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Acting Motivation
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
subtext
pick up your cues
status quo
audition
2. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
fourth wall
shared position
subtext
working rehearsal
3. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
shared position
Emotional Memory
representational style
strategy
4. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
keep open on stage while entering through doors
stage business
obstacle
audition
5. Part in a play
Keeping open on stage while standing
role
open
fourth wall
6. Turn your hand upstage
Beats
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
cold reading
poise
7. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
your dropping line
emotional memory
keep open on stage while entering
Spiking the set
8. The people conducting the auditions
auditors
monologue
Keeping open on stage while standing
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
9. What makes a character do something
Leading center
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
motivation
cold reading
10. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
Shared position
cold reading
your dropping line
open
11. How a character overcomes the obstacle
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
strategy
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Sense memory
12. Bridges between the beats
callback
transitions
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Status quo
13. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
sense memory
leading center
role
callback
14. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
Spiking the set
working rehearsal
master gesture
Beats
15. Part in a play
role
auditors
monologue
motivation
16. Present circumstances
status quo
focus
Keeping open on stage while standing
role
17. Enter with your upstage foot
keep open on stage while entering
Status quo
monologue
stakes
18. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
Leading center
outcome
upstage
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
19. A complete reading of the play
read through
Leading center
status quo
your topping the line
20. Full front - or one quarter left or right
Spiking the set
Emotional Memory
Keeping open on stage while standing
poise
21. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
emotional memory
leading center
master gesture
stage business
22. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
objective
open
Leading center
sense memory
23. Open the door with your upstage hand
Leading center
keep open on stage while entering through doors
auditors
poise
24. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
motivation
objective
your topping the line
Leading center
25. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
keep open on stage while entering
Beats
subtext
stage business
26. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
status quo
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
cross
auditors
27. What makes a character do something
callback
shared position
motivation
Keeping open on stage while standing
28. The intended point of interest on stage
status quo
subtext
focus
representational style
29. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
Sense memory
status quo
shared position
30. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
cast
sense memory
your topping the line
master gesture
31. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
monologue
stage business
fourth wall
32. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
open
callback
focus
Emotional Memory
33. Present circumstances
status quo
auditors
transitions
cold reading
34. Auditioning with a script you have not read
Emotional Memory
open
cold reading
representational style
35. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
subtext
working rehearsal
Spiking the set
focus
36. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
working rehearsal
Shared position
action
Beats
37. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
strategy
fourth wall
subtext
Keeping open on stage while standing
38. Control in posture
action
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
poise
role
39. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
leading center
subtext
open
Sense memory
40. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
focus
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Spiking the set
41. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
audition
outcome
Shared position
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
42. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage forcing the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the actor - stealing the focus of the scene.
your topping the line
stage business
pick up your cues
upstage
43. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
transitions
Acting Generated emotion
shared position
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
44. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
cue line
subtext
fourth wall
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
45. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
obstacle
subtext
Spiking the set
your dropping line
46. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
pick up your cues
auditors
keep open on stage while entering
Acting Generated emotion
47. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
poise
open
Shared position
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
48. A characteristic gesture
Status quo
monologue
master gesture
strategy
49. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
action
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
obstacle
callback
50. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
Keeping open on stage while standing
keeping open on stage while turning
outcome
stage business