Lighting Equipment
is used to control the intensity of a light from a remote position, has faders and may use a touch screen.
What is a lighting desk?
The command given to a lighting or sound engineer to carry out an operation.
What is a cue?
The auditorium lighting which is commonly faded out when the performance starts.
What are house lights?
The complete absence of lighting on the stage.
What is a blackout?
Is the person who controls the performers movement on stage.
The Director is
is a lantern that provides a soft edge which can be varied in size and colour.
What is a Fresnel
The operation that brings in a new lighting state up whilst bringing the previous one down.
What is a crossfade?
Is a curved plain cloth or plastered wall filling the rear of the stage oin which lighting is used to create mood
What is a Cyclorama
The rights to rehearse, and perform a show that was created by another company and should be purchased before rehearsals begin.
What are performing rights
A type of stage that has the audience on three sides of the stage
What is a thrust stage?
Lighting that can change colour and position without the operator phisically touching the lantern.
What is intelligent lighing?
Those lanterns in a rig which are set aside purely to light the acting areas
What is a general cover?
Use of lighting to create pulsing, stobe lighting or flashing on stage
What are effects
The view the audience members can see on the stage
What is a sight line?
Is often described as a 'picture frame stage' and is ideally suited to musicals.
A proscenium stage
A class or metal item that is inserted into a light to project a shape onto a cyclorama.
What is a gobo?
Is a collection of bar's and ropes in which lighting is hung from
What is a grid?
An attachment consisting of two or four metal flaps (hinged) which is fixed to the front of a Fresnel type lantern to cut off the beam in a particular direction(s)
What are Barn Doors?
What is blocking?
A type of stage setting where the audience can see the other audience members and see their reactions.
What is a Theatre in the Round?
is a digital communications protocol that is used to control lights remotely, also the type of cable used.
What is DMX
A scale drawing detailing the exact location of each lantern used in a production
What is a Lighting Plan?
Anything in position before the beginning of a scene or act i.e. props placed on stage before the performance or the lighting state on stage as the audience are entering
What is a preset?
is located between the performer and the audience, commonly broken in Pantomimes.
What is the Forth Wall
Is the process of cueing the performer with a line.
Prompting refers to?