Costumes
This approach to creating patterns involves working with a dress form and looking at how the fabric will lay over the shapes of the body, to determine what shapes the pattern pieces need to be.
Draping
This is the unit of measurement for light color temperature.
Kelvin
What is the piece of paperwork that quickly shows all of the major lighting areas of a designer's lighting design (hint: Taylor gave you a copy of her's that she used for The Bald Soprano)
A Magic Sheet
Music sounds best in an auditorium with a ______ decay time. Fill in the blank.
Long! Music sounds best with a long decay time.
Spoken word sounds best with a short decay time.
Name a knot that you learned to tie in this class.
Half Hitch, Clove Hitch, Sheet Bend, Square Knot, Trucker's Hitch, Bowline, Cleat Hitch
Name one of the hand-stitches you learned to sew this semester.
Slip Stitch, Whip Stitch, or Cross Stitch
This is what an electrician will call the origin of an electrical current.
The Source
What does LED stand for?
Light Emitting Diode
Where are low frequency sounds sent to in a sound system?
A woofer.
Name two hand tools that you learned about in this class.
Any of the twelve tools you described as part of your Twelve Tools Project! There's a lot of different hand tools, I can't list all of them here.
This is a colloquial name for where a majority of costume paperwork is collected for easy reference. Some of these documents include (but aren't limited to) the cast list, costume renderings, and actor measurement sheets
The Costume Bible
According to an electrician, something that uses electrical energy is called this. Some of them aren't that heavy though, like a hair dryer or a toaster.
What is a gobo AND what are they used for?
Gobos are thin sheets of patterned metal that can be inserted into an ERS to project the pattern on stage.
What is the difference between a balanced and unbalanced sound cable line?
A balanced cable line has two conductors running through the cable which allows for less interference. An unbalanced line only has one conductor and is more prone to interference.
There's one thing that every theatre tech designer has in common with one another, whether they are the set designer, props designer, costume designer, lighting designer, or audio designer. What is this crucial step that leads to creating their design?
They all READ THE PLAY!
I am the assistant costume designer for a show. I need to go through the show scene by scene and figure out where all the quick changes will occur, so that the costume designer and I can effectively plan how the clothes might get rigged to make those changes fast and easy. What document will allow me to do that?
The Costume Plot
How is the Power Formula expressed without using abbreviations? (Or phrased a different way, what do the letters in the Power Formula stand for?)
Power = Voltage x Current
(Also acceptable: Watts = Volts x Amps, but the above is preferred)
What two instruments are considered the work-horses of contemporary theatrical lighting design?
ERS's and Fresnels
(*ERS's and PARs is also acceptable)
In a typical sound system for a show, signal routing, processing and gain control are all handled by this piece of equipment.
Mixer
Name any TWO Things That Could/Probably Should Be In Your Personal Toolkit.
Water, Snacks, Communication, Tape Measure, Scale Ruler, Gloves, PPE, Drill/Impact Bits, MultiTool/Work Knife
When does the wardrobe crew become responsible for the upkeep, laundering, and minor repairs of costume pieces that are used in a show?
Once dress rehearsals begin
Answer this electrics problem:
The lighting designer has asked us to patch a total of FIVE 575 watt instruments to a single circuit in our theater. Each of our circuits is rated for carrying 20 amps of current, with an output voltage of 120 volts. Will this be safe? Why or why not?
NOT SAFE!
Why? The circuit capacity is 2400 watts (120 volts x 20 amps), but the load of the five instruments would be 2875 watts (575 x 5). The 5 instruments would overload the circuit by 475 watts.
What is a two-fer and how does it work?
A Y-shaped cable with two female plugs and one male plug. This allows for two lighting instruments to be connected to one circuit without multiplexing, so both instruments will turn on when the one circuit is given power.
What does the block diagram show?
It shows every piece of equipment used in the sound design, down to the make and model of speakers used. It also shows the location of all these speakers and how they connect to each other.
This is the independent organization that has created industry standards that are used by designers in most technical theatre disciplines.
USITT aka the United States Institute of Theatre Technology