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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 curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Production Manager
Grand Drape
Drop
Platforms
2. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Center Line
olor Elevations
SAFETY
Rails & Styles
3. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Sprinkling system
Front of House (FOH)
Stand pipe
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
4. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Asbestos
Proscenium Stage
FOH: Front of House
Flats
5. 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
Arena Stage
Grand Drape
Gussets
6. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Tormentors
Section View
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Smoke Pocket
7. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Production Manager
Ground Plan
Gobo
8. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Apron
Ground Plan
Offstage
Trap room
9. Levels of intensity
Loft Block
Pit
Ground Plan
Dimmers
10. Scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen
Board of Directors
SAFETY
Perspective Scenery
Masking
11. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
olor Elevations
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Channels
Actual vs. Nominal
12. Plug in wall
Head block
Circuit
Drop
Asbestos
13. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Proscenium Stage
Offstage
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Platform
14. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Arena Stage
Rocker
Borders
Master Electrician/Electrician
15. Pressure
Elevation
Gel
Voltage
Gobo
16. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Elevation
Thrust Stage
Circuit
Section View
17. 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
Board of Directors
Cyclorama
Center Line
Fly loft
18. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Loft Block
Actual vs. Nominal
Overhung
FOH: Front of House
19. Grainer
Technical Director
Vomitorium
Fusible links
Rocker
20. Made of channels - A visual or aural signal that indicates the beginning of an action - line of dialogue - or piece of music
Channels
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Batten Clamp
Cues
21. Two instruments - same circuit
Two Fer
Wings
Pit
Offstage
22. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Asbestos
Cues
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Wings
23. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Cove
Elevation
Section View
Gobo
24. Creates a visual home for the play on stage - setting (color)
Scenic Director
Director
Catwalk
Cues
25. Underneath the stage where things are stored (like ERS' or Fresnels and seats)
Platforms
Director
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Trap room
26. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Scenic Director
Trap room
Drapery
27. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Apron
Downstage
Upstage
Rocker
28. 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
Technical Director
Stage Manager
Smoke Pocket
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
29. (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
Fusible links
Gridiron
Loft Block
30. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Two Fer
Trump Ploy
Gobo
Fly Space
31. Everything hands on - the person who figures out how the set will be built and then oversees construction - works closest with Scenic Director
Wings
Technical Director
Sprinkling system
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
32. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Board of Directors
Cyclorama
ontinental Seating
Elevation
33. 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
Master Electrician/Electrician
Dramaturg
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Two Fer
34. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
Voltage
Catwalk
Trap room
35. Final artistic choices go to
Scenic Director
Rocker
Circuit
Director
36. 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
ontinental Seating
Dramaturg
Proscenium Stage
Borders
37. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Pipe weight
Batten Clamp
Stand pipe
Vomitorium
38. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Thrust Stage
Channels
Black Box
Gobo
39. 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.
Fly Space
Actual vs. Nominal
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Circuit
40. Any incline of audience or stage.
olor Elevations
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Borders
Rake
41. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Sprinkling system
Rails & Styles
Gel
Elevation
42. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
FOH: Front of House
Drapery
Platform
Cyclorama
43. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Cyclorama
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Thrust Stage
Sprinkling system
44. Directions from the actor's point of view
Artistic Director
Rocker
Stage Directions
Thrust Stage
45. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Vomitorium
Dimmers
Offstage
Gussets
46. Scenery that represents three-dimensional space on a flat surface
Technical Director
Front of House (FOH)
Overhung
Perspective Scenery
47. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
Grand Drape
Locking rail
Scrim
48. A hose connection for a fire hose
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Trap room
Rake
Stand pipe
49. 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
Stage Directions
Vomitorium
Batten Clamp
Board of Directors
50. A hose connection for a fire hose
FOH: Front of House
Stand pipe
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Lighting Designer