Refers to the colors cyan, yellow, magenta, which are used to mix colors in moving lights.
What is CMY?
100
Refers to warmness or coolness of lighting: high color temperature lights appear whiter or cool.
What is color temperature?
100
Light used in followspots.
What is compact source iodide, CSI?
100
Term used when referring to a venue that has been closed either permanently or temporarily between productions.
What is dark?
100
When lighting is reduced, but not completely blacked out, during scene changes.
What is a dim out?
200
The list that specifies all of the colors that will be needed for a specific lighting plan.
What is a color call?
200
Refers to the closing time of a show.
What is the come down.
200
The system of giving actors and other staff cues by light.
What is cue light?
200
Adjective describing an article of equipment or scenery that is no longer being used.
What is dead?
200
1.) Small hidden trap door at stage level which contains electrical outlets.
2.) Clear lacquer used to tint bulbs for lighting.
3.) Lighting equipment that is set up at stage level.
What is a dip?
300
Piece of colored plastic that blocks passing of light of any color but it's own.
What is a color filter?
300
Sealed metal box that contains glass or other breakable items that is thrown backstage to produce the sound of items being broken onstage.
What is a crash box?
300
Either the imaginary line across the stage where the curtain would be if it were closed or the final spoken line in a play.
What is the curtain line?
300
A room that dulls sound due to it's thick sound absorbers.
What is a dead room?
300
Occurs when sound equipment is overloaded.
What is distortion?
400
Occurs when two beams of different colors are focused onto the same area.
What is additive color?
400
Occurs when one lighting effect is brought up to replace the current lighting effect.
What is a cross fade?
400
Refers to the speech given by the director or theatre owner before a performance begins.
What is the curtain speech?
400
Specialist brought in to assist actors with specific accents necessary for conversations within the production.
What is a dialect coach?
400
Refers to a metal plate with a center hole that can be inserted into lanterns to sharpen focus.
What is a donut?
500
Occurs when two colors of gels are placed in front of a lantern.
What is subtractive color?
500
The path an actor takes from one side of the stage to another.
What is a crossover?
500
The moments in a performance when the point of the plot is revealed or explained.
What is the denouement?
500
A remote controlled batten with color changers.
What is a digital light curtain, DLC?
500
A movable wall with a working door that is used for scenery.