Fixtures
A light used to cover huge areas with zero focusing
What is a floodlight?
What the audience can or cannot see.
What is Visibility?
The bar that holds the light and allows the fixture to swivel back and forth.
What is yoke? and/or C-clamp?
Electricity's unit of measurement.
Watt is watt?
Brightness.
What is intensity?
A light whose controllable qualities can be changed manually at the light.
What is follow spot? or spotlight?
Temperature, Weather, Season, Time of Day, light within the physical space.
What is Establishing the Environment?
The casing that the bulb is placed.
What is housing?
The center point that controls the amount of electricity sent to an instrument.
What is dimmer?
Used to control color in an ellipsoidal
What is gel?
A relatively inexpensive fixture used as down light or back light.
What is PAR can?
Where you want the audience to look. Emphasis.
What is Placing the Action?
The bulb.
What is a lamp?
List the 3 most common wattages you'd see in the theatre.
What is 500, 575, 750?
The 20 different spots on the stage that lights should point to.
What is focus area?
A light named after the shape of its internal reflector.
What is Ellipsoidal?
Themes, characterization, how the audience should be feeling
What is Setting the Mood?
The area that the lenses are housed.
What is barrel?
The two different types of circuits you'd see in a theatre.
Watt is stage pin (3 pin) or Twist-lock?
List the different aspects to consider when talking about distribution.
Focus, beam angle, field angle, throw distance, lens degree, beam edge
Named after the man who changed the shape of the lens to focus a low wattage light to a more specific area.
What is Fresnel?
Describe how you would address all 4 of the reasons in a humid, hot motel room with 3 characters who come in and out of the room to yell at each other.
Describe it!
Please send one representative to disassemble an Ellipsoidal and another person to put it back together.
Some assembly required!
I have 2 Ellipsoidals, a PAR, and a fresnel. Describe (using wattages) the placement of these instruments on how many dimmers.
WATT??
Explain how controllable qualities address the 4 reasons.
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