THA110 Final
Terms
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- Props
- objects held or moved by actors in some way transported
- Scene (set)
- Something that is used on stage but is not transported/ is stationary.
- Objectives of Designers (7)
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-Create an environment for performers
-Set tone and style for production
-Distinguish in the theatre between realistic and non-realistic elements
-Establish locale ad period (time period)
-Where appropriate provide entral metaphor or images
-Coordinate scenery w/ other production elements
-Solve practical problems - Tools of Designer (6)
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-Line
-Color
-Mass
-Texture
-Visual Composition
-Movement - Work of Designer (4)
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-Identify basic scenic elements required by script
-Identify imagry and metaphors outlined in script
-Reflect on mood and style required in script
-Be responsive to director about all of the above - Processes of the Designer (5)
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-Conversation/Dialogue
-Sketches
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-Ground Plan
-Shop Drawings (blue prints) - Objectives of Lighting Designer (5)
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-Visibility(coverage)
-Control Focus (individual lights.. ie specials)
-Establish mood/atmosphere (different colors/brightness)
-Establish Rhythmn
-Establish Realistic and Non-realistic elements - Lighting Designer's Artistic Tools (5)
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-Intensity-Brightness
-Color-gel-plastic transparent that is colored
-Angle-Shadow
-Texture-Pattern infront of light
-Focus-size and shape - Factors influencing clothing (6)
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-Weather
-Planned Activities
-Style
-Mood
-Availability
-Time of day or year - Costume Designer Tools (5)
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-Color
-Style(what's in?)
-Period
-Line/Cut(Tailored/box cut)
-Texture(Fabric,weight,feel) - Costume Designer Objectives (3)
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-Clothe the performers
-Reveal the character
-Help Actor embody the role - Black Playwrights
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Helped shape the american theater better
-Not stereotyping blacks - Musicals
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-Most unique american genre for plays
-Emphasizes unique excitement from a dazzling live spectacle - The Critics
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-Review
-Friends/peers
-Actors in film/play
-Premise-preview/trailor
-Genre/style - Questions asked by the critic(3)
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-What are the artists attempting to do?
-Are they successful?
-Identify relevancy to society? - Role Of the Audience Member:Audience brings (4)
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-Knowledge and Personal memories
-Social, political, philosphical, world of present day & of whom play was written
-Information about:play, playwright, and artists
-Individual expectations of the event - Audience Skills (6)
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-Concentration
-Perception
-Openmindedness
-Imagination
-Emotionally Responsive
-Expressive skills (emotions) - American Drama
- theme setting and characterisation explore american experience.
- Syndicate
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Nation wide organization of booking agents formed by a group of theatrical entreprenuers in 1896
-Headed by charles frohman - Theatrical innovation was spurred by what?
- Small Community theaters or Little Theaters
- Stage Realism
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Nuanced characterization w/ concern for social environment.
-1940's-1950's - NAACP
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-National association for the advancement of colored people
-Gives prizes to promising black playwrights. - What is Art?
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-The study of art is the study of relative value from thing to thing
-A challenge of things or life that is different from others opinions - What is the purpose of art?
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-To challenge people/society/audience.
-To interpret and analyze art and relate it to life - Beckett
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-Served in the French Resistance during WWII
-Directed his own plays
-Beckett wrote in french
-Most influential european dramatist of the postwar period.
-Wrote Endgame - True West Characters
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-Austin-Screenwriter,rich
-Lee-older brother, dirty, takes austins job
-Saul Kimmer, guy who is in southern cali to talk to austin
-Mom, mother of lee and austin - True West Setting
- Southern California, near Los Angeles
- Endgame: In a game of chess, describe the situation at the point where the term "endgame" is applicable?
- Stalemate, or Checkmate
- Endgame:What is the piece of furniture that Hamm sits on during the play?
- A chair with wheels on it
- Endgame: Hamm is deprived of which of the five senses?
- Sight
- Endgame: 3 Props used by characters in the play?
- Biscut, Scarf, Alarm Clock
- Endgame: What color is Nell's face?
- White, Pale
- Endgame: What color is Clov's face?
- Red