Journeyman Written Stage Lighting Exam



Practice Test

Acoustic Shell

1. When setting the full acoustical shell how many shell walls will be used?

a. Six shell walls are used when setting up full acoustical shell

b. Eight shell walls are used when setting up full acoustical shell

c. Ten shell walls are used when setting up full acoustical shell

2. What personal protection equipment (PPE) is needed for entire crew when fly rail is in operation?

a. Hardhats

b. Fall protection

c. Steel toe boots

3. What is the purpose of having lighting upstage of the acoustic shell?

a. Safety of the performers and crew

b. Light back of acoustic shell

c. No purpose, do not need any lighting

4. When setting trim on electrical battens and shell canopies, what is the need to have a person setting in the middle of the first row of seats?

a. To determine site lines and convey instruction to fly man

b. To determine light focus for acoustical shell

c. To determine site lines and convey instruction to on stage spotter

5. When would you check the on-stage lighting fixtures to ensure that they all work and are correctly patched?

a. Before the lighting fixtures have been patched into lighting console

b. Before stage crew gel the lighting fixtures

c. After the lighting fixtures have been patched into lighting console

6. When should all equipment to be used for performance be moved to the stage?

a. After electrical battens and shell canopies are flown into loft area

b. After shell walls are put into place.

c. After light fixtures have been focused

7. When setting shell walls for full acoustic shell setup, what determines where shell walls will be placed?

a. Spike marks ingrained into stage floor

b. Measurement taken from stage plot

c. Outside of shell canopies

8. Where are the skirts for shell walls stored when not in use?

a. Upstage right in the wings

b. Cage in the overhead storage area

c. In the framework on backside of shell walls

9. How many crew members does it take to set trim on electrical batten and shell canopies?

a. It takes three crew members

b. It takes two crew members

c. It takes four crew members

10. When lowering canopies safely to preset angle, where should crew be placed to perform task?

a. Four people upstage of canopies

b. Three people upstage and four people downstage of canopies

c. Two people upstage and two people downstage of canopies

Sound

1. What is the range of frequencies for the sub bass?

a. 20Hz. -100Hz.

b. 10kHz. – 20kHz

c. 1kHz. – 10kHz.

2. The high pass filter will do what?

a. “Rolls off” or cuts frequencies above a given frequency

b. Effects all frequencies above a given frequency

c. “Rolls off” or cuts frequencies below a given frequency

3. What is audio feedback?

a. Cue sent to headset

b. Ringing noises

c. The review for stage manager

4. What is range of frequencies for the high midrange?

a. 20Hz. -100Hz.

b. 1kHz. – 10kHz.

c. 10kHz. – 20kHz

5. With a microphone what is the signal flow through a sound system?

a. Speakers to processing to input

b. Input to processing to speakers

c. Processing to input to speakers

6. Microphone, transmitter and receiver are the components of what?

a. Wireless microphone

b. Output of an audio mixer

c. Block of inputs

7. What is the first thing you do, every time that you use a transmitter on wireless systems?

a. Unplug receiver

b. Change the batteries

c. Check frequencies

8. What is an unbalance audio cable used for?

a. Patching effect units

b. XLR input

c. Electric guitar into an amplifier

9. The level at which you tell the compressor to turn down the audio is called what?

a. Threshold

b. Release

c. Attack

10. How would you reduce the input signal on a channel, besides using the gain control?

a. Pull down the slider on channel

b. Use the pre fader button

c. Turn down the attenuator pad

11. What does a threshold do on a compressor?

a. Reduces the dynamic range of a signal that passes through it

b. Adjusts the level that the signal needs to rise above for the compressor to begin to work

c. The difference between the normal operating level and clipping

12. What is gain of an audio signal?

a. Difference between 1 and 10

b. Loudness of the audio

c. Strength of a signal

13. If your signal is clipping, what’s the first step to troubleshoot this?

a. Have a talk with the band

b. Move the slider down on the channel

c. Turn down the input gain to correct it

14. Panning a sound refers to what?

a. The depth of a sound

b. The positioning a sound between low end and high end

c. Positioning a sound between left to right

15. How do you want the compressor to “let go” of the audio is called what?

a. Release

b. Threshold

c. Attack

16. What is the name of the processor which is used to alter the frequency characteristics of sound?

a. Compressor

b. Limiter

c. Equalizer

17. Define each connector and its use / connecters are not to scale.

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Carpentry

1. What are narrow curtains used as masking at sides of stage to hide wings?

a. Portal

b. Legs

c. Teaser

2. What is a border and leg combined into a single piece with a large opening?

a. Teaser

b. Borders

c. Portal

3. What is a large piece of canvas that is painted to be scenery?

a. Cut drop

b. Back drop

c. Drop

4. What is the term of the equipment behind the band, usually consisting of amps, drums and keyboards?

a. Band equipment

b. Orchestra

c. Backline

5. What is the term for the method of dropping a fabric cloth backdrop from a fly bar?

a. Kabuki drop

b. Scene drops

c. Batten in

6. What is the term for the system for giving technical staff and actors silent cues by light?

a. Cue light

b. Ghost light

c. Go light

7. What is the term used for the act of holding a curtain, etc. back to allow a large items or actor offstage?

a. Bracing

b. Pinning

c. Paging

8. What is the term for a warning given to technical staff by the stage management that a cue is imminent?

a. Ready

b. Go

c. Stand-by

9. What is the name of an adjustable stick with a hook at the top and foot at the bottom, used to keep flat in vertical position?

a. Stage brace

b. Jack brace

c. Stiffener brace

10. Using the drawing below, insert the number, between 1 and 10, for the following:

A.  Down Stage Right:  _____

B. Up Stage Left:  _ ___

C. Front of House:  __ __

D. Down Stage Center: _ ___

E. Mid Stage Center:  _ ___

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Fly-Rail

1. On the locking rail what position should the red handle (rope lock) be in to lock the operating line?

a. Up

b. Down

c. Engaged

2. What is the problem with a line set, if there’s tension in the operating line above the rope lock and the hand line under the arbor is slack?

a. The arbor is too heavy

b. The batten is to heavy

c. Head block is off its track

3. How much of the batten weight will the head block bear (support)?

a. The head block will bear the full load of the line set

b. The head block will bear half the amount of weight of the arbor

c. The head block will bear twice the amount of the weight of the batten

4. The lever that holds the batten in position when the load is balanced, is called what?

a. Rope break

b. Stop lock

c. Rope lock

5. In order to properly balance (counterweight) the load on the batten it is necessary to do what?

a. Add or remove weight from the counterweight arbor.

b. Use the winch on the arbor

c. Divide the weight by the load

6. When changing weight on a batten, such as removing one drop and replacing it with another, what can be done to eliminate unloading stage weights at the arbor, while the batten is arbor heavy?

a. Temporarily hang sandbags on batten until batten weight equal arbor weight

b. Tie off the batten to the pin rail

c. Tighten the thumb screw on break lever

7. What is the name given to the crew responsible for loading of the arbors?

a. Loaders

b. Carpenters

c. Fly crew

8. When reference to operating the fly rail, what is the definition of qualified person?

a. Trained and tested on fly rail process and procedures

b. Production staff who works the venue all the time

c. Touring crew with experience with other venue’s

9. What is the name of a scenery curtain which reaches the stage floor?

a. Drop

b. Back drop

c. Main

10. The pulley, or block mounted to the building’s support steel, that guides the wire ropes between the arbor and the loft blocks, are call what?

a. Loft block

b. Head block

c. Tension block

11. What is the name of the rail in which belaying pins are set for tying lines too?

a. Pin rail

b. Captains rail

c. Fly rail

12. What is the name of the rear curtain on the stage?

a. Backdrop

b. Stage drops

c. Cyclorama

13. The fly-rail crew on a show is given a chart with descriptions of the cues as well as the cue number, what is the chart called?

a. Cue sheet

b. Cheat sheet

c. Running order of fly moves

14. Who other than qualified persons should operate the fly rail?

a. Building employees all qualified

b. Only qualified persons should operate fly rail

c. All the carpenters are qualified

15. When loading scenery or lights with the batten lowest to the floor which would load first, the weight or the scenery / lights?

a. Weights first – scenery / lights last

b. Scenery / lights first - Weights last

c. Weight and scenery -lights will be loaded at the same time

16. What is the intent of the use of a fire curtain in a theater?

a. To separate an audience from the stage in the event of a fire

b. Protect the actors from pyrotechnics on stage

c. Protect the audience from pyrotechnics from the catwalks

17. What are spike marks used for on operating lines at the fly rail?

a. The place the fly-man will grab while moving set pieces

b. A piece of tape to mark high trim, low trim etc.

c. The location of the next line set to move

18. On a batten what would a bumper be use for?

a. Hold the extra cable not being used

b. To guide one batten past another

c. Attach to batten so you can hang more lights

19. What is a knuckle buster used for on the operating line?

a. Will stop operating line at a spike mark

b. Remind operator line is out of balance

c. Damage to batten, do not use

20. How would a bull line be used on a batten?

a. To keep batten level while being loaded and unloaded

b. Stage crew can help pull arbor and aid in raising or lowering an overweight arbor

c. Keep batten from swinging during set changes

Follow spot

1. Why is it important that when an operator arrives at their assigned spotlight, the first thing to be done is to hook up clear- com?

a. Assure that all the clear coms are working

b. Lighting Director can talk to you while you get setup

c. Operator will be able to visit with other operators

2. Why is it necessary to keep records of the time that the spotlights are in use?

a. Keep tract of the life of the lamp

b. Lead will know what to mark down on time sheet

c. Keep tract of maintenance records

3. Where would you adjust the current for the Xenon bulb?

a. Bass assembly

b. Rear of the lamphouse

c. Power supply

4. After the spotlight has been running a while what should the amp meter be reading?

a. 50 amps to 60 amps

b. 60 amps to 70 amps

c. 60 amps to 80 amps

5. How long would you let the fan cool the lamp before covering the spotlight with the canvas cover?

a. 20 minutes

b. 5 minutes

c. 15 minutes

6. What control lever would an operator used to fade out on the stage?

a. Douser control lever

b. Chopper control lever

c. Boomerang control lever

7. To obtain the maximum intensity, the spot size control handle needs to be in which position?

a. Extreme forward position

b. Extreme back position.

c. Midway position

8. How many lenses in the optical system of the follow spotlight?

a. One

b. Two

c. Three

9. Which cue is given at the moment the cue should be executed? This sets the operator in action.

a. Warning

b. Stand by

c. Go

10. How would an operator obtain the sharpest edge on the projected spot?

a. Adjust the focusing control knob

b. Adjust the chopper

c. Tighten the iris

11. How would an operator replace one color frame with a different color frame?

a. Engage another color filter

b. Push the filter release arm up

c. Use the stop frame buffer

12. Where are the thumbscrews located to adjust the balance of the spotlight?

a. Lamp house housing

b. Base assembly

c. Power supply

Lighting

1. List the 3 Primary colors in additive color theory.

a. Red, blue and green

b. Magenta, cyan and yellow

c. Yellow, orange and purple

2. What primary colors that are good for lighting skin?

a. Red

b. Blue

c. Green

3. Which three positions make up the three-point lighting system regularly used in theatre, film and video?

a. Floor light, back light, cross light

b. Up light, side light, foot light

c. Key light, fill light, back light

4. In lighting what are the two ways the DMX-512 protocol can be used?

a. To remotely control dimmers

b. To communicate to automated lighting fixtures

c. To identify traditional lighting fixtures

5. What is a soft-edged spotlight that is commonly used to wash light over an area of the stage? The size of its beam can be adjusted by moving the lamp and reflector closer to or farther from the lens.

a. Strip light

b. Ellipsoidal light

c. Fresnel light

6. What are a metal templates or stencils that you can place in front of a light source to control the shape of the light emitted?

a. Iris

b. Donut

c. Gobo

7. List the 3 secondary colors in additive color theory.

a. Red, blue and green

b. Magenta, cyan and yellow

c. Yellow, orange and purple

8. Using R for red, G for green, and B for blue, indicate on the drawing below how a three-circuit Border light should be colored.

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9. What does it mean to “shutter” a light?

a. Unplug the fixture

b. Shape the edge of the light

c. Sharpen the edge of the light

10. In additive lighting, each of the primary color filters are put into individual lighting fixtures and all focused at the same point, what color is acquired?

a. Pink

b. White light

c. Black (no color)

11. How you would wire the signal to multiple automated lighting fixtures?

a. Program transmitter and receiver

b. Daisey chain with DMX cables

c. Individual DMX cables

12. List the 3 primary colors of light in subtractive color theory.

a. Red, blue and green

b. Magenta, cyan and yellow

c. Yellow, orange and purple

13. What is the proper order when using a frost gel with a colored gel?

a. Frost only no color gel

b. Color gel first (closest to light) frost next

c. Frost first (closest to light) color next

14. Where would you use a DMX terminator plug?

a. At the end of a DMX run

b. On a fixture with a burnt-out lamp

c. After every other fixture

15. You are working with a five-wire set of female Camlock ends, what is the correct order to connect the cables up to the distribution rack.

a. The three hot legs first, then the neutral leg and the ground last

b. The ground first, then the hot legs and the neutral leg last

c. The ground first, then the neutral leg and the hot legs last

16. What is the definition for watts?

a. Unit of power

b. Amount of power

c. Amount of amps

17. What disadvantage does the stage pin connector have that some other connectors do not?

a. Bigger than most plugs

b. Comes unplugged easy

c. Only one use

18. What are two methods of accent lighting?

a. Intensity

b. Color

c. Trim

19. What is meant when you are asked to dress the cables?

a. Restore feeder to road cases

b. Cable runs from the off-stage positions

c. Arrange cables in a neat and orderly fashion

20. What does a standby cue indicate?

a. Lights in a plot that might or might not be used in a stage cue

b. The person standing in the wings waiting to sweep the stage

c. Be prepared to receive and hence execute a new cue

21. What are the beam angles of a flood?

a. 7 to 15 degrees

b. 35 to 90 degrees

c. 20 to 30 degrees

Properties

1. Includes all the furniture on stage, and any other “objects” which are part of the set

a. Set props

b. Trim props

c. Set dressing

2. What kind of fog is low lying and drops, curling off stage’s edges, downstairs etc. rather than rising?

a. Dry ice fogger

b. Gas fogger

c. Haze fogger

3. What is the name for a raised platform on which a speaker stands during a presentation?

a. Desktop

b. Lecterns

c. Podiums

4. What is the term for a burst of smoke, remote-controlled rats, artificial fires in fireplace etc...?

a. Automated special effects

b. Manual special effects

c. Fall-through effects

5. What is the term that describes the status of a gun or explosive effect that is loaded, and will be used in an upcoming scene?

a. Hot

b. Live

c. Loaded

6. What is the name of a rolling platform that rolls either upstage to downstage or in and out of the wings?

a. Removeable platforms

b. Wagons

c. Lift gate

7. What is the name of a vinyl black/gray flexible floor, usually has a fiberglass lining for greater stability and helps it to lie flat?

a. Bob vinyl

b. Marley

c. Drop floor

8. What is useful for an effect to create a thick, opaque cloud in a theatre to obscure the audience’s vision of an area or for dramatic effect?

a. Fog machine

b. Dry ice fogger

c. Haze fogger

9. What care is taken with swords, daggers and even kitchen knives, for general safety?

a. Removeable sleeves

b. Edges dulled and tips blunted

c. Lockable cabinet

Rigging

1. What is the most common knot used in rigging?

a. Clove hitch

b. Bowline

c. Half hitch

2. Which will hold more weight, a choke or a basket?

a. Choke

b. Basket

3. What does a point refer to in rigging?

a. Who is in charge?

b. When to lift chain

c. Individual loads

4. When would a split basket be used?

a. When a steel beam is too big to reach under

b. When it takes two riggers to hang the point

c. When it goes through a steel beam

5. How thick should the burlap bag be when wrapping a steel beam?

a. Two folds of the burlap bag

b. ½ inch thick

c. Doesn’t matter because you don’t use burlap bags on most points

6. What are the three settings on a motor control box?

a. Fast, slow and stop

b. Up, down and neutral

c. Go, stop and rewind

7. After the up riggers have taken the weight of the point, what should the ground rigger be looking at before the point goes up.

a. Size of burlap bag

b. Twisted shackles

c. Length of bowline

8. When ground rigging why is it important to keep hold of the chain as it comes down to the ground?

a. Control of swinging and safety of workers

b. So, the chain falls into storage slot of motor box

c. Help to pull down chain

9. The male twist lock plug coming off the chain motor is used for what?

a. Power in

b. Control up and down

c. Power out

10. Where would a load attach to a chain motor?

a. Hook at motor

b. Hook at the end of chain

c. The bottom cord on the truss

11. On a choke how many corners of the beam will need a burlap bag?

a. Burlap bag the two top corners

b. Burlap bag three corners

c. Burlap bag four corners

12. What is a span-set with a metal wire running through it instead of a nylon core?

a. Steel-set

b. Gas flex

c. Span flex

13. Where would you find the load ratings of a span-set?

a. In the paperwork that comes with the span-set

b. On the load chart on the lid of the rigging box

c. Attached to the span-set

14. What is a static load?

a. The force that will be applied to the hanging load

b. The force of a hanging load

c. The load including chain motors and rigging

Video production

1. What is the main output that goes over the air or is recorded?

a. Main out

b. Depth of field

c. Program line

2. What is the primary engineering control center where all video and signals are ultimately channeled called?

a. Production office

b. Master control area

c. Command center

3. What is the act of changing from one video source to another and the creation of various transitions and effects during production with the aid of a switcher called?

a. Mixing

b. Calling

c. Switching

4. What is the term for combining two pictures with either a horizontal or vertical line separating the screen into two distinct areas with different picture in each part of the screen?

a. Split screen

b. Overlay

c. Crossfade

5. What is the term for a geometric pattern gradually replaces one picture with another?

a. Wipe

b. Sensor

c. showreel

6. Which bus allows you to select the inputs you want to preview?

a. Effect bus

b. Preview bus

c. Mix bus

7. What is the term for one picture gradually fades into another – requires the use of 2 or more separate buses (same as a wipe)?

a. Dissolves

b. Pacing

c. Render

8. What is a sophisticated video switcher that can produce various effects (wipes, mattes, keys etc.)?

a. Special effects generator

b. Effect bus

c. Effect fade

9. Distance (mm) from the optical center, or focal point, of the lens assembly to the back of the lens assembly.

a. Focal length

b. Fast lens

c. Focal point

10. Crank on the side of the pedestal column that twists a gear to raise and lower pedestal column.

a. Focal length

b. Pedestal control

c. Optical center

11. Feature on cameras that automatically examines the light levels coming into the camera and adjusts the iris according to genetic standards of a “good” picture.

a. Image sensor

b. Auto-iris circuit

c. Optical zoom

12. Knob of lever that adjusts the magnifier on viewfinder to compensate for difference in vision.

a. Tracking

b. Diopter adjustment

c. Long portrait

13. Physical location within the lens assembly where an image is inverted.

a. Focal length

b. Focus

c. Focal point

14. Component of a lens that is comprised of blades that physically expand and contract, adjusting the aperture size.

a. Iris

b. Zoom

c. Gobo

15. Column in the center of a tripod used to raise or lower the camera.

a. Pedestal shaft

b. Pedestal column

c. Center rod

16. Lens that is capable of small aperture settings and lets little light into the camera.

a. Fast lens

b. Optic lens

c. Slow lens

17. Camera lens in which the optical center can vary its position within the lens assembly, varying the focal length measurement as well.

a. Adjustable lens

b. High dynamic range

c. Variable focal length lens

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