Audio/Lighting
What is Subwoofer or Subs?
Equipment designed to cover and protect the face.
What is a Face Shield?
Process of giving cues to the crew and performers. Typically performed by the Stage Manager.
What is Calling a Show?
Changes made to the fit of a garment or mockup.
What is an Alteration?
A flat build on board face.
What is a Broadway Style Flat?
The unit used to measure the intensity of a sound or the power level of an electrical signal by comparing it with a given level on a logarithmic scale.
What is a Decibel?
An electrical breakdown of a gas that produces a prolonged electrical discharge.
What is an Electrical Arc?
Flooring, permanent or portable.
What is a Deck?
Outer fabric in a garment.
What is Fashion Fabric?
A flat built on board edge.
What is a Hollywood Style Flat?
A unit of frequency equal to one thousand cycles per second.
What is Kilohertz?
Local authority having jurisdiction, conducts fire safety inspections and oversees enforcement of local fire codes.
What is a Fire Marshal?
Narrow curtain hung vertically along the sides of a stage and parallel to the plaster line.
What is a Leg?
Anything that is used to close up a costume, such as hooks & bars, zippers, buttons, or snaps.
What is a Closure?
An angled cut made across the face, or width, of a board.
What is a Miter?
A unidirectional microphone pickup pattern characterized by its inverted heart shape. The narrowest pattern is Hyper-cardioid.
What is Cardiod?
Hardhat, safety glasses, general purpose gloves, sound protection, and safety shoes.
What is Basic Safety Equipment?
Loosely woven material that is generally opaque when light streaks across the front, but transparent if a scene is lit behind it.
What is a Scrim?
Process of customizing and adjusting the garment to the shape and size of the performer.
What is a Fitting?
A system utilized to reinforce building structures in which diagonal supports intersect.
What is Cross Bracing?
A radio reception technique in which signal is obtained by selecting the stronger of two independent sources at any given time.
What is Diversity?
Organization that provides the process of developing consensus standards
What is the American National Standards Institute or ANSI?
Over stage support structure consisting of regularly spaced members permanently affixed to the venue to support equipment.
What is a Gridiron or Grid?
Opening in the body of a garment to accommodate an arm.
What is an Armseye?
A three-sided set piece typically on castors.
What is a Periaktoi?