Lighting
Sound
Costume
Set Design
The Designer's Job
100

Decides what kind of lights are needed, where to focus them, and when to turn them on.

Who is the lighting designer?
100

This person decides what kind of music and sound effects are needed whether they should be live or recorded.

Who is the sound designer?

100

Design costumes or selects them from rental spaces.

Who is the costume designer?

100

The person who develops the concept for and designs a set.

What is a set designer?

100

The first step for every designer. They must do this before they create any ideas.

What is step 1 script analysis?

200

People who place/hang the lights and run them during the show.

What is the lighting crew?

200

These people are responsible for collecting, preparing and running the sound for a performance.

Who are the sound crew?

200

The costume designer must be aware of these two things most when designing.

What is design and style of the era?

200

Considered the hub around which all other aspects of the production design revolve.

What is set design?

200

When a designer considers color, mood, tone, message and feeling, it is called this.

What is step 2 concept?

300

Decides what specific colors are used, based on the set design

What is a lighting designer?

300

A sound other than speech or music made artificially for use in a play.

What is a sound effect?

300

Costume designers work closely with these people to determine the movement needs of the costume.

Who are actors?

300

The set designer must be aware of this when designing.

What is period, environment, mood, theme and safety.

300

Making sure that your designs do not need to be changed, and adapting them if necessary.

What is step 5 follow through?

400

Lighting designers must be aware of this when designing for the stage.

What is location, mood and time of day?

400

Sound designers must be aware of these elements when designing.

What is mood, era, and special needs?

400

These people cut out the new pattern for the costume.

What is a first hand? 

400

Set construction can take up to how many hours to complete.

What is 300 man hours of labor?

400

Meeting with the team of designers to discuss your ideas and get on the same page.

What is step 3 consulting the team?

500

A  scaled plan showing the exact position (seen from above) of all items standing on the stage floor and indicating the position of items suspended above.

What is a ground plan?

500

The three distinct functions fulfilled by the sound designer.

What is amplifies speech, provides special effects and supplies music to enhance the mood and meaning of a play?

500

This person creates patterns using actor measurements and the costume rendering for each built costume.

What is a cutter/draper?

500

The set designer provides the design to this team to physically create the set.

What is the set construction crew?

500

Creating your design and developing a plan to execute it.

What is step 4 create the design?

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