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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. Final artistic choices go to
Stand pipe
Pit
Black Box
Director
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.
Rake
Master Electrician/Electrician
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
3. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Set Pieces
Company Manager
Trump Ploy
Drop
4. 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
Gel
Gridiron
Board of Directors
Rake
5. 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
Scrim
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Cues
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
6. 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
Proscenium Stage
Production Manager
Voltage
Borders
7. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Cues
Offstage
Master Electrician/Electrician
Fly Space
8. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Proscenium Stage
Ground Plan
Upstage
Company Manager
9. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Cyclorama
Fresnel
Source 4 ERS
Producer
10. According to what do lighting designers arrange their light plots - allowing them to follow a 'map' of the plot
Apron
Gel
Thrust Stage
Channels
11. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Flats
Perspective Scenery
Look - listen - and learn
Producer
12. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Actual vs. Nominal
Gel
Locking rail
Channels
13. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Lighting Designer
Wings
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Downstage
14. The person in charge backstage; he or she helps the director during rehearsals and then takes charge backstage when the play is performed - also has to deal with performer's behavior
Gel
Drop
Stage Manager
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
15. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Wings
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Director
16. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Circuit
Technical Director
Artistic Director
Batten Clamp
17. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Plaster Line
TPI
Platforms
Elevation
18. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Director
Asbestos
Borders
Wings
19. 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
Catwalk
Stage Manager
Director
20. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
TPI
Front of House (FOH)
Scenic Designer
Fresnel
21. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Loft Block
TPI
Dramaturg
22. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Circuit
Artistic Director
Fly Space
23. Any incline of audience or stage.
Catwalk
Rake
Perspective Scenery
Cyclorama
24. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Loading Dock
Loft Block
Thrust Stage
Platform
25. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
FOH: Front of House
short short - short - center - long - long long
Platform
Milliner
26. Two instruments - same circuit
Director
Asbestos
Two Fer
Stage Directions
27. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Head block
Flats
Crossover
Fly loft
28. Any incline of audience or stage.
Rake
Pipe weight
Proscenium Stage
Rails & Styles
29. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Stand pipe
Apron
Vomitorium
Gobo
30. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
olor Elevations
Dimmers
Pipe weight
Offstage
31. In the theatre - the person who decides where the lighting instruments should go - how they should be colored - and which ones should be on at any particular time
Batten Clamp
Overhung
Fly Space
Lighting Designer
32. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Company Manager
Dramaturg
Black Box
FOH: Front of House
33. Fire curtain used to be called this
Director
Stage Directions
Asbestos
Rails & Styles
34. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Dramaturg
Rocker
Channels
Fusible links
35. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Pipe weight
Center Line
Producer
36. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Downstage
Center Line
TPI
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
37. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Drop
Overhung
Voltage
Gel
38. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
Rocker
Master Electrician/Electrician
Company Manager
39. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Gobo
FOH: Front of House
Ground Plan
Cues
40. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Rails & Styles
Voltage
Fire Curtain
Flats
41. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Locking rail
Section View
Master Electrician/Electrician
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
42. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Sprinkling system
Pipe weight
Smoke Pocket
Master Electrician/Electrician
43. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Scenic Director
short short - short - center - long - long long
Pit
44. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Proscenium Stage
Voltage
Sprinkling system
Source 4 ERS
45. Directions from the actor's point of view
Cove
Head block
Stage Directions
Apron
46. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Circuit
Catwalk
Front of House (FOH)
Grand Drape
47. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Circuit
TPI
Loft Block
Drop
48. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Loading Dock
Scrim
Scenic Designer
Gussets
49. Levels of intensity
Stage Manager
Director
Trump Ploy
Dimmers
50. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Master Electrician/Electrician
Batten Clamp
Perspective Scenery
Crossover