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Freshman Acting

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Resonance
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Character development
Inflection

2. The text of the play.
Beats
Observe
Script
Quality

3. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Resonators
Pitch
Project
Beats

4. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Open
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Beats

5. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Inflection
articulation
Posture
Capabilities - limitations

6. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Articulation
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Pantomiming
Focus

7. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Beats
Focus
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.

8. The text of the play is the _____.
Script
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Impovise
Inflection

9. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Gesture
Cold Reading
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Script

10. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Resonators
Project
Articulation
Ensemble

11. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Articulators
Tempo
Subtext

12. When you understand the _____ and ______ between you and the character you will be portraying - those _______ and ______ can be accentuated by your body and your voice.
Script
Pitch
Similarities - differences
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects

13. What are the three elements of storytelling?

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14. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pantomime
Breathing using diaphram
Posture
Improvise

15. Information that is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words
Cold Reading
Subtext
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
articulation

16. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulators
Cross
Cross
Open

17. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Articulation
Open
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Project

18. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Character development
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions

19. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Pantomiming
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Upstage

20. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Focus
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Resonance
Project

21. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Project
Open
Focus

22. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Sense memory
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Phrasing
Cold Reading

23. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Story - conflict
Subtext
Similarities - differences

24. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Story - conflict
Breathing using diaphram
Cross

25. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Subtext
Focus
Pitch
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.

26. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Spontaneity imagination
Upstage
Subtext
Volume

27. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Pitch
Cross
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Ensemble

28. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Story - conflict

29. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Inflection
Breathing using diaphram
Resonators
Upstage

30. How high or low your voice is ______.
Capabilities - limitations
Inflection
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Pitch

31. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Beats
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Isolate
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

32. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Beats
Gesture
Breathing using diaphram

33. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Open
Breathing using diaphram
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Gesture

34. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Pantomime
Posture
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.

35. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Script
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Improvise
Beats

36. Your customary way of holding your body
Resonance.
Breathing using diaphram
Posture
Capabilities - limitations

37. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Similarities - differences
Project
Observe
Observe

38. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Pantomiming
Script
Cold Reading
Sense memory

39. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Script
Capabilities - limitations
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.

40. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Inflection
articulation
Upstage
Ensemble

41. How high or low your voice is
Pitch
Beats
Tell - show
Beats

42. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Cold reading
Pantomiming
Quality
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

43. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Impovise
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cold Reading

44. How loud or soft your voice is.
Volume
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Posture
Focus

45. In improvisation you must also pay close _____ to what your fellow actors are saying and doing so you can ____ accordingly. ____ _____ is also vital for improvisation
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Shared position
Resonators
Cross

46. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Impovise
Project
Open
Articulators

47. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Inflection
Pantomime
Beats
Open

48. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Gesture
Shared position
Volume
Articulators

49. When you understand the _____ and ______ between you and the character you will be portraying - those _______ and ______ can be accentuated by your body and your voice.
Similarities - differences
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Quality
Cross

50. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Subtext
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Observe
Resonance