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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. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gridiron
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Gobo
Front of House (FOH)
2. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Loft Block
Ground Plan
Dramaturg
Pipe weight
3. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Tormentors
Cove
Pipe weight
Fire Curtain
4. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Upstage
Asbestos
Producer
Fusible links
5. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Sprinkling system
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Crossover
Gridiron
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
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Borders
Producer
Channels
7. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Platform
Apron
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Cues
8. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Plaster Line
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Thrust Stage
Center Line
9. Makes shoes
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Voltage
Dimmers
Technical Director
10. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Crossover
Scenic Designer
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Stand pipe
11. A platform where pig irons are loaded onto or off of arbors
Cove
Gel
Loading Dock
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
12. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Center Line
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Downstage
Front of House (FOH)
13. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Locking rail
short short - short - center - long - long long
Master Electrician/Electrician
Center Line
14. 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.
Producer
Stage Manager
Ground Plan
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
15. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
short short - short - center - long - long long
Sprinkling system
Scrim
Black Box
16. Two instruments - same circuit
Thrust Stage
Two Fer
Fly Space
Platforms
17. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Head block
Milliner
Trap room
Borders
18. 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
Black Box
Rake
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
19. 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
Director
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Cyclorama
Board of Directors
20. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Scenic Designer
Borders
Catwalk
TPI
21. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Cues
Technical Director
Channels
22. First rule of any work done in theatre space or shop
Proscenium Stage
Upstage
SAFETY
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
23. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Crossover
Rocker
Production Manager
Proscenium Stage
24. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Black Box
olor Elevations
Perspective Scenery
Lighting Designer
25. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Stage Manager
Artistic Director
Cove
Drapery
26. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
FOH: Front of House
Offstage
Thrust Stage
27. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Stage Directions
Batten Clamp
Flats
Dramaturg
28. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Milliner
Stage Directions
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Rocker
29. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Cues
Stage Manager
30. 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
Rake
Trap room
Plaster Line
Lighting Designer
31. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Smoke Pocket
Platform
Board of Directors
Fly loft
32. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Trump Ploy
Channels
Wings
Tormentors
33. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Center Line
Smoke Pocket
Voltage
Cues
34. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Vomitorium
Downstage
Catwalk
Director
35. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
olor Elevations
Front of House (FOH)
Scrim
36. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Channels
Fire Curtain
Milliner
Elevation
37. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Set Pieces
Flats
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Company Manager
38. Plug in wall
Circuit
Look - listen - and learn
Catwalk
Section View
39. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Platform
Tormentors
Grand Drape
Source 4 ERS
40. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Director
Channels
Black Box
Source 4 ERS
41. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Tormentors
Center Line
Master Electrician/Electrician
Cues
42. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Batten Clamp
Locking rail
Plaster Line
TPI
43. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Dramaturg
Grand Drape
Drapery
Grand Drape
44. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Artistic Director
Cues
FOH: Front of House
45. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Fly Space
Thrust Stage
Set Pieces
Director
46. 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)
Elevation
Gussets
Rake
47. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Fusible links
Set Pieces
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Pit
48. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Locking rail
Head block
Fly Space
49. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Lighting Designer
Center Line
Trap room
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
50. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Proscenium Stage
Artistic Director
Gel
Production Manager