Dramatizing the Story
5. Design the setting and costumes
The setting is where the play happens. For our videotapes,
we found places around the school that could act as the setting and then
added whatever set props we needed. A set
prop is an object like a chair or a drugstore counter; it is a big piece
of furniture that the characters use.
We started by drawing what we wanted the setting to look like. Then we
made a list of set props that we needed. Finally we made a list of hand
props that each character needed. Hand props are small things that
a character uses. In “The Drug Store Robbery” we needed things
like cans of tuna fish, a small box with a ring, a telephone.
Check out the setting site
for ideas about how to do design your set and come up with lists for the
set and hand props.
Costumes are the clothes the characters wear. What will
they look like? The pictures you have chosen to tell about Tempe in 1900
will help. Look at the pictures again. Then click on costumes
to get help in deciding what your characters should wear.
  
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