Key Terms Flashcards
(25 cards)
Abstract
Not realistic or life like, but instead using colours, shapes, textures sounds and other means to achieve an effect.
Accent
A way of pronouncing words that is associated with a particular country,region or social class.
Ad-libbing
Saying lines that aren’t in the script
Amplification
How sound is made louder
Analyse
To examine something, perhaps looking at different elements of it, and to explain it
Apron
The area of the stage nearest the audience which projects in front of the curtain
Archetypal
A typical example of someone or something; associated with an original or mythic quality of someone or something
Asides
When a character breaks out of the scene to briefly speak to the audience
Backdrop
A large painted cloth hung as part of the scenery
Beehive
A hairstyle popular in the 1950s and 1960s which hair was combed back into a high cone
Blackout
In lighting suddenly switching all the lights off
Bower
An enclosed shady place under branches of trees
Box office
Those who sell tickets
Box sets
A set with three complete walls, often used in naturalistic set designs, example to create a believable room
Chairography
Choreographed movement with chairs
Clapboards
Wooden boards used to cover the outside of the buildings
Covering
Learning the words and movements of a part that you do not usually perform
Cross cutting
Alternating between two different scenes
Cross fade
Fading lights out in one area of the stage while simultaneous bringing them up on another area
Dirndl
A dress or skirt often seen in traditional Austrian or Bavarian outfits which is gathered at the waist and falls to about knee length
Drapes
Curtains or other hanging fabric
Episodic
A series of loosely connected scenes
Fade in lighting
Gradually getting lighter or darker
Fade in sound
Gradually getting louder or softer
