Production skills: lighting, sound, set, costume and directing quiz - SQA National 5 Drama quiz

Age, status, period and personality

The running time of the play

The lighting cues

The ticket price

Selling the production

Changing a performer's appearance to suit a role, such as ageing them

Lighting the stage

Recording sound effects

Straight make-up

Character make-up

Special-effects make-up

No make-up can do this

The script

The audience size

The interval

Colour

It isolates a performer or area to focus the audience's attention

It establishes the period of the play

It creates a sound effect

It changes the costume

Warmth and celebration

A cold, sad or threatening mood

Bright daytime energy

A comic atmosphere

A type of microphone

A staging form

A shaped template that projects a pattern, such as a window or leaves

A kind of costume

Recorded sound is always music; live sound is always speech

There is no difference

Recorded sound is illegal in theatre

Recorded sound is played back; live sound is produced in the moment

A sound effect or music cue must land exactly to create its effect

Sound is not affected by timing

Timing only matters for lighting

The audience cannot hear timing

Only fill silence between scenes

Create mood, establish setting and signal action

Replace the actors

Decide the grade by itself

Proscenium arch

Traverse

Theatre-in-the-round

Thrust

The audience views the stage through a frame, as through a fourth wall

The audience sits on two opposite sides

The audience moves with the action

The audience sits on all four sides

Theatre-in-the-round

Promenade

Proscenium arch

Traverse

Stopping the audience from seeing the set

A type of special-effects make-up

The director's planned positioning and movement of performers

A lighting colour

Coherence: making every choice serve one clear concept

Selling tickets

Acting all the roles

Switching the lights on and off

Because attractive design is banned

Because the marker chooses for you

Because design has no effect on the audience

Because marks come from linking the choice to mood, setting, focus or meaning