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Stage lighting flashcards with three-point lighting, Fresnel, gel, and key light terms for theatre students.
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Stage Lighting Flashcards

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This 40-card flashcard set covers theatrical and stage lighting fundamentals for middle and high school students. Content includes three-point lighting, lighting instruments (Fresnel, flood light, scoop), color temperature on the Kelvin scale, gels, diffusion techniques, and lighting setups like key light, fill light, and back light. Ideal for drama or technical theatre classes, exam review, or vocabulary reinforcement in a theatre arts unit.

Subject:
Art
Topic:
Performing Arts
Grade Level:
8th – 12th Grades
Updated February 2025

Terms in This Set

  • essential area
  • spotlight
  • fresnel
  • flood light
  • scoop
  • Barndoors
  • light hit
  • flag
  • incandescent lamp
  • Fluorescent lamp
  • Floor stand
  • grid
  • C-clamp
  • raceway
  • Kelvin Color Temperature Scale
  • 3200K Kelvin
  • gel
  • diffusion
  • scrim
  • bounce lighting
  • dimmer
  • light plot
  • basic hang
  • Three-point lighting
  • instrument
  • lamp
  • key light
  • fill light
  • back light
  • background light
  • four-point lighting
  • cross-key lighting
  • honeycomb
  • limbo lighting
  • hard light
  • soft light
  • principle of color white
  • principle of color black
  • Rough hang
  • triangle lighting

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