Lighting and Sound
I. STAGE LIGHTING
A. A Brief History of Stage Lighting
B. Objectives and Functions of Lighting Design
1. Visibility
2. Shape and form
3. Focus and composition
4. Mood and style
5. Time and place
6. Rhythm
7. Reinforcement of the central image
C. Achieving the Objectives: The Lighting Designer
1. The process of lighting design
2. Qualities of stage lighting
a. Intensity
b. Color
c. Direction
d. Form
e. Movement
3. The lighting designer's resources
a. Types of stage lights
i. Soft-edged spotlights
ii. Sharp, concentrated spotlights
iii. Floodlights, "scoops," strip lights, and border lights
b. Lighting controls
c. New technology in stage lighting
4. The lighting designer's collaborators
II. SOUND IN THE THEATER
1. Theater Sound: Advantages and Disadvantages
2. Sound Effects
3. Sound Reproduction and Sound Reinforcement
4. Sound Technology
1. Microphones and loudspeakers
2. Sound recordings
3. New technologies in sound
IDENTIFY OR DEFINE
1. Lighting designer
2. Argand lamp
3. Gaslight
4. Spill
5. Split stage
6. Focus
7. Light Plot
8. Cues
9. Dimmers
10. Gel
11. Warm and cool colors
12. Direction
13. Footlights
14. Downlighting
15. Backlighting
16. Backlighting
17. Fresnel
18. Follow spot
19. Floodlights, or "scoops"
20. Strip lights
21. Border lights
22. Blackout
23. Fade
24. Cross-fade
25. Automated-lights, or moving lights
26. Pan
27. Tilt
28. Iris
29. Templates, or gobos
30. Sound designer
31. Sound reproduction
32. Sound reinforcement
33. Motivated sounds
34. Environmental sounds
35. Sound effects
36. Shotgun mike
37. Body mike
38. General mike
39. Editing
40. Mixing