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Design Vocabulary
Purpose of a Set
Set/Stage History
Parts of Stage
Set Basics
100
When an artist decides what will and won't be included in his/her art.
What is a Choice.
100
The purpose of the set that separates On Stage from Off Stage.
What is Defining the Performance Space
100
In the Dark/Middle Ages, plays were performed on these moving stages.
What were Wagons.
100
The part of the stage furthest from the audience.
What is Up Stage.
100
Framed and legged set piece that adds height to part of the stage
What is a Platform.
200
The meaning that an artist intends the audience to get from a choice.
What is Artistic Expression.
200
A set telling time and place is called this.
What is Setting Location
200
This is the time period when actors moved on stage.
What is the Elizabethan Age.
200
A drape that blocks the Wings from the audience view
What is a Wing.
200
A kind of sage that has part of it jutting/coming into the audience, leaving the audience partly surrounding the stage.
What is a Thrust Stage
300
The total environment created through the combination of many choices, designed to express a specific message/feel.
What is a Designed World.
300
A set evoking emotions in the audience
What is Creating the Environment (for actors/audience).
300
One of the kinds of theater that had unrealistic sets that focused on metaphor.
What are: Constructivism, Expressionism, and/or Theater of the Absurd
300
The opening through which the audience sees the stage.
What is the Proscenium Arch.
300
Thin, vertical, framed set piece used to make walls.
What is a Flat.
400
The two kinds of Artistic Expression
What are Logical Expression and Emotional Expression.
400
A set giving actors multiple places to move and act
What is Creates a Floor Plan.
400
The non-changing background of a Greek theater.
What is the skene.
400
The imaginary line that divides where the audience can see and cannot see.
What are Sight Lines
400
A wheeled platform used for bringing set pieces or actors on and off stage.
What is a Wagon
500
The kind of expression used when a dark stage is used to be scary
What is Emotional Expression.
500
Double Jeopardy: The four purposes of a set.
What are: Defines the Performance Space, Creates a Floor Plan, Creates Environment for Performers/Audience, and Establishes Location
500
The kind of set seen in the Renaissance that used forced perspective.
What is Wing and Drop.
500
White drape or wall at the back of the theater meant to be colored with lights.
What is the Cyclorama.
500
Two dimensional set piece with fabric stretched over a framed shape.
What is a Splat