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25 Design-Tech Strategies to Save
You Time and Money


First in the SETC FIELD GUIDE SERIES

$18.00, 88 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9802445-0-2
Publication Date: March 2008
Looking for innovative design-tech solutions? Look no more!
OUTSIDE THE BOX: 25 Design-Tech Strategies to Save You Time and Money is packed with practical ideas that are proven to work. Top design-tech professionals share their secrets in this how-to book published by the Southeastern Theatre Conference.

The first book in the SETC Field Guide Series, OUTSIDE THE BOX is a collection of new articles and previously published columns (updated for this book) from the popular “Outside the Box: Design-Tech Solutions” column in Southern Theatre magazine.

The innovative and cost-saving solutions to design-tech problems will inform, assist, and inspire a wide spectrum of workers in the field of theatre, from seasoned professionals to recent graduates.
“An invaluable tool for all craftspeople in the theatre. . . . It is my hope that OUTSIDE THE BOX will become a standard for every theatre student and professional, and I look forward to future editions of this book.”
-William Ivey Long
Tony Award-Winning Costume Designer

OUTSIDE THE BOX explores techniques and tips in Scenery, Lighting, Special Effects, Costuming and Tech Software through 25 articles including:
  • Working Sink: Make Running Water with Garden Sprayer, Air
  • Into Thin Air: Make Actors “Disappear” without Pyrotechnics
  • Period Shoes: Characters Can Mosey to Moliere in Boots
  • Budget Costumes: Becoming a Clothing Cannibal to Save Money
  • Curved Steel: How To Build a Machine to Bend Steel Beams
  • Gobos: Make Your Own for Less than $2 Each
  • Snow: Make a Snowmaker for Less than $60
  • Breakaway Glass
  • Onstage Pool: Create a Splash Hit on Your Stage
  • 3-D Bricks
  • Open Source: Save Money by Using Programs Found Online

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