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Scenic art1
Scenic Art basics
| 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 |
| 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 |
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