Lighting

Question 1

Three forms of early stage lighting?

Answer 1

Daylight
Artificial lighting
Candles, Torches

Question 2

In what decade was LEKO developed?

Answer 2

1960’s

Question 3

Why is lighting important to a production?

Answer 3

Make stage more visible

Emphasize mood & atmosphere to the audience

Question 4

In what decade did the role of lighting designers become established?

Answer 4

1990’s

Question 5

Four main objectives of stage lighting?

Answer 5

Visibility - audience able to see everything on stage
Selecting focus - directing spectator’s attention to a specific place
Modeling - revealing of the form of an object through the pattern of highlight
Mood - how the audience feels

Question 6

Five qualities of light?

Answer 6

Movement
Color
Distribution
Intensity
Brightness

Question 7

What is intensity?

Answer 7

The brightness of color or light

Question 8

What is illumination?

Answer 8

When an object and people give off light and energy

Question 9

What is brightness?

Answer 9

Light that strikes the stage

Question 10

Hue

Answer 10

Purity of color

Question 11

Primary colors

Answer 11

Hues that can’t be divided into or blended using any other colors. Red, blue, green in pigment

Question 12

Secondary color

Answer 12

Result of mixing two primary colors

Question 13

Complementary colors

Answer 13

Hues when combined, theoretically, yield, while in white or blank in pigments, color that are opposite to each other

Question 14

Subtractive filtering

Answer 14

The selective absorption of light by a filler of pigment

Question 15

Additive filtering

Answer 15

Filtering of additional light

Question 16

Theater light angles

Answer 16

Up light - scary
Top light - angelic
Side light right - right of an actor on stage
Side light left - left of an actor on stage
Back light - cannot see any part of a face
Front light - can see all of a face
45 degrees right
45 degrees left
Even light (45 degrees front and back)- glowing

Question 17

Light plot

Answer 17

A diagram

Question 18

Scrim

Answer 18

A drop made of fabric

Question 19

Back light

Answer 19

Above and behind

Accent performers and set them apart from the background

Question 20

Sidelight

Answer 20

Wings of off-stage

Accentuate facial features or costumes

Question 21

Fill light

Answer 21

Fills shadows

Aired at the acting area

Question 22

Key light

Answer 22

Strong source of light aimed at the acting area

Question 23

Gelatin

Answer 23

Transplant color medium

Question 24

Strip light

Answer 24

Lights arranged in metal throughs

Question 25

Fresnel

Answer 25

Spotlight with a soft edge

Question 26

Floodlight

Answer 26

Unfocused light

Question 27

Follow spot

Answer 27

Follow or pick up a person or object moving on stage

Question 28

Ellipsoidal reflector spotlight (ERS)

Answer 28

LEKO

lighting instrument that looks ellipsoidal

Question 29

Light panel

Answer 29

Brightness of light controlled

Question 30

Dimmer

Answer 30

Electrical device that controls the amount of current flowing through lamp
Decrease or increase the intensity of light

Question 31

Spotlight

Answer 31

Focus light on very specific at of the stage

Spot

Question 32

Light cue sheet

Answer 32

Light technicians’ guide for all lighting changes

Number, page, cue line, desired effect requested

Question 33

Simplest way to create a lighting plot?

Answer 33

Use a copy of the set designer’s ground plan (set within the theatre space) ** read more about it

Question 34

Light panel map

Answer 34

Panel and stage lights 
House
(Audience)
Apron pipe
1st electric
2nd electric