Stagecraft Test 3 Study Guide

What type of joint is this?

Dado joint

What type of joint is this?

Notice how the two pieces of wood are joined at 45 degree angles

Miter joint

What type of joint is this?

Half lap

What type of joint is this?

Basic butt/box joint

What type of joint is this?

Scarf joint

What is a drop bolt?

• holds scenery into place

• often also found in backyard gates

What is a stage break?

• holds scenery into place

• tends to lift the item you are breaking

bullet latch

• in case there are a bunch of actors that don’t know how doorknobs work

• ball that is put on the edge of the door so doors

Stage Screw

• threaded sleeve key configuration

• usually tightens scenery to the floor

Coffin lock

• has a hole in the scenery

• often used in touring theatre

What type of hinge is this?

Strap hinge

What are strap hinges good for?

Large doors and panels

Think barn doors

Butt Hinge Uses

• often found in doors

• can remove pin to take the door off and put the door back on

What type of hinge is this?

Butt Hinge

T strap Hinge

• mix between strap hinge and butt hinge

What hinge is this?

T hinge

What is this hinge?

Back flap loose pin

Back flap hinge (need to know for test)

• tight and loose pin (tight the pin does not come out and loose it comes out)

• use it to but scenery together fast

• slap piece of scenery together and add the pin

• back flap loose pin

What is this?

Straight castor

What is this?

Swivel castor

What type of hinge is this?

Piano hinge

Tri wheel castor

• three swivel castors together

What castor is this?

Groove castor (so it can be on a track)

What type of fabric is this?

Velour

What is velour used for?

• used for nice curtains

• 100%. cotton

• more heavy

• comes in various weights

  • wrinkles tend to drop out of it

• has a pretty and not so pretty side

• some can be impregnated with fire retardant

Duvetyne

Cheap cousin of velour

More thin than velour

Felt

• compressed glued threads

Cheesecloth

• loose weave with a thin fabric

• sometimes covers pieces of foam

What is a pickpoint?

• the points where the rigging picks up the scenery

• need a pickpoint every 8 ft

• can be temporary on the scenery, or a pickpoint on the batton

What is the triangle thing?

A jack

What are jacks used for?

used as support to hold platforms up

make sure to put weights on the bottom or it will fall over

Test question: How are stage flats and jacks similar?

• made with 1×4

• held together with keystones and corner blocks