Helping young people discover their niche behind-the-scenes
As many of you may not know or seen me before, I am Katie Ranson, the creator of From Page to Stage Designers (FPTSD). I manage the company on my own in between my full-time job. I initially started FPTSD as something to do, I wanted to keep up my production arts work throughout lockdown … Continue reading Big news!
Thank you to everyone who attended today’s workshop. Today we looked at what costume designers look into when designing a theatrical costume, and to put into practice the new learnt skills into the character costume designs. Within the presentation we researched into the context of the production and used the images of different designs from … Continue reading Virtual Costume Design Workshop
Introducing Production Arts roles within GCSE Drama lessons Recently, I was lucky enough to host a workshop in collaboration with Open Drama UK - Kent. The aim of the workshop was to guide teachers about how to introduce design roles within their GCSE Drama lessons and find activities that mirror those that a designer would … Continue reading Open Drama UK – Kent
Today we have just hosted the From Page to Stage Designer’s Set Design workshop. I originally have a theatre set background so I was especially excited for this workshop. I decided to focus on Hairspray the musical as inspiration for this workshop as it has a positive storyline and a fun and energetic theme. Before … Continue reading Virtual Set Design Workshop
Thank you to all those who attended From Page to Stage Designers Stage Management workshop. This workshop was a tricky one, Stage Management requires you to work within a team. Therefore, I had to find out a way to create an interactive workshop online- a difficulty a lot of educators are experiencing during the pandemic. … Continue reading Virtual Stage Management Workshop
Last night, along with 7551 others, I took the opportunity to watch DREAM, an innovative project brought to you by the RSC, Manchester International Festival, Marshmallow Laser Feast and the Pilharmonia orchestra. Heavily inspired by A Midsummer's Night Dream, the audience followed Puck into the forest to meet their fellow sprites; Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Moth and … Continue reading Dream
Thank you to everyone who has attended today's From Page to Stage Designers virtual workshop! This workshops aimed to look into how Model Making is used within different industries, but more specifically, film and theatre. For this workshop, I created a presentation and resource pack both relating to how the Harry Potter used model making … Continue reading Virtual Model Making in Film & Theatre Workshop
I have just completed our first virtual workshop – Costume Design. This workshop has been a really interesting experience, as this is the first workshop I have advertised and hosted fully online. To adapt my workshops, I had to think of the best way to change all of my creative activities to be doable online. … Continue reading Costume Design Virtual Workshop
I have now released my final resource pack – Model Making. Within this pack, I touch upon how model making is used within a lot of industries, however I focused on the film and theatre industry. I chose to look at how model making was used in the Harry Potter film franchise, as well as … Continue reading Model Making Resource Pack
Today I have released my second of three resource packs – War Horse Puppetry design Resource pack. Puppetry is a topic within theatre arts that focuses solely on itself. There are many aspects to puppetry that you have to take into consideration when designing puppet. Not only do you have to think about the aesthetics … Continue reading Puppetry Resource Pack
