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Theatre Vocabulary
Technical Theatre Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scoop | worklight for the theatre |
| Shutters | make light into any shape |
| Convex Lens | curved on both sides |
| Ellipsodial | 575 watt fixture that can be fuzzy or sharp and can be made into any angle or shape and can be used with specialized effects machines |
| Par | 575 watt fixture that is always fuzzy and has 4 interchangeable lenses to change the beam angle |
| Realism | designer makes it feel real, so the audience thinks they're really there |
| Selective Realism | you make it look like there's more to the set that you can't see |
| Hue | Position of a color on the color wheel |
| Value | the light to dark relationship to a hue |
| Chroma | purity of a color or amount of neutrality; often refered to as intensity or saturation |
| Complentary Colors | one of 2 hues directly opposite each other on the color wheel |
| Tints | the lighter values close to white(yellows) |
| Shades | the darker values of a hue closer to black |
| Primary Colors of Light | red, blue, green |
| Primary Colors of Pigment | blue, red, yellow |
| Pigment | paint, dyes, colors that can touch your skin |
| Unity | demands that all elements of the set form a hole that centers around the theme of a play |
| Balance | weight. equal distribution of emphasis from one side of the stage to the other |
| Fresnel | the most commonly used light in the theatre |
| Theater | the building that the play is at |
| Theatre | the art of theatre |
| Flat | a fake theatrical wall |
| Luan | the wood used to make flats |