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

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