SEMIS Flashcards
is a theater production with many songs and dances.
Musical Play
They provide different story.
Musical Play
It is popular and usually lighter from musical drama than the opera.
Musical Play
A musical theatre performer must be aware of the different responsibility’s musicians have with the presence of digital tech. One of the most remarkable changes is the use of tracked or pre-recorded music in live performance settings.
Technology and Music
uses technology in a multitude of configurations to capture the audio and present it to the audience in a particular way. Soundboards are now fully digital and can completely edit any instrument voicing through the use of preamps and synthesizers
Technology and sound design
can be very noticeable onstage as hydraulics lift in large props or set pieces. In usual condition, many traditional items in theatre rigging now rely on automatic timed responses from its technology.
Automation
This one does not particularly pertain to the day-to-day functioning of a theatre, but probably, it has the largest effect on the theatre community collectively. The days of traditional advertising are dwindling, and social media is quickly becoming the most remarkable way to sell tickets.
Social Media and Theatre
Media functions as scenery to the extent that it defines the environment within which the performer is acting.
Media as scene
Any object in a virtual scene will function as a prop as soon as a performer uses it.
Media as prop
when the live performer relates to it as an independent agent that is, as a subject in its own right with sentience and volition.
The relationship between the live performer and the virtual actor is responsive and interactive.
Media as actor
in conventional theatre move in conjunction with performers, merging with them to define the character’s identity. In the same way, media that functions as a virtual costume is coextensive with the performer.
Media as costume
it reflects the actions of the performers. The most stereotyped example is the kind of live-feed video used to help spectators see close-ups of musical performances and athletic events in huge stadium venues.
Media as mirror
Finally, the media can function as a virtual audience by responding to the live performance. While media-as-actor engages in a two-way interaction with the performers, media-as-audience engages in a one-way interaction. To adopt a term from film theory, it is non- diegetic, functioning out of the live performer’s frame.
Media as audience
refers to the timing and pace of the drama. It also means the beat or tempo of the performance.As a rule, _________ should never be the same throughout the drama, regardless of its length.
Rhythm
is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space.
Balance
the elements used on one side of the design are similar to those on the other side
symmetrical balance
the sides are different but still look balanced
asymmetrical balance
the elements are arranged around a central point and may be similar.
radial balance
is the part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention. Usually the artist will make one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas. The area could be different in size, color, texture, shape, etc.
Emphasis
uses the elements of art (color, line, shape, form, value, space, texture) as a vehicle to create a sense of togetherness among otherwise separate parts.
Harmony
is the feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of f art, which creates a sense of completeness.
Unity
is the use of several elements of design to hold the viewer’s attention and to guide the viewer’s eye through and around the work of art.
variety
is the feeling of unity created when all parts (sizes, amounts, or number) relate well with each other
Proportion
are the people onstage who present characters in dramatic action.
Performers
The ____________come to see performers pretend to be someone else. Moreover, when the performer is on stage, he must be believable as the character he is portraying or else the audience will be less interested in the production.
Audience
The essence of theater is the interaction between the performer and _____________.
Theater needs to be experienced live. There is a “call and response” atmosphere that can be witnessed in a theatre. In a live theater experience, when the _________________laughs out loud, or cries, then the actors respond to that energy unlike in movie wherein there is no connection between the actors and ___________, only reactions from the ____________.
Audience
performers understand the text and deliver the script excitingly and appropriately.
The directors also makes sure the blocking, costume designs, set designs and other aspects of the show blend together to make a production that works together.
All the aspects of theater should complement each other, and the director oversees all these things.
director
Another necessary element of theater is the space in which performers or audiences come together.
It is essential to have a stage, or some equivalent area, where actors and actresses can perform. It is also essential to have a place for audience members to sit or stand.
Theater Space
these are considered a spectacle and include the physical relationship of the actors on the stage and with the audience, the theatre types, stage, stage settings and designs, lighting design, costume design and properties or the set and hand props of the play.
Visual Aspects
it includes sound and background music
Nonvisual Aspect
Also known as script, the final element essential to theater is the text that is performed, and it must be present for theater to occur.
One of the key elements in writing the script is the conflict.
Without conflict, the story would be bland and boring.
Text
It portrays life on stage with close attention to detail, based on observation of real life.
Cause and effect are central to the script’s structure, with the subjects focused on conflicts of “nature vs. nurture,” the natural order of things, survival, notions of evolution. The production style is one of everyday reality.
Naturalism
