Author Question: How has technology affected the art and job of lighting and sound designers? What will be an ... (Read 87 times)

HudsonKB16 · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

How has technology affected the art and job of lighting and sound designers?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

In the time of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, before the first notion of 'royalties' from a show, how did playwrights make money off a show once they sold it to a company?

A. Individual investors would pay the playwright to write more
if they liked the play that they saw
B. They didn't receive any money unless the script was changed,
in which case they received a small fee for each change.
C. They didn't. Once a play was sold, the playwright no longer
retained any rights to it.
D. Playwrights in Shakespeare's day never sold their plays, but
simply produced them themselves.

Dnite · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The student could talk about the advent of electricity as a means of lighting an
otherwise dim indoor theatre, how electricity also allowed for magnified sound and human
voices as well as music, and so forth.

Answer to Question 2

C.