TERMS and JARGON
The stage direction farthest from the audience
What is Upstage?
A wash fixture with a lighthouse lens
What is a fresnel?
The father of modern lighting design in America
Who is Stanley McCandless?
The most import tool for a light hang or focus
What is a Crecent Wrench?
A metal or glass tool used to create patterns in light
What is a gobo?
This word means to stop what you are doing right now
What is the term HOLD?
A fixture with an oblong beam
What is a PARcan
Early developers of theatre whose stages were built on hills and faced so that the sun would come from behind the audience.
Who are the Greeks and Romans?
The paperwork used by the house electricians the hang the lighting instruments for the show
Colored plastic used in color mixing
What is gel?
The front of house hanging location located in the rafters
What is the Ante Proscenium or AP?
A fixture with an adjustable beam spread from SPOT to FLOOD
What is a PARNel or Fresnel?
The first widely-used type of electric light
What is the carbon arc lamp?
The person who runs the lighting focus
Who is the lighting designer?
The U-shaped piece of metal that connects the light to the C-clamp
What is a hanging yoke?
The metal pipe used to hang scenery and lighting fixtures above the stage. Part of the flyrail system.
What is a baton?
A fixture that has "intelligence"
What is a moving/automated/intelligent light?
A system controlled by a 'Gasman' who changed the lighting in accordance with the needs of the production.
What was the Gas Table?
The area where weight is loaded onto the arbor during a light hang or focus
What is the loading bridge?
The screw on the C-clamp that allows you to adjust the pan of a fixture
What is a set screw AKA the Jesus Nut
The section of a stage located downstage of the proscenium line
What is the apron?
A archaic type of light that uses burning oxygen and hydrogen
What is a lime light?
The woman who insisted that the creation of light for the theater, previously relegated to electricians and to overworked set designers, was a career in itself.
Who is Jean Rosenthal?
The person running the light board during a light hang or focus
What is a Programmer or Board Op?
The lens used in an ETC source 4 AKA Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight
What is a plano convex lens?