Lighting Design
This type of lighting comes from behind an actor to create separation or a silhouette.
What is back light?
These are items such as clothing, accessories, and fabric choices that define a character visually.
What are costume elements?
This is the term for any pre-planned sound moment triggered during a performance.
What is a sound cue?
This lightweight framed scenic piece is used to create walls or architectural surfaces onstage.
What is a flat?
This term describes how strong or pure a color appears.
What is saturation?
This soft-edged fixture uses a ridged lens and is common for gentle washes.
What is a Fresnel?
Costume designers rely on these three sources to justify their design decisions.
What are historical research, textual evidence, and visual references?
These gradual increases or decreases in volume smooth transitions between sound moments.
What are fade-ins and fade-outs?
This scenic element conceals backstage areas and technical equipment from the audience.
What is masking?
These colors—often reds, oranges, and yellows—are associated with warmth and energy.
What are warm colors?
This number tells a lighting fixture which control data it should read from the console.
What is a DMX address?
Costumes often communicate these aspects of a character’s identity and personality.
What are personality, status, emotional state, or time period?
Sound designers use these elements to shape a scene’s emotional tone.
What are music, tempo, volume, and ambient sound?
This term refers to the vertical arrangement of actors and scenery to create visual interest or hierarchy.
What are levels?
This method of color mixing uses light to create hues, while its counterpart uses gels to filter white light.
What are additive and subtractive color mixing?
This metal stencil inserted into an ERS allows designers to project patterns onto the stage.
What is a gobo?
A designer may shift a character from muted tones to bold colors to represent this storytelling device.
What is character development?
This term describes a layered collection of sounds that create an environment or mood.
What is a soundscape?
Unlike a flat, this scenic structure creates a raised, weight-bearing acting surface.
What is a platform?
A designer uses this cooler color temperature (Kelvin) to create a distant or isolating visual mood.
What is a high color temperature (5600K or above)?
These six artistic principles guide how lighting supports storytelling and visual focus.
What are visibility, focus, mood, modeling, time & place, and composition.
Costume design reveals these two different character qualities—one describing personality and the other describing social position.
What are character traits and social status?
This design principle explains why thunder is heard briefly after lightning during a cue sequence.
What is timing?
Designers use certain scenic shapes, lines, and spacing to communicate an “open, airy” emotional tone.
What are elements such as high platforms, bright colors, wide spacing, or upward lines?
When magenta light shines on a green object, the object appears this color due to the absence of green frequencies.
What is black?