Knowledge, Understanding and Vocabulary: Set and Props Flashcards
What is ‘Stage Furniture’?
What is a Gauze and how can it be used?
What is a Cyclorama?
What is a ‘truck’ in the theatre?
What is ‘Projection Mapping’ and how are you using it in one of your exam text design?
What is a ‘flat’?
What is a ‘wing’?
How many different materials can you identify that a Set Designer can use on stage to create set and props? What are their properties?
- Lumber
- Softwoods (pine, fir)
- Hardwoods (oak, maple)
- Plywood
-MDF
-Paints - Adhesives
- Fasteners
- Foam
- Plastics
- Metals
-Fabrics
How many ways can you identify that a Set and Props designer can work with their materials?
Painting / weathering / aging / adding texture / sculpting / moulding / rigging / Polishing / Welding / Cutting / Warping
Identify 5 special effects that a set designer can use in their designs
Rain Machine / Smoke Machine / Hydraulics / Pyrotechnics / Revolve
What is rigging?
What is a Drum Revolve?
What is Set Dressing?
Smaller items that add details to a set, such as
stage furniture to help establish setting and era
What is a Platform and how are you using one in one of your exam text set designs?
What is ‘scaling’ in set design?
What is the name given to an opening through the stage floor often leading to a large open space under the stage?
A trapdoor
What is the term to describe a stage that slopes downwards towards the audience?
Raked
