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Stagecraft Basics
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 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
Batten Clamp
Borders
Gridiron
Fly Space
2. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Locking rail
Production Manager
Loading Dock
Channels
3. Stage weights that remain on arbor when there are no scenery or lights attached
Drapery
Scenic Designer
Section View
Pipe weight
4. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Tormentors
Voltage
Head block
TPI
5. Any incline of audience or stage.
Rake
Black Box
Elevation
Two Fer
6. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Center Line
Scenic Designer
Producer
Artistic Director
7. 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.
Stand pipe
Trump Ploy
Center Line
Vomitorium
8. 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
short short - short - center - long - long long
Head block
Cyclorama
9. Metal connectors that holds the fire curtain in the air
Crossover
Drop
Fusible links
Set Pieces
10. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Head block
Gel
Arena Stage
Artistic Director
11. Final artistic choices go to
FOH: Front of House
Director
Stage Manager
Scenic Director
12. 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
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Overhung
Plaster Line
Cyclorama
13. What is anything downstage from the plaster line in a proscenium house?
Gridiron
Tormentors
FOH: Front of House
Voltage
14. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Scenic Designer
Board of Directors
Downstage
Section View
15. (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
Look - listen - and learn
Channels
Stage Manager
16. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Platforms
Circuit
Rocker
17. 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
Ground Plan
Wings
Cues
18. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Wings
ontinental Seating
Gel
Trap room
19. Connection between pipe batten and lift lines - before trim chain.
Channels
Batten Clamp
Grand Drape
Gobo
20. Flat view of area if cut or sliced - like a dissection and see inner workings of multiple levels
Section View
Dramaturg
olor Elevations
Batten Clamp
21. 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
Proscenium Stage
Stage Directions
Channels
Scrim
22. Plug in wall
Black Box
Circuit
Rails & Styles
Batten Clamp
23. 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
Board of Directors
SAFETY
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Actual vs. Nominal
24. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Dimmers
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
short short - short - center - long - long long
Overhung
25. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Ground Plan
Locking rail
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Front of House (FOH)
26. Everything filters through from Artistic Team - knows budget of time - labor - and money; keeps everyone in communication - conductor/diplomat
Stage Directions
Source 4 ERS
Look - listen - and learn
Production Manager
27. A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views as if through a picture frame
Stand pipe
Gel
Proscenium Stage
Ground Plan
28. Most effective device for controlling a fire in the theatre - or any building
Sprinkling system
Proscenium Stage
Head block
Asbestos
29. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Vomitorium
Voltage
Fresnel
Channels
30. Levels of intensity
Dimmers
Company Manager
Artistic Director
Channels
31. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Trump Ploy
Pipe weight
Drop
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
32. First rules of safety in theater
Look - listen - and learn
Batten Clamp
Fly Space
Proscenium Stage
33. A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies
Fire Curtain
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Board of Directors
Drop
34. Directions from the actor's point of view
Stage Directions
FOH: Front of House
Downstage
Proscenium Stage
35. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Apron
Drapery
Proscenium Stage
Cove
36. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Ground Plan
Rails & Styles
Plaster Line
Platform
37. Fire curtain used to be called this
Asbestos
FOH: Front of House
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Downstage
38. 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
Platform
Gobo
Cyclorama
Actual vs. Nominal
39. 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
Dimmers
Thrust Stage
Ground Plan
40. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Proscenium Stage
Pit
Crossover
Producer
41. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Stage Directions
Asbestos
Stand pipe
Drapery
42. A curtain that travels up and down inside a guide; fire curtain track
Proscenium Stage
Smoke Pocket
Black Box
Cyclorama
43. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Voltage
Milliner
Board of Directors
Flats
44. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Sprinkling system
Two Fer
Trump Ploy
Master Electrician/Electrician
45. 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.
Proscenium Stage
Center Line
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
Borders
46. Two instruments - same circuit
Cues
Production Manager
Stage Directions
Two Fer
47. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Producer
Cove
Production Manager
Wings
48. (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
Downstage
Fly loft
Actual vs. Nominal
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
49. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Sprinkling system
Channels
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Drop
50. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Dramaturg
Perspective Scenery
Masking
Cove