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Design Essentials

Four practical design paragraphs, with Edexcel-specific phrasing when that board is selected.

Extract Focus

Pick what the extract is really about. The model paragraphs rewrite instantly.

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Set Design paragraph

SET

Lighting paragraph

LIGHTING

Sound paragraph

SOUND

Costume paragraph

COSTUME

How to use this in the exam

Identify the extract’s main pressure (power / guilt / pack / surveillance), pick the focus, then tweak one detail to match the moment. Keep terminology concrete: levels, proxemics, specials, wash, gobo, underscore, diegetic.