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Freshman Acting
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Inflection
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Project
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
2. 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 _______.
Focus
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
Subtext
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
3. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Resonators
Sense memory
Project
4. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Resonance.
Pitch
Shared position
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
5. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
Open
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
6. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Resonators
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Volume
7. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Pitch
Similarities - differences
Resonators
8. Stealing focus of a scene.
Story - conflict
Inflection
Isolate
Upstage
9. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Articulators
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Cold reading
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
10. 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 _________.
Shared position
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
Shared Position
11. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Beats
Subtext
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
12. How loud or soft your voice is.
Volume
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
Beats
Inflection
13. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Gesture
Subtext
Cold reading
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
14. When was storytelling originated?
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Subtext
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Pantomiming
15. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Impovise
Beats
articulation
Pantomime
16. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Spontaneity imagination
Resonators
Phrasing
17. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Upstage
Sense memory
Impovise
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
18. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Breathing using diaphram
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Sense memory
Shared position
19. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Ensemble
Volume
Pitch
20. The text of the play.
Posture
Script
Character development
Spontaneity imagination
21. Stealing focus of a scene.
Posture
Upstage
Focus
Story - conflict
22. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Beats
articulation
Project
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
23. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Gesture
Subtext
Resonators
Quality
24. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Impovise
Subtext
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
25. 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 _______.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Similarities - differences
Subtext
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
26. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Shared Position
Shared position
Articulation
Phrasing
27. What is good posture?
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Ensemble
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Focus
28. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Gesture
Articulators
Resonance
29. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Cross
Cold reading
Cross
Focus
30. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Posture
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Beats
31. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Capabilities - limitations
Tempo
Articulation
32. Your customary way of holding your body
Project
Posture
Character development
Pitch
33. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Phrasing
Sense memory
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
Open
34. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
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35. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pantomiming
Subtext
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Pitch
36. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Pitch
Upstage
Cross
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
37. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Cold Reading
Pantomime
Posture
38. What is good posture?
Pitch
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
39. To speak or to act without a script
Quality
Impovise
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
40. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Script
Pantomiming
Cold Reading
Spontaneity imagination
41. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Focus
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
Spontaneity imagination
Subtext
42. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Similarities - differences
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Sense memory
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
43. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Posture
Breathing using diaphram
Spontaneity imagination
Pitch
44. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Tell - show
Beats
Focus
Observe
45. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Improvise
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Tell - show
Similarities - differences
46. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Beats
Phrasing
Spontaneity imagination
Volume
47. 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
Cross
Character development
Subtext
48. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Spontaneity imagination
Shared Position
Impovise
Inflection
49. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Posture
Articulators
Focus
50. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pantomime
Story - conflict
Breathing using diaphram
Project
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