Staging Act 5
Pretend that you are the directors of a new staging of Macbeth. Read your scene and focus on the colors that you would incorporate into your staging to help layer archetypal meaning.
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Questions to Consider |
1. Script that includes: a. characters’ lines word for word b. revised stage directions that include color archetypes for setting, costuming, and lighting. 2. A paragraph supporting your color archetype choices. 3. An illustration of a key character or the scene as a whole. |
- What colors would characters wear? - Does the color change (i.e. layering of colors like a black vest, red undershirt, etc) - What color(s) would make up the setting? - What color lighting would you use to set the mood? - Would the lighting color change during the scene?
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COLOR ARCHETYPES:
colors associated with certain characters and setting can add
meaning
White - Positive associations are light, innocence, purity, virginity, and timelessness. A heroic character will usually wear this color prior to experiencing a rite of passage. Negative associations are death, terror, the supernatural, and the blinding truth of an inscrutable cosmic mystery.
Black - Positive associations are knowledge and intelligence. The hero figure may wear a combination of black and white while processing through various trials. Negative associations are evil, melancholy, chaos, mystery, the unknown, and death.
Yellow - Depicts hope and happiness. Positive association with the sun. As long as the sun shines, there is hope for a new beginning.
Red - Depicts great passion as in love, violence, and artistry. Also denotes blood, sacrifice, and disorder. The hero or one of his/her cohorts during battles may wear this color.
Blue - A positive color associated with compromise, serenity, truth, security, spiritual purity. Characters wearing this color usually represent peacemakers.
Green - Positive associations are life, rebirth, growth, hope, fertility. Sometimes seen in conjunction with yellow. Negative associations are death and decay.
Orange - A combination color used to represent hope and passion (yellow and red).
Brown - Earth tones representing unity with the land. Frequently seen with native animals or characters in harmony with their homeland. Earthmothers wear this color.
Purple - Associated with power and royalty, depending upon the degree of richness used.
Gold/Silver - Associated with wealth, status, and power.
Lighting Keys:
The intensity (key) of a scene’s lighting directs viewer’s
attention.
High-Key Lighting – Bright… associated with truth (good or bad); tends to draw viewer to that moment
Low-Key Lighting – Dark… associated with mystery (negatively) or calmness (positively)
A very basic example: [Original text and stage directions changed stage directions]
S
CENE
V. Dunsinane. Within the castle lights
are a high-key white
Enter
MACBETH wearing
red,
SEYTON wearing green,
and Soldiers wearing
red under chain mail,
with drum and purple,
gold, and silver lined banners
MACBETH
Hang out our banners on the
outward walls;
The cry is still 'They
come:' our castle's strength
Will laugh
a siege to scorn: here let them lie
Till
famine and the ague eat them up:
Were
they not forced with those that should be ours,
We
might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And
beat them backward home.
A cry of
women within
What is that noise?
SEYTON
It is the cry
of women, my good lord.
Exit
- A Very Basic Paragraph Example…
We chose to stage Act V, Scene V using several symbolic colors for the setting and the various characters involved in the scene. For the setting, we chose ____ to represent ____. This seems fitting because ____. We also chose to present ____ wearing _____ because it demonstrates his _____ and _______. In addition, ____ appears in ______ to showcase the ______. When the knowledge of ______ is revealed, ____ takes off his ____ outer layer and reveals his ______ inner layer. This shows __________.
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