying props, and then gradually have a set. After the performance into the indoor and gradually have lighting. In a long period of history, it is mainly in the performance to play? Practical? Sexual function. With the increasingly perfect technical conditions of various performances, artistic modeling means gradually increased, its artistic role is gradually strengthened, the value and taste of artistic creation is also higher and higher, and then become an important organic component of the comprehensive art of theater. In modern theater performances, choreography has become an important and even decisive factor in determining and shaping the artistic form of performances.
The role of choreography in theater creation
First, choreography is an important and indispensable part of theater creation
Drama is a very comprehensive form of art, which can be said to encompass almost all forms of art, such as literature, performance, recitation, music, dance, make-up, costume, choreography, lighting, sound, etc. Among them, choreography has become an important part of theater creation since its inception. Among them, choreography since the theater? Original? germination to today's modern stage production performance, always accompanied by the left and right, inseparable. From the earliest appearances in the performance and the actors directly related to the makeup, costumes and accompanying props, such as a touch of rouge, a handkerchief, a fan, and gradually developed to a simple table and chairs, screens, sets and so on. On the traditional theater stage, the intervention of choreography seems to be outside of the rehearsal, and the choreography, even if it is delicate and complex, is only attached to the canopy or hung on the gable screen, which basically does not affect the performance area. For a long period of historical development, choreography was mainly played in the performance. Practical? Sexual function. Since the founding of New China, especially since the 1960s, a large number of modern plays and new historical dramas, a large number of plays, songs and dances of the concept of choreography and choreography introduced to the theater stage, such as the geometric shape of the large platform production, the use of a variety of electric machinery, a wide range of lamps, light and choreography design interaction, etc., so that the choreography has made great strides in the development of the design. With the increasingly perfect technical conditions of various performances, the gradual increase of artistic modeling means, the artistic role of choreography is increasingly rich, the value of artistic creation and taste is also increasingly high. Although it is said that the importance of actors as the main body of stage performance art creation is self-evident. However, in addition to the actors on the stage, the objects within the audience's visual reach are the creative objects of choreography. Therefore, it can be said that, in the theater creation synthesized by many departments, directing, music and choreography are again the three major components of each major creative department. Mr. Cao Yu, a famous opera singer in China, once said: ? Without stage art, there is no theater. This shows the important role of stage art in theater art is indispensable.
Second, choreography is crucial to the second creation
Choreography is both time art and space art, is a four-dimensional art of time and space interlacing, not only has a strong technical and material conditions of dependence, but more importantly, the choreography designer's own artistic cultivation. It covers many disciplines such as literature, history, geometry, physics, fine arts, mechanical principles, etc., the many categories, the wide range, which requires the choreography designer to read a lot of books, extensive knowledge, more observation, more speculation, endless learning and exploration.
Experience is accumulated in practice, and artistic enhancement depends on perception. Although the stage is a limited time, limited space, but the theater to express the content of life, in time and space are infinite. As we said earlier, the actor is the creative body of stage performance art, relatively speaking, there are many virtual, programmed, abstract body language, but the presentation of choreography is most of the more specific scene design, choreography how to grasp the concept of time and space? To a large extent, it depends on the quality of the choreographer, which is a starting point. On this basis, the choreography designer should first read through the script to understand the intention of the play, the characters, the plot development, there is a choreography creation framework; and then obey the director's overall layout, choreography can never be far away from the director and detached from the rehearsals outside. According to the director of the positioning of the whole work, the establishment of the performance style, the main performance area of the actor's functional division, and even the actors into, out of the line delineation, all need to be in the director's clear guidance under the final draft choreography, so as to avoid serious differences in the synthesis of repertoire; the third step, re-reading of the script to deepen the understanding of the creative thinking, it is very useful to the expansion of the idea. The process of re-reading the script, the designer must make notes on many important details in order to better capture the feeling of the role and its context. The designer must also find out what is essential to the play, such as, does the room need to be normal? Do the rooms need walls? Do the doors and windows of the room face the right way? Do the doors and windows face the same way? And what are the period appropriate objects? The designer should also familiarize himself with the venue, walk around the stage and sit in the auditorium in order to set the performance area, set size, scene orientation, etc.
Choreography is not just a matter of technology and experience, it is vital that the form of choreography in the content of the constraints of the content of the reaction, that is to say, a good choreographer is a poet with the breath of the artist. The German dramatist and director Bertolt Brecht thought: ? The set should have artistic value, but also individual characteristics.? After mastering all the information related to the play, the designer can successfully shape the characters through the characters and scenery modeling, organically create and organize the space for dramatic action, accurately represent the environment and location where the action takes place, well create the mood and atmosphere needed for the play, and maximally help the actors reveal the inner world of the characters and the ideological content expressed in the script, etc. In short, the choreography designers to do the writing and realism, diversity and purity, restrictions and creativity of the three major contradictions unity, can be called a successful choreography second creation.
Third, borrowing and development
Innovation is an eternal theme, without innovation there is no development. As we all know, the reason why the art of Peking Opera has today? The national essence of Peking Opera. s status today is due to the unremitting reforms and innovations of its predecessors over the past two hundred years. It is undeniable that the modern Peking Opera in the 1960s was an epoch-making change and sublimation of the art of Peking Opera. Until today, the modern Peking Opera to our country's theater industry impact and advancement is still the remaining momentum has not decayed. Jiangxi Provincial Peking Opera Troupe over the years to create performances, exhibitions and award-winning plays, all thanks to the modern Peking Opera creation and performance of the accumulation of experience. For example: my troupe in 2009 and Jingdezhen Peking Opera Troupe to create, perform the modern Peking Opera "peach blossoms", the play about the porcelain city of Jingdezhen, a group of unemployed college students to start their own business story, the theme is Chairman Mao with porcelain --?7501?best edition of the best quality porcelain? The theme is Chairman Mao's porcelain - 7501? The theme is Chairman Mao's porcelain ---?7501? The play according to the modern urban background and the new era of college students style characteristics, there are many choreography features, highlights of the creation, in accordance with the director's requirements, choreography boldly proposed to make a? Water point peach blossom? Large disk, eight meters in diameter, weighing more than 100 pounds. Disk of blue and how the color and how integrated, in itself, is a design and production problems, its area, weight, hanging scene are tricky. However, the choreography designers think hard, elaborate ideas, repeated production, and finally, at the end of the play, a round of large, perfectly realistic lapis lazuli plate shown in the stage in mid-air, the climax of the play highlights, the actor passionate, the audience applauded. Times pulsating, vivid characters, scenes of splendor, ceramic culture of the deep heritage, are full in this round of blue and white porcelain plate. The play won the province's eighth Yu Minghua Theatre Festival Outstanding Play Award, the first prize for choreography, once again proved that choreography in the theater works can not be ignored in the important role of the extremely strong argument for reform and innovation is the inexhaustible source of all artistic creation.
The artistic conception and role of choreography
First, the relationship between choreography and lighting design.
As we all know, stage art includes design, lighting, costumes, props, make-up and sound, etc., which is an organic whole, all of which should belong to the large category of choreography. Clothing, props and make-up colors should be in line with the choreography of the environment, lighting design should also serve for the choreography, according to different plots to create different atmospheres, with the choreography scenery, lighting actors, revealing the plot, enriching the connotation of the play and so on. In the past stage performances, choreography designers and lighting designers have a clear division of labor, and choreography designers have to analyze the plot according to the script and design a reasonable stage background. The background can be figurative or abstract, and the designer has to provide the actors with reasonable stage pivots. In addition the choreographer has to draw slides or paint large picture screens, work with workers to create scenery pieces or directions, etc. The lighting designer also has to read the script, communicate with the director, consult and discuss with the choreographer about the use of light and color in order to achieve a perfect performance. Stage designers must understand art and be familiar with stage scheduling, while lighting designers do not have very high requirements for art, but must be familiar with circuit technology and stage lighting. More than ten years ago, most of the stage lights used back to the light, the lamp, less computer lights and other advanced lamps. So choreography and lighting design in the stage of the performance of a clearer division of labor, they go their own way, **** with the operation of the stage art as a whole. There are also some designers who understand both choreography and lighting, but from the type of work, they belong to different categories, because one is painting, the other is light.
With the advancement of technology, the lighting on the stage has started to change in a thousand ways, mainly as a result of the use of computerized lights on the stage. Computerized lights and conventional lights compared to the lighting effect is flexible and beautiful. Because it is a new thing, computerized lights are expensive, but gradually used in some large-scale cultural performances. Just as the emergence of computerized spray painting, able to spray high-precision beautiful pictures, making it once replaced the traditional hand-painted background. At that time, the types and functions of computer lights were relatively simple, some computer lights can hit some simple patterns, while others can render rich colors. In the open-air plaza performances, neon lights made a big impact, together with the popularity and application of computer lights, making the stage present a beautiful visual effect. Computer lights for lighting designers to provide a good platform to make their dreams come true, a good lighting designer to stand out. Of course, at this time the computer lights and projectors are still far from reaching the current maturity level, choreography designers are still committed to the overall conception, script analysis, research and reflection on the computer spray painting. Lighting designers are enjoying themselves in the sea of high-tech lighting. The relationship between them remains the same as it was before, just as it was before.
Second, the main idea of choreography
Choreography itself has the nature of space art and time art, belonging to the four-dimensional space-time intertwined art, it has a strong dependence on material conditions and technology. In the creation of art, choreography has a subordinate nature, and in the process of performance, it has a variety of functions: constructing the atmosphere and mood needed in the whole plot; showing the environmental characteristics and location content of the action; organizing and creating the space for theatrical action; and showing the psychological characteristics of the characters and the thoughts and feelings expressed through the design of the actors' images. Choreography is designed to cater to the entire performance effect and create the performance of the characters, stage effects, rendering the entire scene environment, it is in the analysis of the director's script, to understand the director wants to express the idea of the script through certain means to achieve the emotional atmosphere of the perfect, in order to achieve the performance or other scripts type of performance requirements.
Third, the creativity of choreography
1, the creativity of lighting design in choreography
The effect of stage lighting plays a pivotal role in the presentation of the entire drama. Lighting design is based on the reasonable use of lighting technology and techniques, based on the needs of the content of the plot and the director of the whole plot to express the overall idea to create a good visual effect, it is combined with the entire stage character image, costumes, actors perform the emotions, stage set design, sound design and other comprehensive factors to integrate and performance to create a beautiful visual effect. For the stage, lighting is undoubtedly the soul of the existence. The use of light is also ever-changing, the intensity of the light color, set and scattered light, the color of the light, etc. in the stage performance through the innovative use of the atmosphere, promote the development of the plot and sublimation of feelings and other roles.
2, the creativity of costume design in stage design
The costumes worn by the actors in the play from the intuition of the character's personality traits, age, occupation, ethnicity, where the times have an image of the performance, so the costume design is also an important part of the stage art design. The purpose of the use of costumes is to accurately portray the character image, such as in the flower drum opera "Flowers Falling and Blooming", which abandoned the original costume design only focus on the appearance of beauty and the plot of the characteristics of the times, according to the character character psychological analysis and emotional analysis of the character's clothing to be designed and innovated. The heroine of the play, when participating in a villagers' election, wore a flowery blue dress, and added some embellishments in the conspicuous position of the dress, which made the whole character look full of simplicity and cordiality, and gave people a solemn, serious and simple image, and also reflected on the one hand that the heroine was well-dressed, and embodied the heroine's self-confidence, conservatism, but not lacking in beauty. In the first choice after the election, the heroine changed to wear slightly black and white clothes, so as to emphasize the mood of depression, loss and pain at this moment, but the whole costume is hard and concise and exquisite, so as to portray that although the election is lost, but it is still very rational, intelligent, educated and stubborn and self-confident character traits. In the third scene, the fashionable and beautiful costumes, coupled with the design of new hairstyles, emphasize the image of not wanting to be looked down upon, smiling and not daring to lag behind others. Innovative changes in clothing design, no longer stick to the external shape, pay more attention to the character's psychological world of performance and support. Costume design needs to understand the ever-changing market information, to explore new clothing materials, should be more detailed analysis of the plot of the actor's inner world of change, in order to create better clothing to express the emotional changes of the characters.
3, make-up design innovation
Make-up design through the character of the shape of the face, skin color improvement, defects and flaws to make up for the local highlights, etc. to shape the audience in the mind of a good actor image. With the constant updating of the times, the make-up materials have become more and more advanced and delicate, and these changes have provided a better foundation for the creation of make-up art and technology. In the choreography, but also in the past on the basis of new breakthroughs in make-up, make-up more fashionable sense of aesthetics and artistic sense of aesthetics.
4, props design creativity
In the deepening of choreography, the use of props in the development of the plot process for the character, historical background, environmental performance relative to the set design is more direct. When choosing props, we need to carefully analyze and understand the emotions and identities of each character. Today's props design is no longer as simple as in the past, it is in the shape, color, material design concepts, etc., to strengthen the props of the performance of the aesthetic and artistic sense of beauty. Enhance the variability of props, strengthen the recycling value of props, etc., so that the application of props design more in line with the needs of modern development and the trend of change, is to further promote the embodiment of innovative choreographic design.