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The visual elements of a play include the stage, stage settings and design, lighting, costumes, makeup and hand props of the play.

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The stage design is used to create an environment that helps bring what is described in the script to life. The stage is used by the characters to perform the lines of the play. The stage design should be just as important as the script as it is extremely visual. The stage design contributes to our experience and understanding of the play by giving us a clear image of the atmosphere of when and where the story occurred and knowledge about the characters of where and when they lived.

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Sounds that are used to emphasize/ downplay content in a play. Usually accompanies action and provides ¨realism¨

This contributes to our understanding of the play and the experience of it by creating nonverbal cues to experience an emotion, emphasizing key points in the plot, character development, etc.

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it is used establish a mood, provide background noise, fill sequences with no dialogue, fill scenes with dialogue, scene changes, etc. Used significantly in pivotal moments to amplify the climax/anti-climax.

This contributes to the experience because it add in-depth emotions to blander moments in the play. It also differs itself from normal conversations and builds mood. Jaws is an excellent example with the main theme of the shark enough to terrify grown men because of the fear instilled in it.

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The lighting design of the play is important because it provides an overall mood for the play. Light can be used to establish the time or location. Light can also be used to create mood and atmosphere. The lighting design contributes our experience and understating of the play by setting a mood and atmosphere. Also, giving the time of day the scene is taking place.

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Costumes are a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular country or historical period. The costumes contribute our experience and understanding of the play by helping to convey certain time periods and historical context.The costume shows the characters, career, age, social position, or even their physique and health.  Costumes can also show a particular period or era and the day and weather of the scene.

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The stage props and the hand props and are used as part of a scene design by the stage designers. The stage props include furniture, pictures, fireplaces, chairs and tables, etc. The hand props are pens and pencils, cigarettes, glasses, etc. The props contribute to our understanding and experience to the play by helping to convey what the mood of the play is, and the objects that the characters use and their taste in furniture and day to day objects. Props can also show the very little details of the play.

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The script is the written text of a play. It defines dialogue, action and scenes.

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Structurally, plays have a beginning, middle, and end, and they are divided into acts, which are subdivided into scenes. The five-act play structure follows this pattern:

1. Exposition: The play's introduction of the story, characters, setting, and conflict.

2. Rising Action: The series of events leading to the climax, creating suspense.

3. Climax: The intense turning point of the play.

4. Falling Action: The action as the plot twists are revealed, and the story concludes.

5. Resolution: As the play ends, the final outcome is uncovered, and the plot complications are resolved.

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The stage directions are one of the most important parts of the script, stage directions are the instructions about the positioning or movement of the actors or different aspects of the set.
The stage directions are separated from the dialogue and are often in italics.
Stage directions are often given at the start of a new scene so that readers can visualize what will be happening onstage.

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Dialogue is also a very important part of the script. Dialogue is the conversation between characters in the play, it lets you know who is talking and what they are saying. The name of the character is often on the left of the script with the characters lines on the right.
The dialogue reveals personality traits of the characters, thoughts, feelings, background (ethnicity, family, culture) and the characters motives.

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Used in place of music during times of great importance to the story. Sometimes silence and the use of body language with facial expressions delivers a more surreal experience to the viewer.

This contributes to our understanding of the play because it signifies a key point of the plot or character development. often, music is too prevalent in the story and the introduction of silence breaks that pattern creating new emotions.

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Designing sound for Theatre and Plays