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Stagecraft Basics
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Fire Curtain
Stage Manager
Channels
Set Pieces
2. A lighting instrument characterized by hard-edged light with little diffusion; designed for long throws - it is manufactured with fixed and variable focal length lenses; the light beam is shaped with internally mounted shutters.
Platform
Overhung
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Stage Directions
3. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Technical Director
Cyclorama
Master Electrician/Electrician
Actual vs. Nominal
4. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Production Manager
Perspective Scenery
Channels
short short - short - center - long - long long
5. Pressure
Voltage
Catwalk
Look - listen - and learn
Black Box
6. Mounted to the gridiron or support steel that supports and changes the direction of a lift line rope between the load and the head block
Scenic Director
Fly Space
Loft Block
Fire Curtain
7. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Loading Dock
ontinental Seating
Perspective Scenery
8. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Arena Stage
Locking rail
FOH: Front of House
Master Electrician/Electrician
9. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
Director
Cove
Trump Ploy
10. A hose connection for a fire hose
Platform
Stand pipe
Sprinkling system
Apron
11. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Flats
Production Manager
Crossover
Catwalk
12. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Milliner
Production Manager
Channels
Fire Curtain
13. Hire and fire Managing Director and Artistic Director - these are patrons w/ money & connections - in the upper echelons of authority and want to help theater but doesn't necessarily know how
Platform
Board of Directors
Gel
Perspective Scenery
14. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Fusible links
FOH: Front of House
Production Manager
Gel
15. A curtain or drop made of gauze-like fabric; when lighted from the front - it is opaque - but is transparent if lighted from the back; a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater
Sprinkling system
Lighting Designer
Scrim
Downstage
16. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Gel
Channels
TPI
Grand Drape
17. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Milliner
Fresnel
Rails & Styles
Batten Clamp
18. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Stand pipe
Proscenium Stage
Company Manager
Pipe weight
19. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Tormentors
Rake
Plaster Line
20. Any incline of audience or stage.
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Elevation
Rake
Center Line
21. First rules of safety in theater
SAFETY
Borders
Apron
Look - listen - and learn
22. Hire and fire Managing Director and Artistic Director - these are patrons w/ money & connections - in the upper echelons of authority and want to help theater but doesn't necessarily know how
Board of Directors
Flats
Thrust Stage
Director
23. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Source 4 ERS
TPI
Wings
Masking
24. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Gobo
Source 4 ERS
Fly loft
Fire Curtain
25. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Pipe weight
olor Elevations
FOH: Front of House
ontinental Seating
26. First rules of safety in theater
Look - listen - and learn
Elevation
Technical Director
Scenic Designer
27. Two instruments - same circuit
Two Fer
Black Box
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Trap room
28. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Producer
Loading Dock
Artistic Director
Grand Drape
29. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Upstage
SAFETY
Asbestos
Pipe weight
30. One who works in the theatre as a resource for the history of plays and dramatic literature. They research - study - write - and often teach this material to others
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Masking
Dramaturg
31. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Fusible links
Scenic Director
Fresnel
Center Line
32. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
short short - short - center - long - long long
Cove
Board of Directors
Elevation
33. Also known as teasers - hung over head of the stage main use is to mask any equpiment usually fixtures you dont want audience to see
Grand Drape
Drapery
Perspective Scenery
Borders
34. Any arangment of cloth or other material that curves around the rear of the stage and partiall down the sides usually neutral in color it is often lighted to represent the sky or used as a projection surface
Cyclorama
Channels
Asbestos
Downstage
35. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Drop
Gridiron
Head block
Rails & Styles
36. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Crossover
Scenic Director
Artistic Director
Smoke Pocket
37. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Fly Space
Platforms
Platform
Dramaturg
38. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Technical Director
Catwalk
Section View
Fly Space
39. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Rails & Styles
Pipe weight
Proscenium Stage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
40. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Head block
SAFETY
Tormentors
41. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Center Line
Ground Plan
Company Manager
olor Elevations
42. Type of performance space that is small - created out of a room - painted all black; the scenery can be arranged in any way inside the box
Set Pieces
Loading Dock
Ground Plan
Black Box
43. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
TPI
Gobo
Sprinkling system
Stage Directions
44. Plug in wall
Proscenium Stage
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Circuit
Fire Curtain
45. Mounted to the gridiron or support steel that supports and changes the direction of a lift line rope between the load and the head block
Scrim
Rails & Styles
Lighting Designer
Loft Block
46. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Production Manager
Ground Plan
Masking
47. Pressure
TPI
Voltage
Scenic Designer
Fly loft
48. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Front of House (FOH)
Trap room
Loft Block
Loft Block
49. Fire curtain used to be called this
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Milliner
Circuit
Asbestos
50. One who works in the theatre as a resource for the history of plays and dramatic literature. They research - study - write - and often teach this material to others
Dramaturg
Masking
Scrim
Milliner