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Stagecraft Basics
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Study First
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. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Head block
Director
Cove
2. Final artistic choices go to
Plaster Line
Director
Proscenium Stage
Milliner
3. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Upstage
Fly Space
Production Manager
Set Pieces
4. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
Scrim
Trump Ploy
Gel
TPI
5. 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)
Lighting Designer
Plaster Line
Thrust Stage
6. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
ontinental Seating
olor Elevations
Rake
Cyclorama
7. 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
Overhung
Board of Directors
Dimmers
Apron
8. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Gel
Masking
Fire Curtain
Catwalk
9. Main wheel at the top of the counterweight arbor system
Loft Block
Head block
FOH: Front of House
Crossover
10. First rules of safety in theater
Platforms
Director
Look - listen - and learn
Circuit
11. Also called the main drape - the grand curtain - or the main rag; the one that has to open for the show to start
Trap room
Grand Drape
Ground Plan
Elevation
12. Two instruments - same circuit
Director
Master Electrician/Electrician
Two Fer
Scenic Designer
13. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Arena Stage
TPI
Locking rail
Channels
14. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Fresnel
Drop
Circuit
Source 4 ERS
15. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rails & Styles
Tormentors
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Gel
16. To use a fire extinguish (acronym)
Pipe weight
Platforms
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
ontinental Seating
17. (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
SAFETY
Actual vs. Nominal
Producer
Asbestos
18. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Arena Stage
Cove
Rocker
Director
19. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
Gobo
ontinental Seating
Stand pipe
Rails & Styles
20. Six steps to hang a light (fresnel or ellipsoidals)
Gel
Proscenium Stage
Gussets
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
21. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Artistic Director
Front of House (FOH)
Smoke Pocket
Vomitorium
22. Levels of intensity
Catwalk
olor Elevations
Dimmers
Fly Space
23. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
Grand Drape
Fly loft
Platforms
Director
24. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Rocker
Platforms
Fly loft
Offstage
25. Makes shoes
Producer
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Master Electrician/Electrician
Proscenium Stage
26. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Dimmers
olor Elevations
Masking
Fly Space
27. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Masking
Gussets
FOH: Front of House
Channels
28. Directions from the actor's point of view
Grand Drape
Stage Directions
Vomitorium
Section View
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
Downstage
Trump Ploy
Milliner
Flats
30. Best friends with Sound Tech in that both work hand in hand - makes everything work (elec) - wires - hangs - plugs & focuses according to Lighting Designer
Master Electrician/Electrician
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Cove
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
31. Concierge - takes care of everyone - handles contracts
Producer
Milliner
Perspective Scenery
Company Manager
32. 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
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
Tormentors
Gridiron
Stage Manager
33. A thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects
Stage Manager
Scenic Director
Gel
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
34. Space above the stage - Space above the stage where scenery may be lifted out of sight by means of ropes and pulleys
Scenic Designer
Gel
Fly loft
Platform
35. Fire curtain used to be called this
Trap room
Dramaturg
Asbestos
Borders
36. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
Locking rail
Plaster Line
olor Elevations
37. Pressure
Fusible links
Circuit
Voltage
Two Fer
38. Hanging cloth used as a blind - especially for a window
Channels
Master Electrician/Electrician
Drapery
Shoe Maker/Foot wear
39. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Channels
Circuit
Asbestos
Section View
40. 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
Elevation
Loft Block
Dimmers
41. Levels of intensity
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Voltage
Dimmers
Channels
42. Designer that usually determines the color of the show
Circuit
Scenic Designer
Stage Manager
Platforms
43. Imaginary line from one side of the proscenium opening tot he other - divides apron from the stage floor.
Producer
Plaster Line
Dramaturg
Fly Space
44. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Overhung
Artistic Director
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Milliner
45. 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
Stage Directions
Fly Space
Perspective Scenery
Black Box
46. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Rocker
Stand pipe
Set Pieces
Rails & Styles
47. An imaginary line running from the front to the back of the stage through the exact center of the proscenium arch
Overhung
Gridiron
Center Line
Scrim
48. Grainer
Rocker
Platform
Trap room
Offstage
49. 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.
Director
Perspective Scenery
Proscenium Stage
ERS (Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight)
50. Grainer
Drapery
Cyclorama
Rocker
Masking