DRAM 1310 Ch. 14: Designers and Technicians – Flashcards
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The order and process of developing a design for a play could be summarized by the following steps:
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reading the play, researching, imagining, creating a physical presentation, collaborating, approving for the budget, ensuring viability, implementing.
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Realistic costuming took over when which of the following became a major guiding principle in drama?
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historical accuracy
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All of the following are elements the scenic designer might take into consideration when creating the visual presentation of the staging EXCEPT
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underscoring
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All of the following take part in the design of the staging EXCEPT
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the house manager.
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The picture frame stage reached its highest realization in the
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Restoration
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Which of the following types of stage is completely surrounded by audience?
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arena
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During performances, the person fully in charge of overseeing the execution of the show is the
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production stage manager
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Which kind of stage consists of a bare room able to adapt to a variety of staging possibilities?
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black box
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The development of _____ fostered the great period of scenery design.
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the artificially illuminated indoor theatre
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What kind of scenery attempts to depict, in great detail, a specific time and place in the observable world where the play's events are presumed to take place?
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realistic
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What kind of scenery uses evocative visual images to make a visual statement about the production's intended mood or theme?
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metaphorical
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Makeup can serve all the functions EXCEPT which of the following?
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Makeup may be used to help improve the actor's diction.
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Which is an example of stereophonically located sound design?
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an airplane flying overhead from left to right
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Consider the staging for the Classic Stage Company's production of Waiting for Godot (1998): a backdrop depicting an abstract moon and stars, a bare floor, low lighting, and dark costumes. This staging would most likely invoke a feeling of
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bleakness
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The type of set that fostered a uniquely architectural theory of theatre was
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the theatre of the fourth wall removed.
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What is NOT an example of projection design as it existed before its contemporary usage?
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Shakespeare's plays using shadows in front of lanterns to simulate monsters
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Which of the following is NOT a postmodern design element?
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furniture taken directly from people's homes
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In describing dramatic space as "psycho-plastic," which "scenographer" (Europe's most celebrated in the 20th century) said "The goal of a designer can no longer be a description of a copy of actuality, but the creation of its multidimensional model?"
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Joseph Svoboda
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What is the name for curved scenic backdrop at the rear of the stage often representing the sky, or skyline?
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cyclorama
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Which person is responsible for the building and operation of stage machinery and scenery; scheduling lighting and industrial crews; moving scenery in and out of the theatre; and establishing policies and directives for scene shifting?
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technical director
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Turntables, elevators, hoists, cranes, rolling carts, and wagons, which are all used as scenic elements to accompany and support the dramatic action, are collectively called
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stage machinery
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Makeup, like costuming, is
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both ceremonial and illustrative.
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Which invention brought lighting to the stage in its modern form and made lighting a more controlled part of the drama?
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the gaslight
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The theatricalist use of lighting in Brecht's didactic theatre calls for
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the lighting instruments being exposed and placed in full view of the audience.
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A plan or series of plans showing the placement of each lighting instrument—its type, wattage, size, wiring and connection to a dimmer, and color is called
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a light plot.
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Which of the following is true of the history of lighting in scene design?
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Even before the advent of electricity, designers attempted to manipulate lighting with candles, oil lamps, and reflective surfaces.
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The ancient and original use of costume was to
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separate the actor from the audience.
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The production stage manager presides over the working and timing of lighting cues, ensuring that the lights support the play's action and aesthetic.
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False
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The use of makeup signals to the audience that the actor is a performer.
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True
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In ancient Greek drama, rotating prisms, rolling platforms, and painted panels probably had no representational significance.
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False
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The movement toward scenic abstraction began with the theoretical and occasionally practical works of Adolphe Appia.
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True
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The most exciting new development in lighting design is LED technology.
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True
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The name given to the boards that elevate the actors above the level of the audience is a flat.
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False
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Platforms, flats, and drapery are the traditional building blocks of fixed stage scenery.
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True
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A loosely woven fabric that looks opaque when lit from one side and transparent when lit from the other side is called a cyclorama.
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False
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Common goals of lighting design are verisimilitude and atmosphere.
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False
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A list of occasions referred to by number, keyed to the script of the play to indicate changes in intensity or use, is called a light plot.
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False
