Design Essentials
Four model paragraphs + the terminology that actually earns marks.
Board lens: Not set
How to use this page
Pick one paragraph and adapt it to the extract: add one specific moment and one audience effect. That’s the difference between “nice idea” and “marks”.
Extract focus
Pick what your extract is mostly about. The four model paragraphs will rewrite to match.
Tip: still add one *specific moment* from the extract.
Terminology mini-bank
Unit setOne structure used across locations with minimal furniture changes.
Levels / rostrumHeight = status; forces accused to “look up” at power.
GoboStencil in a lantern to project bars/windows/texture.
Cold wash / intensityHarsh exposure (court) vs low intensity shadow (paranoia).
Diegetic / non-diegeticHeard by characters vs only by audience.
Reverb / distortionTurns voices into a wall of hysteria; can feel “demonic”.
Palette / silhouetteColour and overall shape communicate modesty/status.
DistressingBreaking down costume to show time, poverty, imprisonment.