Types of Lights
The two general types of lighting instruments in a theatre.
What are floodlights and spotlights?
A light bulb used in a theatre lighting instrument.
What is a lamp?
Lighting the stage to see what needs to be seen.
What is lighting for visibility?
How bright or dim the light is.
What is intensity?
Lighting an actor as if they are outside at 3pm.
What is General Illumination or the McCandless effect?
This light is a floodlight with several colors of light and is located all the way upstage.
What is a cyc light?
The item you must attach to a light when you hang it from a batten - just in case!
What is a safety cable?
Lighting that makes it look like we are outdoors at night.
What is lighting for environment?
The film at the end of a light that controls a light's color.
What is a gel?
The main light that shines on an actor.
What is a key light?
This light is a simple floodlight with one color of light.
What is a scoop light?
The part of the light that connects to the batten and gets tightened into place.
What is a C-Clamp?
Lighting that makes the audience look in a particular location onstage.
What is lighting to place the scene?
The quality of light controlled by reflectors and lenses.
What is distribution?
The light that shines indirectly at an actor.
What is fill light?
This light is also called an ERS and it has two lenses.
What is a leko?
The U-shaped hanger on a light.
What is a yoke?
Lighting that makes the audience feel a certain type of way.
What is lighting to create a mood?
The disco-ball-looking metal part of a spotlight.
What is a reflector?
The color/type of light produced when warm and cool light meet.
What is neutral light?
The cheapest spotlight and the spotlight that has a single ridged lens.
What is a par can or a fresnel?
The glass piece that light shines through in a spotlight.
What is a lens?
Lighting with an obvious source of light on stage and lighting where the source of light is not obvious.
What is motivated and random light?
The part of a lighting system that controls intensity.
What is a dimmer?
The type of neutral light produced when two warm lights and two cool lights are placed at opposite sides of the stage.
What is general illumination or the McCandless effect?