Stagecraft: Midterm Review

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The physical space with which the piece unfolds. Hleps define place and time. Can tell you you're in no place or time. Communuicates biggeer concepts.

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Scenery

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Everything added to the physical space

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Props

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the painting of scenery/props

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Scene Painting

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Anything worn by the character

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Costume

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Anything pertaining to putting light on the stage/lack of light. Any use of light

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Lighting

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Anything aural. Includes the actors' voices. The way you augment that. use of sound effects.

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Sound

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Person in control of the entire performance once it starts. Eyes and ears of director. head of rehearsal process

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Stage Manager

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The 4 Major Designers

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Scenery
Costume
Lighting
Sound
*Projection

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This type of theater is a company with investors trying to make money

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Profit

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A type of theater. Any money made at the end of the year is put back into the system. Nobody makes money. Tax exempt. Generally aim to enhance society.

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Non-Profit

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this distinguishes professional from non-professoinal theater

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The actors get paid

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Meeting where director, stage manager, designers, department heads, etc. walk through the show technically. Figure out cues.

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Paper Technical Rehearsal

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Hang the lighting instruments

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Electrics Hang

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Aka the "in." Put all scenery into the theater.

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Scenery Load in

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Taking each lighting instrument and pointing it where they want it to go. Set parameters.

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Lighting Focus

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Lightig designer, crew, director look at the lighting cues w/o actors on stage

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Level set time

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rehearsal in theater with actors, adding all technical aspects of the show

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Technical Rehearsal

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Anythign related to the area from the stage out. Involves ushers, audience, ticket operations, etc.

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Front of House

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Tech rehearsal without the actors

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Dry Tech

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Skip big scenes and songs. Go from technical cue to technical cue. Usually used when there's issues of time.

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Cue-to-Cue

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Add all elements, including costumes and run show

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Dress Rehearsal

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In charge of execution of scene design. In charge of money, schedule, etc.

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technical director

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In charge of organization and managing of the carpentry staff

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Master Carpenter

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In charge of physical space of the scene shop

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Scene Shop Foreman

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Responsible for execution of the painting of scenery. Often in close connection with tech director

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Scenic Charge Artist

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responsible for execution of props

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Props Master

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something relating to fabric

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soft goods

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developing things using paper

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paper goods

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Creates visual elements of what that character is

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Costume Designer

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runs costume shop

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Costume Shop Supervisor

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takes designs and puts it to pattern form

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Draper

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Desights where the lighting goes, cues, etc.

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Lighting Designer

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Responsible for the execution of the design

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Master Electrician

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In charge of aural elements of show

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Sound Designer

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Responsible of execution of sound design

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Head Sound Engineer

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A big tower above the theater for storing scenery.

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Fly Loft

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Overhead walkways for moving around for technical reasons.

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catwalks

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Catwalk all the way at the top for loading weights

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Load Rail

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Block the audience's view. Absorbs all light. Usually made of velour

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Mask

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Covers stage from audience. Comes in and out to seperate. Heavy velour.

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Curtain

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The house curtian. Oftne with pleats.

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Grand Drape

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Sits on top in front of Grand Drape. Helps to mask the fly wall. usually velour

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Grand teaser/Valance

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hard or soft narrow vertical drapes that mask the wings

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Legs

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Long but short drape that acts as a header between two drapes to cover the fly equiptment

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Boarder/Teaser

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Big painted piece of fabric

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Drop

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"Fancy magical fabric" made of cotton. Depending on the light it can appear opaque or translucent.

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Scrim

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another name for the pulleys in a fly system

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Loft Blocks

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Simplest fly system. Ropes made of hemp. Often uses sandbags as counterweights.

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Hemp System

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The most common fly system, developed in the early part of the 20th century. Uses steel cables and metal counterweights attached to an arbor. Load rail at the top. Locks on lines at load rail.

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Single Purchase Counterweight System

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the baton and it's lines and it's system

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Line System

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Used primarily where you dont' have a lot of wing space so you can have a whole fly system in half the space

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Multi-speed Line Set

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motorized. Most common is a single purchase counterweight system with an electric motor.

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Winch Driven System

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The benefits of wood:

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fairly strong
easy to work with
easy to paint
fairly inexpensive
can last a long time
fairly good sound absorption

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Downside of wood:

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Flammable
can rot over time
natural product w/natural irregularities
Only bends to certian point before breaking
Limited in it's legnth and width

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From decidouous trees

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Hard Wood

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From coniferous trees. Most commonly used in theater.

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Soft Wood

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The different grades of wood

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Select a-d and common 1-5

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3/4 of an inch thick. Comes in: 1x3,4,5,8,10,12. Variety of legnths by 2's from 8-16'

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One by

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standard scenery wood

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Number 2 common white pine

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Made of different layers. Grains run in alternate directions.

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Plywood

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Like plywood. Smooth, even wood. Grows fast and straight with few knots. made with a thin veneer on either side and layers in between. Made like plywood

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Lauan

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Made of wood chips and pieces. Variety of thicknesses. Rougher texture. Easy to use

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Oriented Strand Board (OSB)

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Made with fine particles of sawdust pressed together in a press with glue. Tepmered for a clean surface.

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Masonite, aka hardboard

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Inside a lot of cabinates. Good for flooring. Fairly cheap.

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Medium Density Fiber Board (MDFB)

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Slightly bigger pieces. Medum sized pieces of wood. Not quite as dense as other materials.

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Particle Board

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Made of layers and layers of paper. Dense. Can be cut nicely into brick shapers.

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Homosode

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Thick paper product. Used when you want a different paint surface

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Upson Board

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Foam interior with thin layers of wood and paper on the sides. Lightweight yet strong. Good flat paint surface.

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Gatorfoam

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Alloy of iron and carbon. Easy workable metal

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Steel

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Natural element. A type of metal often used in theater

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Aluminium

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Advantages of Steel

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Stronger
variety of shapes
can weld it
can be made without natural defects

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Disadvantages of Steel

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weight
can rust
harder to work with

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Cardboard tube. A form for concrete for making pillars in the real world

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Sonotube

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used often as a duplicate for glass

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acrillic/plexiglass

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used in piping format a lot. More structure than sonotube but lighter than metal

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PVC

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lightweight, easilyworked material

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Styrofoam

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Styrafoam made with little beads. Less dense. can pull it apart

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EPS

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Really easy to work with. Used in fine sculpting.

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Polyeurothene