Theatrical elements
**** Golden role: Everything on stage has a meaning! ****
Visual (anything you can see)
Visual (anything you can see)
- Props-touched by an actor
* Ie: Guns, weapons, picture smashed on actors head- Set-anything on the stage not touched
*Ie: Furniture, tables- Lighting effects-projections - Pyro, haze, fog and dry ice - Actor dressing - Costume - Make-up
Theatre Architecture
Arena
-Audience surrounds stage
-Little or no scenery
-Props important
-Audience sees each other
*** add photos
Proscenium Theatre
Picture Frame
Fourth wall
Fly house
Apron (in front of curtain).
Legs (side curtains)
Most set
Most popular
The studio theatre
An open Box
Flexible staging
L shaped
Alley theatre
Function of Light
Illumination: The simple ability to see what is occurring on stage.
Revelation of form: Altering the perception of shapes onstage, particularly three-dimensional stage elements.
Focus: Directing the audience's attention to an area of the stage or distracting them from another.
Mood: Setting the tone of a scene. Harsh red light has a totally different effect than soft lavender light.
Location and time of day: Establishing or altering position in time and space. Blues can suggest night time while orange and red can suggest a sunrise or sunset.
Projection/stage elements: Lighting may be used to project scenery or to act as scenery onstage.
Plot(script): A lighting event may trigger or advance the action onstage.
Composition: Lighting may be used to show only the areas of the stage which the designer wants the audience to see, and to "paint a picture".
Lighting
**There are four main qualities or properties of lighting
Intensity- Measured in lux, lumens, and foot candle (brightness)
Color
Pattern- Shape, quality & Eveness of lamps
Focus- Where an instrument is pointed
Lighting instruments
Fixed instruments
* Fresnel
-Bulb mobes
-Lens is rippled
- Soft edge light
*Profile
- Lenses move focus
- Sharpe edges
- Lens is clear
- Can be used for gobos (Ie: windowframe)
Effects
- Dry ice heavy/cold
- Fog- floats around, hot, leaves quick
- Haze - stays in air, fine particles
