Lighting Review Quiz

The Lighting Designer's most important job is to...

• Tell people on stage where to be and how to act

• Memorize lines and play a strong character

• Both A & C

• Make sure the audience can clearly see the actors and set.

A ____ is a metal disk that has a pattern cut out like stars or a city scape. When in front of a light, it projects the image onto the cyclorama or stage.

• Gel

• Gobo

• Gabagoo

• LED

What a lighting designer MUST determine (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)

• How many lights of each type are needed

• The precise angle each light is tilted at

• The alternative light source needed in case you didn't want to light a stage scene

• Brightness and intensity levels

• The colors and color combinations (gels)

For over 100 years, stage lighting used traditional incandescent bulbs. But many theatres are opting for ___'s (Light Emitting Diodes). (HINT: 3 letters)

Match the following terms to their

• Light Emitting Diodes; energy efficient

• Fresnels

• The back of the stage effect; "blank"

• LED

• Intense, narrow beams of light

• ERS

• Operated from back of audience w/ SM

• Cycloramas

• Softer, wider beams of light

• Lighting Board

Which of the following define a lighting plot?

• Gives instructions for electricians and lighting crew to know how the design will be implemented.

• Gives pictures to stage managers and directors to finish planning blocking.

• A map of the audience space to plan out where all of the lights are for the spectators.

• None of the above.

Some advantages of LEDs are that it lasts ______, is more ______ efficient, and _______ to maintain. Whereas some DISadvantages are that it is _________!

• Energy

• Longer

• Cheaper

• Expensive

These lights are versatile lights that can swivel and move to change light direction in real time

• Strip lights

• Follow spots

• LED lights

• Moving/automated lights