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Stagecraft Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Sprinkling system
Director
Technical Director
Elevation
2. First rules of safety in theater
Technical Director
Look - listen - and learn
Loft Block
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
3. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Crossover
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Plaster Line
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
4. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Ground Plan
Loft Block
Master Electrician/Electrician
Voltage
5. A stage area out of sight of the audience
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Offstage
Section View
Voltage
6. A passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre - through which crowds can 'spew out' at the end of a performance.
Catwalk
Fire Curtain
Vomitorium
Flats
7. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
short short - short - center - long - long long
Catwalk
Drop
Proscenium Stage
8. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Producer
SAFETY
Rake
Gobo
9. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Elevation
Look - listen - and learn
Cues
Set Pieces
10. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Apron
Plaster Line
Trap room
FOH: Front of House
11. Any incline of audience or stage.
Director
Loading Dock
Platforms
Rake
12. Makes shoes
Offstage
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Dramaturg
Actual vs. Nominal
13. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
Rake
Gobo
Perspective Scenery
14. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Gel
Source 4 ERS
Arena Stage
Wings
15. 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
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
SAFETY
Borders
Pipe weight
16. Grainer
Section View
Fresnel
Loft Block
Rocker
17. Grainer
Two Fer
Channels
Rocker
short short - short - center - long - long long
18. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
short short - short - center - long - long long
Thrust Stage
Sprinkling system
Ground Plan
19. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Smoke Pocket
Pit
Master Electrician/Electrician
Fire Curtain
20. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Platform
Stage Manager
Proscenium Stage
Two Fer
21. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
SAFETY
Plaster Line
Artistic Director
Master Electrician/Electrician
22. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Batten Clamp
Arena Stage
Pit
23. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Voltage
Overhung
Perspective Scenery
Ground Plan
24. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Fire Curtain
Artistic Director
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Fresnel
25. 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
ontinental Seating
Loft Block
Thrust Stage
Ground Plan
26. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Upstage
Sprinkling system
Rails & Styles
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
27. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Head block
Set Pieces
Trump Ploy
Platform
28. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Cove
Center Line
Trump Ploy
Fusible links
29. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Set Pieces
Production Manager
Loft Block
Fly loft
30. Two instruments - same circuit
Loft Block
Thrust Stage
Master Electrician/Electrician
Two Fer
31. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Upstage
short short - short - center - long - long long
Ground Plan
Overhung
32. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Arena Stage
Perspective Scenery
Section View
33. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Drop
Gridiron
Gel
34. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Master Electrician/Electrician
Cove
Crossover
Producer
35. Pressure
Producer
Rocker
Voltage
FOH: Front of House
36. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Black Box
Director
Circuit
Scenic Designer
37. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Production Manager
Fresnel
Drapery
Borders
38. 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
Drop
Black Box
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Elevation
39. 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
Master Electrician/Electrician
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Board of Directors
Trap room
40. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Plaster Line
Batten Clamp
Master Electrician/Electrician
Elevation
41. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Scenic Director
Gobo
Cove
Flats
42. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Trump Ploy
Proscenium Stage
Channels
43. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Dimmers
Asbestos
Head block
44. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Drapery
ontinental Seating
Gussets
Scenic Director
45. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Crossover
Set Pieces
Front of House (FOH)
Stage Directions
46. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Grand Drape
Tormentors
Lighting Designer
47. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Proscenium Stage
Scenic Designer
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
SAFETY
48. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Offstage
Producer
Plaster Line
Upstage
49. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
Locking rail
ontinental Seating
Director
50. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Milliner
Dimmers
Scenic Director
Look - listen - and learn
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