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Freshman Acting

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To speak or to act without a script
Upstage
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Subtext
Impovise

2. Through your interactions - you will begin to develop a working - tursting relationships wand to learn what it takes to be a part of an ______ - a group whose individuals function together to create a whole.
Focus
Upstage
Ensemble
Character development

3. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Observe
Cold reading
Phrasing
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string

4. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Project
Pitch
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Subtext

5. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Subtext
Pitch
Isolate
Story - conflict

6. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
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
Shared position
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Pitch

7. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Pantomime
Sense memory
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Articulators

8. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Ensemble
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Posture
Beats

9. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Breathing using diaphram
Upstage
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
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

10. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Resonance
Upstage
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Beats

11. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Inflection
Quality
Cold reading

12. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Pitch
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Impovise
Focus

13. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Beats
Character development
Ensemble
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

14. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Pitch
Focus
Beats
Resonance.

15. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Ensemble
Improvise
Sense memory
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

16. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Articulators
Inflection
Quality

17. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cross
Resonance.
Tempo

18. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Volume
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Capabilities - limitations

19. To speak or to act without a script
Articulation
Quality
Cross
Impovise

20. 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
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Inflection

21. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Project
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Open
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.

22. 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.
Breathing using diaphram
Similarities - differences
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cross

23. Information This 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 is _______.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Cold Reading
Project
Subtext

24. How loud or soft your voice is.
Pitch
Volume
Project
Subtext

25. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Articulation
Improvise

26. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Quality
Character development

27. Information This 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 is _______.
Inflection
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
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
Subtext

28. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Observe

29. The text of the play.
Script
Open
Cross
Story - conflict

30. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Shared position
Articulators
articulation
Volume

31. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Open
Quality
Cold reading
Shared position

32. What is good posture?
Pitch
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Improvise
Tell - show

33. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Pitch
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Improvise

34. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Cross
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Resonators
Project

35. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pitch
Phrasing
Cross
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

36. The text of the play is the _____.
Script
Story - conflict
Resonance.
Resonators

37. How loud or soft your voice is.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Resonance.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Volume

38. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Spontaneity imagination

39. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Cold reading
Shared position
Tell - show
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.

40. A major difference between the traditions of storytelling and theatre is that storytellers generally _____ a story - punctuation it with the imitation of character voices and gestures - while actors generally ____ a show - supply explanation when nec
Tempo
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Pantomime
Tell - show

41. The text of the play is the _____.
Open
Script
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words

42. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Inflection
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
articulation

43. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Focus
Gesture
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Pitch

44. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Tempo
Inflection
Character development
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words

45. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Shared position
Shared Position
Capabilities - limitations
Inflection

46. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Breathing using diaphram
Project
Shared Position
Project

47. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Ensemble
Breathing using diaphram
Beats
Tempo

48. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage - forming the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor; stealing focus of a scene is called _________.
Subtext
Shared position
Open
Cross

49. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Open
Breathing using diaphram
articulation

50. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Gesture
Focus
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.