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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. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Proscenium Stage
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Pit
2. A performance space in which the audience sits all around the stage; sometimes called in-the-round
Scrim
Arena Stage
Pipe weight
Rails & Styles
3. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
TPI
Gel
Fresnel
Pipe weight
4. Scenic term - deceiving the eye: from far away looks real but close it's just tricky talent
Platform
Scrim
Trump Ploy
Borders
5. Flat view of area from a direction (north - south - east - west and in between)
Stage Directions
Black Box
Elevation
Platform
6. Grainer
Thrust Stage
Scrim
Loft Block
Rocker
7. Made up of dimmers - map of plot
Producer
Thrust Stage
Channels
Perspective Scenery
8. 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
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Elevation
Asbestos
9. Set that's on the ground to stand on; painted
Artistic Director
Channels
Milliner
Platforms
10. 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)
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Fly System: purchase (hand) lines
Scrim
11. Large portables pieces of the stage setting
Fusible links
Pipe weight
ontinental Seating
Set Pieces
12. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Smoke Pocket
Artistic Director
Catwalk
Apron
13. Front part or area of the stage extending past the main act curtain; also called lip
Apron
Rails & Styles
Lighting Designer
Scenic Designer
14. The side areas of the stage - out of view of the audience; the area where the actors wait for their entrances
Look - listen - and learn
Hang - tighten - pull shutters - chain - plug - and aim
Overhung
Wings
15. A metal cutout that is placed in front of the lens of a lighting instrument to create different shadowed images on stage
Gobo
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Platforms
Scenic Director
16. 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
Drop
Proscenium Stage
Stage Manager
Dramaturg
17. What kind of pipe batten does Zellerbach use/order?
Technical Director
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
Locking rail
Stand pipe
18. A narrow - elevated walkway above the stage or the house or stage where crew members might access lights or flown scenery
Catwalk
Offstage
Master Electrician/Electrician
Proscenium Stage
19. Corridor or hallway to make quick passage way from one side to another - behind stage
Batten Clamp
Source 4 ERS
Crossover
Technical Director
20. Helps to protect the audience from fires that happen on stage - comes in fast and helps to conceal the fire in one place
Channels
short short - short - center - long - long long
Wings
Fire Curtain
21. 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.
Pipe weight
Loft Block
Vomitorium
Loading Dock
22. The purchase (hand) line runs through the __________ so it can be secured in place.
Locking rail
Apron
Crossover
short short - short - center - long - long long
23. Flat view - floor plan of the stage and set (used to scale) - view of area if room came off
Ground Plan
short short - short - center - long - long long
Masking
Lighting Designer
24. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
Master Electrician/Electrician
Tormentors
Upstage
Offstage
25. Painted boards that the scenic designer uses to communicate with the scenic artist
olor Elevations
Technical Director
FOH: Front of House
Locking rail
26. Area above the stage where scenery - drops - and lights are hung when not in use
Stand pipe
Rocker
Fly Space
Center Line
27. (Framing) - Rails (shorter) always caps a style (long)
Cyclorama
Director
Platforms
Rails & Styles
28. Made of plastic or vinyl - can project lights and images from front or back of them.
Producer
Plaster Line
Offstage
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
29. 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
Vomitorium
Rocker
Catwalk
30. Teeth per inch (razors/blades) - fewer for softer wood - more cuts through metal (unforgiving)
1.5 inch (ID) schedule 40 - black pipe
TPI
Thrust Stage
SAFETY
31. Most commonly used lighting instrument in the theatre that we focused
Source 4 ERS
Flats
Overhung
Gobo
32. Lighting instrument whose name refers to the etched or contoured glass lens
Fresnel
PASS: Pull the pin - aim - squeeze - and sweep
Stand pipe
Crossover
33. Reinforcers that joints in wood and metal - anything that connects (Keystone - corner block - anything that bridges two pieces together )
Gussets
Perspective Scenery
Head block
Plaster Line
34. The part of the stage closest to the audience
Flats
Tormentors
Two Fer
Downstage
35. Also known as legs - flats or curtains at the extreme right and left of stage
olor Elevations
Fresnel
Tormentors
FOH: Front of House
36. Correct order of a 5 line system pipe
Fly loft
short short - short - center - long - long long
Source 4 ERS
Director
37. 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
Scenic Director
Platforms
Fusible links
38. Anything and everything in lobby - downstage from proscenium
Rear Projection Screens (RP Screens)
Asbestos
Front of House (FOH)
Scrim
39. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
Thrust Stage
Circuit
Rocker
Fly Space
40. Figures out place - theme of season and has final say
Loft Block
Channels
Catwalk
Artistic Director
41. Steel framework that runs above the stage that is used to support the rigging system
Smoke Pocket
Master Electrician/Electrician
Gridiron
Cove
42. Lighting position: anti-pro - or anti-proscenium
Fusible links
Cove
Master Electrician/Electrician
Fresnel
43. Fire curtain used to be called this
Director
Channels
Voltage
Asbestos
44. The area onstage furthest away from the audience
Batten Clamp
Proscenium Stage
Upstage
Trap room
45. The person who finds the financial investors - hires the director and production staff - sets the budget - and pays the bills for a theatrical production
Trump Ploy
Gel
Elevation
Producer
46. (Walls) - Flat pieces of theatrical scenery which are painted and positioned on stage so as to give the appearance of buildings or other background
Locking rail
Fly loft
Flats
Apron
47. 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
Platforms
Thrust Stage
Scenic Designer
Scrim
48. 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
Wings
Borders
Grand Drape
Gridiron
49. Orchestra pit where the band plays
Section View
Pit
Trap room
Production Manager
50. (Seating) entering & exiting at extreme ends; Zellerbach Playhouse is like this
ontinental Seating
Two Fer
Fusible links
Pipe weight