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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. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Tormentors
Gobo
Front of House (FOH)
Stand pipe
2. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Wings
Scenic Designer
Elevation
Cove
3. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Drop
Smoke Pocket
Masking
Wings
4. Levels of intensity
Stage Directions
olor Elevations
Dimmers
Circuit
5. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Pipe weight
Director
Production Manager
Gridiron
6. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Upstage
TPI
Proscenium Stage
Platforms
7. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Cove
Director
Section View
Stage Manager
8. Loft blocks in Zellerbach Playhouse are __________ for easier access and movement
Board of Directors
SAFETY
Pipe weight
Overhung
9. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Gussets
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Upstage
10. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Elevation
Fly Space
Overhung
Ground Plan
11. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Drop
Trump Ploy
Producer
Source 4 ERS
12. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Section View
Voltage
Fire Curtain
13. 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
Producer
ontinental Seating
Set Pieces
Loft Block
14. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Gel
ontinental Seating
Set Pieces
Scenic Director
15. 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
Cove
Arena Stage
Center Line
16. What type of stage is Zellerbach playhouse?
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Pipe weight
Vomitorium
Proscenium Stage
17. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Flats
Batten Clamp
Elevation
Channels
18. Pressure
Voltage
Drapery
Scrim
Master Electrician/Electrician
19. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Technical Director
ontinental Seating
Arena Stage
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
20. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Plaster Line
Milliner
Drop
Pipe weight
21. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Scenic Director
Center Line
Perspective Scenery
Source 4 ERS
22. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Pit
Production Manager
Upstage
Borders
23. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Sprinkling system
Pipe weight
Grand Drape
Fusible links
24. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Channels
ontinental Seating
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
25. Levels of intensity
Lighting Designer
Gobo
Producer
Dimmers
26. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Company Manager
Pipe weight
Producer
Vomitorium
27. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Head block
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Grand Drape
Dramaturg
28. Plug in wall
Circuit
Stand pipe
Arena Stage
Gobo
29. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Crossover
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Gobo
Rails & Styles
30. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Asbestos
Cues
Gussets
Thrust Stage
31. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Grand Drape
Loading Dock
Center Line
Perspective Scenery
32. A hose connection for a fire hose
Director
Dramaturg
Grand Drape
Stand pipe
33. 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
Center Line
Drop
Elevation
Board of Directors
34. (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
Actual vs. Nominal
Head block
Stand pipe
Borders
35. Painted set on the ground which the actors stand on
Scrim
Rails & Styles
Platform
Director
36. A system of rigging and ropes that is used to raise and lower scenery within on stage - operated by hand or mechanically from backstage.
Channels
Offstage
Production Manager
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
37. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Fire Curtain
Head block
Fly Space
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
38. One that makes - trims - designs hats; also sometimes handles accessories
Milliner
Rocker
Platform
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
39. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
Trump Ploy
Cues
Proscenium Stage
40. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Fly loft
SAFETY
Cyclorama
Set Pieces
41. 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
Proscenium Stage
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Cove
Cyclorama
42. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Scrim
Cove
short short - short - center - long - long long
43. 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
Artistic Director
Stage Manager
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Fresnel
44. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
FOH: Front of House
Look - listen - and learn
Proscenium Stage
Gussets
45. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Fusible links
Elevation
Loading Dock
Scenic Director
46. Grainer
Platforms
Rocker
Producer
Crossover
47. 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
Dimmers
Scrim
Fly Space
Borders
48. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Rocker
Gobo
Drapery
Ground Plan
49. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
Fly Space
Catwalk
olor Elevations
Fly loft
50. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Asbestos
Overhung
Catwalk
short short - short - center - long - long long