Question | Answer |
Hard Scenery | anything that is framed by hard material, flats and platforms |
Theatrical Flats | Hard Scenery, uses keystones, cornerblocks and toggles to keep it together |
TV/Hollywood Flats | Framing is on edge, hard covered |
Reveal | around window/door to make the flat look thicker |
Sil Iron | Strip of iron on the bottom of the door flat |
standard Platforms size | 4ftx8ft |
Stress skin platform | 2x2 frame 1/2" ply on both sides, low profile |
Parallels platform | Collapsible boxes for decks and platforms |
Soft scenery | Scenery with no framing |
Drape | Curtains, Masking, has vertical seems, made of velor |
Drop | Flat, no fullness, can be painted, made of muslin, horizontal seems |
Traveller | Drape that moves horizontally |
Tab curtain | Pulls diagonal from center |
Contor Curtain | Lines are vertical, longer at ends gives a circular opening |
Austrian Drape | scalloped at bottom, all lines the same hight and vertical, fulness is horizontal |
Pocket | Holds a chain or pipe for the soft scenery |
Cyc | a drop, back drop usually used for mixing colors, usually white (sometimes called a skydrop) |
Cut Drop | Middle cut out of muslin, can be walked through, usually down stage |
Netted cut drop | A cut drop that has netting in the area without muslin to keep its shape |
border | drop above stage |
legs | drops on the side of the stage |
batten | Pipe that attaches to scenery |
loft blocks | pulleys above scenery |
Head blocks | pulleys above weights |
Single purchase counter weight system | used to raise and lower scenery, it is weighted directly |
Arbor | holds the weights |
Locking rail | Locks the rope to not move |
Double purchase CW system | Moves half the distance, doubles the weight needed |
Roll or OLEO drop | Rolls drop up drom bottom around a pipe |
How to Fly hard scenery | attach from bottom |
casters | wheels on scenery |
dumb/strait casters | casters that don't swivle |
Smart/swivle casters | Casters that can swivle and turn |
Jack | Put on the back of a flat to keep it standing |
Tip Jack | It is tilted, lifts casters off floor when in position |
Wagon | platform on casters |
Pallet | Low profile platform, on rollers, has beveled edges |
Skid | Uses furnature glides, needs a smooth stage, very low profile |
Track | A grove in the floor that guide the platform |
Turntable/Revolve | turning platform using drives or winches |
Doughnut | a turn table going around another going in the opposite direction |
Lift | used to bring actors and small scenery to the stage above, smaller than elevator, built as part of scenery |
Elevator | Bigger than lifts, usually built into the theatre itself |
Jack Knife | a way of pivoting platforms on one pivot point |
Controllable qualities of light | Distrubution, Intensity, Color and Movement |
What makes up light distribution | direction, Quality, shape, size |
What are the functions of light? | visibility, selected focus, Modeling, Mood/atmosphere |