Elements and Principles of Design
Overall Story Terms
Lighting
Sets
Sound
100
The perceived or actual feeling of an object/image
What is Texture?
100
The overall emotional feeling of a moment
What is Mood?
100
The brightness of a lighting fixture.
What is Intensity?
100
A set piece that is used to create walls.
What is a Flat?
100
A sound added to a production that cannot be created on stage.
What is a Sound Effect?
200
Elements in the piece are opposing to each other
What is Contrast?
200
The person who is in charge of the overall vision of the production
Who is the Director?
200
These are the three primary colors of light.
What are red, green, and blue.
200
Pieces added to the hard structures of a set like furniture, curtains, props, etc.
What are Set Dressings (or Furnishing Props)?
200
How loud a sound is playing.
What is Intensity/Volume?
300
One part of the piece has greater visual weight than the other parts
What is Emphasis?
300
This can be referred to as a Choice
What is an element of the design that a designer has included in the play?
300
The tool inserted into an ERS to create texture.
What is a Gobo?
300
The effect of a set that controls how the actors move in, out, and through the set.
What is the Floor Plan?
300
When a sound effect or piece of music is played underneath the dialogue/action of the scene.
What is Undertone?
400
All parts of the piece have equal visual weight
What is Ballance?
400
What is meant for the audience to "get" from a choice the designer has made.
What is Expression?
(Expressed/Artistic Expression/Logical Expression/Emotional Expression)
400
Lighting that is more concerned with Mood than with Place is referred to as this.
What is stylized lighting?
400
Set pieces or drapes used to block the off stage areas from view.
What is Masking?
400
The Highness or Lowness of a sound's Frequency.
What is Pitch?
500
All of the elements of a piece work together to create a sense of one-ness
What is Unity?
500
The sum total of all of the choices and their expressions that include setting, tone, environment and genre.
What is the World of the Play?
(Designed World)
500
The effect of the number of lighting cues and the rate at which they change on the timing and feeling of the production. (Part of PRISM)
What is Rhythm.
500
Large painted fabric scenery that hangs upstage of the rest of the set.
What is a backdrop?
500
The quality or texture of sound
What is Timbre?