Stagecraft
Set Design
Scene Painting
Light Design
Sound Design
100
Arena, Amphitheatre, Procenium, and Thrust
What are types of Stages?
100
This design communicates the time and place of the play.
What is Informative Design?
100
Step 1: Sizing, Step 2: Prime Coat, Step 3: Base Coat.
What are Preliminary Coats?
100
The Long Distance Spot
What is Ellipsoidal Reflector Spot (ERS)
100
This provides power to seakers and other audio.
What are amplifiers.
200
The collection of beams that provide a working platform and support the blocks and roof. Comes in both underhung and upright.
What is the Grid or Gridiron
200
This is suitable for the play's action and space.
What is Appropriate Design?
200
Quick jerks of a paint brush to fling drops of paint onto a surface.
What is Spattering?
200
The other name for strip lights.
What are boarder lights.
200
Evens out the sound production.
What are equalizers.
300
The metal Pipe where curtains, scenery, or lighting equipment is hung.
What is the Batten?
300
This must evoke the theme and mood of the play.
What is Expressive Design?
300
This technique is a wet blending of several hues in curved and straight patterns.
What is Scumbling?
300
also known as cookies, these flat metal discs cast designs when placed in front of a light.
What are Gobos?
300
Recorded, Created, and Found.
What are sources of sound?
400
This ties the ropes once the batten is pulled up to your desired height.
What is a Pin Rail
400
A Scale mechanical drawing of the set that shows location, position, and measurements of the set pieces.
What is Ground Plan?
400
These two techniques combined together make a different technique known as brickwork.
What are stenciling and spattering?
400
This must be lit by at least 2 instruments.
What is Acting (lighting) area?
400
Amplifies speech/voice, special effects, adds music to enhance mood and meaning.
What are the 3 functions of sound?
500
You say this when there is not enough counterweight.
What is "Batten Heavy"?
500
A view of the set as if it were on a plane. It is drawn to scale and shows the vertical dimensions and proportions.
What is Front Elevation?
500
When having to stop painting in the middle of a project you must always do this to the edge so you don't create a rough edge.
What is Feathering?
500
This puts all the information for the lighting into an organized chart.
What is Instrument Schedule.
500
This is the question you ask when creating a script analysis for sound.
What is "What do you hear as you read?"
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