Notes on Chapters from the Textbook (late)

ALL NOTES WERE TAKEN FROM THE BOOK
THESE ARE NOT MY OWN NOTES.

Directors:

• Auteur Director - Author director
• made after ww2
• French film critics refered to different directors after this theory.
• associated with points of view
  
• Dramaturg - literary manager or dramatic adviser of a theater company
  
• stage manager - person who coordinates all the rehearsals for the director
  
• pace - rate of the performance
  
• front of the house - all of the nonproduction elements
  
• artistic director - person responsible for creativeness.

Stage Design:

• Aesthetic distance - Physical/mental separation from audience
  
• Arena stage - stage surrounded by the audience
  
• Thrust stage - theater space in which the audience sits on three sides
  
• Fourth wall - the feeling as if the audience is looking through an invisible wall
  
• multifocus theater - simultaneous things happening at once in a production
  
• Corral - theater of a spanish golden age

Lighting:

• Moving lights - lights that are mobile
  
• Backlighting - light that comes from behind
  
• Batten - pole supported above stage for lights or other things
  
• Blackout - darkness of the whole stage
  
• Dimmer - smooth lighting for the set
  
• Focus - aiming the light on a specific point
  
• Gobo - determines shape/arrangement of the light patterns that are shown onto stage
  
• Fresnel - spotlight for short distances/ also used for blending lights