Components

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• Components
• of a
• Prompt Book
• Jennifer Fox
• Carolina High School
• Fine Arts Department

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Overview of Project

• Talented and Gifted/Honors level advanced theatre
  class
• Federal Theatre Project
• Students as dramaturge create prompt
• book
• Resources from American Memory Collection

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What is a Prompt Book?

• Official Directors
• Copy of Production
• Script with Blocking
• and Acting Notes
• Set Design

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What is a Prompt Book?

• Costume Design
• Make-up Design
• Lighting Design and Cues
• Music and Sound Cues

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Script

• Directors Copy of Script
• Blocking Notes
• Describing where actor moves on stage
• Describing how actor moves on stage
• Acting Notes
• How scene is acted/played
• Emphasis on certain words

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Set Design

• Artists rendering of all stage settings
• Rooms
• Furniture
• Props
• Scenery

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Costume Design

• Each character has individual page(s)
• Costume design includes color and fabric swatches

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Make-up Design

• Make-up design and color palette used
• Hair styles
• Specialty make-up

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Lighting Design and Cues

• Types of lighting used for certain scenes
• Lighting cues

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Lighting Design and Cues

• On/off at certain
• points during scene
• Fade-to-black
• Spotlights
• Gobos

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Music and Sound Cues

• List of all music used
• Sound cues
• On/off during certain scenes
• Sound effects
• Song Cues

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All photographs are courtesy of the Library of
CongressAnd the American Memory Collection