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Freshman Acting

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Pitch
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.

2. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Shared position
Project
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Shared Position

3. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Similarities - differences
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Beats
Pitch

4. The text of the play is the _____.
Shared position
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
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

5. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Story - conflict
Project
Articulation
Shared position

6. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Shared position
Upstage
Tempo

7. 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 _______.
Subtext
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Resonators
Breathing using diaphram

8. Stealing focus of a scene.
Sense memory
Upstage
Open
Articulation

9. Your customary way of holding your body
Subtext
Posture
Cold Reading
Focus

10. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Articulators
Posture
Pantomime
Isolate

11. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Isolate
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
articulation

12. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before.
Cold Reading
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Project
articulation

13. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Resonance
Pantomime
Posture
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses

14. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Articulators
Script
Gesture
Story - conflict

15. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Inflection
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Pantomiming
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions

16. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Capabilities - limitations

17. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Beats
Subtext
Story - conflict
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words

18. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Sense memory
Subtext
Posture
Quality

19. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?

20. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Project
Resonance.
Pantomime
Resonators

21. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Gesture
Pantomime
Impovise
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses

22. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Script
Upstage

23. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Pitch
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
Tempo
Isolate

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

25. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Resonance
Cross
Inflection
Upstage

26. Your customary way of holding your body
Posture
Shared position
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Quality

27. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Project
Project
Gesture
Articulation

28. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?

29. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Improvise
articulation
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
Tell - show

30. How high or low your voice is
Pitch
Focus
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Script

31. What are the three elements of storytelling?

32. 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
Tempo
Improvise
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Cross

33. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Pitch
Breathing using diaphram

34. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Pitch
Similarities - differences
Resonators
Focus

35. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Beats
Posture

36. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Articulation
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.

37. When was storytelling originated?
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Volume
Cross
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

38. The text of the play is the _____.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Articulation
Script
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

39. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Pantomime
Articulation
Beats

40. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
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
Focus

41. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
articulation
Resonators
Phrasing

42. 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
articulation
Cold reading
Subtext
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses

43. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Upstage
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Open
Subtext

44. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Resonance.
articulation
Project

45. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Posture
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.

46. 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.
Pitch
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
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
Similarities - differences

47. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Resonance
Inflection
Inflection
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize

48. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Story - conflict
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Open

49. 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
Open
Shared Position
Subtext
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

50. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Resonators
Beats
Inflection