Set Design Quiz

What is forced perspective?

• Forcing the audience to focus on a particular part of the set

• A design technique to make an object appear further away or closer than it is

• Using minimal set pieces so the audience know where to look

What is a transition?

• The moment between scene

• When an actor changes into their costume

• The moment an actor transforms into their character

What is a gauze?

• A large cloth hung at the back of the stage

• Another name for the main stage curtain

• A thin curtain lit from the front or back to make it look opaque or transparent

What is a flat?

• A piece of scenery

• A stationary platform

• A type of curtain

How might a set designer create a 1970s living room?

• Yellow and browns within patterned walls and floors

• Stone walls with exposed wooden-plank flooring

• Elegantly painted walls with mosaic flooring

What is a revolve?

• A quick set change

• A device used to suspend actors in the air

• A turntable built into the stage floor

In set design, what is a truck?

• A turntable build into the stage floor

• A moving platform on which a piece of scenery is built

• An opening in the stage floor

What is a ground row?

• A long, low piece of stage scenery

• Stage flooring

• A part of the set fixed to the floor

What shapes might help create a more eerie atmosphere

• Soft shapes

• Sharp shapes

• Rounded shapes

What might a set designer need to do if they are designing a play with lots of fast paced scene changes?

• Encourage the director to cut down scenes

• Use lots of long blackouts for scene changes

• Keep the set design minimal