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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. 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
Channels
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Smoke Pocket
Cyclorama
2. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Actual vs. Nominal
Milliner
Platforms
Elevation
3. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Ground Plan
Set Pieces
Upstage
4. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Loading Dock
Arena Stage
Flats
Fusible links
5. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Front of House (FOH)
Master Electrician/Electrician
Overhung
Technical Director
6. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Apron
Lighting Designer
Downstage
Gridiron
7. 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
Platforms
Wings
Locking rail
8. 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
Stand pipe
Black Box
Loading Dock
Gussets
9. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Cues
ontinental Seating
Proscenium Stage
Apron
10. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Pit
Vomitorium
Gridiron
Pipe weight
11. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Proscenium Stage
Head block
Scenic Designer
Flats
12. Levels of intensity
Section View
Apron
Dimmers
Offstage
13. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Dramaturg
Smoke Pocket
Gridiron
Catwalk
14. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Pit
Crossover
Catwalk
Ground Plan
15. 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
Lighting Designer
Scenic Designer
Grand Drape
Circuit
16. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Gel
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Production Manager
Gobo
17. 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
Fire Curtain
Gobo
Fly loft
18. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
TPI
Gridiron
ontinental Seating
Rails & Styles
19. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Platforms
Plaster Line
Front of House (FOH)
FOH: Front of House
20. 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.
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Gridiron
ontinental Seating
Drapery
21. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Channels
Center Line
Fly Space
Cyclorama
22. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Drop
Proscenium Stage
Section View
Masking
23. Any incline of audience or stage.
Pipe weight
Rake
Milliner
Section View
24. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Master Electrician/Electrician
Flats
Fly loft
Circuit
25. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Pipe weight
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
FOH: Front of House
Wings
26. (sizes of wood) 2 x 4 (nominal) > first milled - then changes because of shaving ... actual is 1.5 x 3.5 - for this class know 2x4 - 1x3 - 4x4... within that range
Arena Stage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Apron
Actual vs. Nominal
27. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
ontinental Seating
Producer
Arena Stage
Borders
28. Any incline of audience or stage.
Fresnel
Two Fer
Cyclorama
Rake
29. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Actual vs. Nominal
Section View
Cyclorama
Grand Drape
30. Directions from the actor's point of view
Actual vs. Nominal
olor Elevations
Stage Directions
Section View
31. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Cove
Catwalk
Dramaturg
Upstage
32. A hose connection for a fire hose
Overhung
Vomitorium
Trap room
Stand pipe
33. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Black Box
Offstage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
ontinental Seating
34. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Plaster Line
Downstage
Drop
Master Electrician/Electrician
35. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Trap room
Downstage
Fusible links
Gridiron
36. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Set Pieces
Master Electrician/Electrician
Front of House (FOH)
Look - listen - and learn
37. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Rake
Set Pieces
Fresnel
Source 4 ERS
38. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Black Box
Gobo
Section View
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
39. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Proscenium Stage
Voltage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
olor Elevations
40. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Thrust Stage
Scenic Designer
olor Elevations
Pipe weight
41. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Flats
Borders
Stage Directions
Fly Space
42. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Cyclorama
Sprinkling system
Trap room
Masking
43. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Production Manager
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Fly Space
Cove
44. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Voltage
Voltage
Proscenium Stage
Asbestos
45. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Offstage
short short - short - center - long - long long
Source 4 ERS
Sprinkling system
46. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Director
ontinental Seating
Pipe weight
47. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Overhung
Platforms
Scenic Director
48. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Tormentors
Wings
Drop
Head block
49. 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
Arena Stage
Production Manager
Trump Ploy
Cyclorama
50. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Director
Plaster Line
Cove
Fire Curtain