THE 2000 Exam 2 Questions and Answers Already Passed
Which of the following is one of the four major areas of design?
- movement design
- musical design
- mask design
- scenic design - Answers Scenic Design
Effective designs must __________.
- attract a high-profile director and producer and devote most of the budget to marketing to ensure
profitability
- replicate the design description in the text
- provide a dramatic departure from the text to demonstrate creativity
- meet the budget and serve the production aesthetics - Answers meet the budget and serve the
production aesthetics
How does the director's production concept affect the designers' work?
- It tells designers how the director envisions the world of the play.
- It gives designers specific designs to duplicate.
- It reveals whether the designers have done their jobs properly.
- It allows the designers freedom to design the show any way they want. - Answers It tells designers how
the director envisions the world of the play.
Prior to the invention of indoor European theatres, theatrical scenery was quite __________.
- colorful
- decadent
- minimal
- realistic - Answers Minimal
Sebastian Serlio, Giacomo Torelli, and Inigo Jones raised __________ to an art form.
- the Übermarionette
- scenic painting
, - mask making
- proscenium creation - Answers Scenic painting
Julie Taymor's production of The Lion King is a good example of __________ in its evocation of both
Asian- and African-inspired elements.
- neoclassicism
- realism
- interculturalism
- postmodernism - Answers interculturalism
__________ organized an exhibit of theatrical designs in Boston and New York in 1914 and 1915 that led
to the movement known as The New Stagecraft.
- Adolphe Appia
- Sam Hume
- Bertolt Brecht
- Robert Edmond Jones - Answers Sam Hume
Scenographer Josef Svoboda's work became synonymous with __________.
- a design-less theatre
- experiments in multimedia
- visual paralysis
- a return to conventional realism - Answers experiments in multimedia
A scenic designer usually begins his/her creative process by __________.
- conducting research
- reading the play
- talking to the director
- looking at other set designs for the play - Answers reading the play
__________ are a scenic designer's finalized drawings of the set, and often include a ground plan.
- Cycloramas
Which of the following is one of the four major areas of design?
- movement design
- musical design
- mask design
- scenic design - Answers Scenic Design
Effective designs must __________.
- attract a high-profile director and producer and devote most of the budget to marketing to ensure
profitability
- replicate the design description in the text
- provide a dramatic departure from the text to demonstrate creativity
- meet the budget and serve the production aesthetics - Answers meet the budget and serve the
production aesthetics
How does the director's production concept affect the designers' work?
- It tells designers how the director envisions the world of the play.
- It gives designers specific designs to duplicate.
- It reveals whether the designers have done their jobs properly.
- It allows the designers freedom to design the show any way they want. - Answers It tells designers how
the director envisions the world of the play.
Prior to the invention of indoor European theatres, theatrical scenery was quite __________.
- colorful
- decadent
- minimal
- realistic - Answers Minimal
Sebastian Serlio, Giacomo Torelli, and Inigo Jones raised __________ to an art form.
- the Übermarionette
- scenic painting
, - mask making
- proscenium creation - Answers Scenic painting
Julie Taymor's production of The Lion King is a good example of __________ in its evocation of both
Asian- and African-inspired elements.
- neoclassicism
- realism
- interculturalism
- postmodernism - Answers interculturalism
__________ organized an exhibit of theatrical designs in Boston and New York in 1914 and 1915 that led
to the movement known as The New Stagecraft.
- Adolphe Appia
- Sam Hume
- Bertolt Brecht
- Robert Edmond Jones - Answers Sam Hume
Scenographer Josef Svoboda's work became synonymous with __________.
- a design-less theatre
- experiments in multimedia
- visual paralysis
- a return to conventional realism - Answers experiments in multimedia
A scenic designer usually begins his/her creative process by __________.
- conducting research
- reading the play
- talking to the director
- looking at other set designs for the play - Answers reading the play
__________ are a scenic designer's finalized drawings of the set, and often include a ground plan.
- Cycloramas
