Midterm

Question 1

Quality of Stage Lighting: Direction

Answer 1

Direction from where the light is coming from. Sidelight, downlight, up light, etc.

Question 2

What is “photometrics” the study of?

Answer 2

Study of light over distance in relationship to the diameter of a light and the brightness
Ex. The measurement of the brightness of the light which a human eye can perceive is called Photometry.

Question 3

What is a “light plot”?

Answer 3

Map of where the lights are hung up in a theatre.

Question 4

What is an “instrument schedule”?

Answer 4

An excel sheet with lights organized by position.

Question 5

What is a “channel list”?

Answer 5

Excel sheet with information of lights organized by channels.

Question 6

What are the lighting positions called upstage the plaster line?

Answer 6

Electric pipes, Electrics, EP

Question 7

What are the lighting positions called downstage the plaster line?

Answer 7

Front of House (FOH)

Question 8

What is a “Fresnel”? Reflector? Lens? Primary Use?

Answer 8

It is a full or top light that uses a spherical reflector and a Fresnel lens to focus and direct the light in a specific direction while producing a soft light.

Question 9

What is a “PAR”? Reflector? Lens?
Primary Use?

Answer 9

It is a Parabolic Aluminized Reflector used as a backlight and side light.

Question 10

What is an “ERS”? Reflector? Lens?
Primary Use?

Answer 10

It is a Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight with a plano convex lens used as a hard light, dance booms, and specials.

Question 11

What is the purpose of “front lights”?

Answer 11

Front light creates attractive two-dimensional images with few shadows.
Top light - atmosphere
Back light - dimension

Question 12

What is the purpose of a “border light”?

Answer 12

3 dimensionality and drops.

Question 13

What is the “plaster line”?

Answer 13

“4th wall”, or imaginary line that separates audience and stage.

Question 14

What is the “center line”?

Answer 14

It marks the center of the theatre which bisects the right and left part of the stage.

Question 15

In what direction do you number lights?

Answer 15

You number them from right to left

Question 16

Quality of Stage Lighting: Intensity

Answer 16

The amount of light or brightness of the light which is striking the stage and/or actors. Controlled through dimmers.

Question 17

Qualities of Stage Lighting: Movement/Cueing

Answer 17

Movement of a practical source of lighting on stage.
Movement of an offstage light source such as a follow spot or intelligent lighting fixture.
Lighting cues (one light or a set of lights go out while another comes up.

Question 18

Qualities of Stage Lighting: Instrumentation

Answer 18

The type of lighting instrument used and the quality of light it produces.

Question 19

Qualities of Stage Lighting: Color

Answer 19

The use of color media in front of a light source to produce a certain color onstage. Every color is a hue. Every hue family can range from saturated to tint as if in a sliding gradation scale.

Question 20

Functions of Stage Lighting: Selective Visibility/Focus

Answer 20

Putting emphasis on the part of the stage in which the action takes place. Done so by increasing the intensity in the desired location, changing color, or direction.

Question 21

Functions of Stage Lighting: Plausibility

Answer 21

The appropriateness of lighting design. What time of day is it? Where does the action take place, indoors/outdoors? Does the show take place in a realistic setting?

Question 22

Functions of Stage Lighting: Atmosphere

Answer 22

The creation of a place specially suited to the actor or setting at a specific moment. The quality of the light in different places. (The feeling of something; environment)

Question 23

Functions of Stage Lighting: Revelation of Form

Answer 23

The giving of shape to scenery or actors onstage. If something is lit from from the front only it will appear to be flat and two dimensional. even if it is three dimensional.
The use of lighting from different directions gives objects three dimensionality.

Question 24

Functions of Stage Lighting: Composition

Answer 24

The tying together of all the visual elements. Similar to graphic designer a lighting designer uses line, color texture, value, proportion and mass to achieve balance, focus, emphasis, and an overall pleasing stage picture. Painting the stage with light. The overall pictoral effect. This is the hardest “function of stage lighting to achieve.
Communication with other designers and the director is the key.