Production Skills: SQA Higher Drama directing and design quiz quiz

The list of props needed for the production

The director's overall interpretation of the text and intended audience effect

The order in which the scenes are rehearsed

The number of actors cast in the production

It removes the need to rehearse the actors at all

It is a unifying idea that tests every performance and design choice

It guarantees the production will be the longest possible

It lets the director ignore what the text actually says

The distance between two characters in a scene

The colour of the lighting used in a scene

The music played during a scene change

The planned movement and positioning of actors on stage

The use of recorded sound effects in a scene

The choice of fabric for a character's costume

The number of entrances and exits in a set

The meaning created by the distance between characters

A fully detailed, realistic room with a hidden fourth wall

A sparse or symbolic set that frees the audience's imagination

A set that imitates a real location down to every object

A set designed to make the audience forget they are in a theatre

Music, volume, silence, effects

Cut, fabric, colour, condition

Levels, entrances, layout, scale

Colour, intensity, angle, spotlight

As a positive choice that exposes a moment or builds tension

As a mistake that should always be avoided in a production

Only ever at the very start of the performance

To signal that the sound equipment has failed

A warm, comforting, domestic atmosphere

A bright, comic, energetic mood

A bleak or cold atmosphere

A sense that no time is passing at all

Period, class, status, occupation and personality

Only the character's name and the actor playing them

The exact number of lines the character speaks

Which scene the character appears in next

The director's overall concept for the production

Age, health and the effects of events such as illness or injury

The exact running time of the performance

The ticket price for the production

By letting each department work entirely on its own

By making sure every scene is exactly the same length

By briefing acting and every design department to serve one concept

By using as many different ideas as possible at once

Linking each choice to a clear effect on the audience

Naming a specific lighting colour and angle

Describing decoration without saying what it does or why

Keeping every choice consistent with the interpretation

Name specific technical choices and link each to an audience effect

Summarise the whole plot of the studied text

Describe only what the actors would say in the scene

List the names of every designer in theatre history

So the whole production communicates one coherent message

So the design can be as expensive as possible

So the audience cannot follow what is happening

So the designer does not have to work with the director