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Freshman Acting
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To speak or to act without a script
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Resonance
Pantomime
Impovise
2. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
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
Posture
3. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Posture
Phrasing
Capabilities - limitations
Open
4. The text of the play is the _____.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Cold reading
Quality
Script
5. What are the three elements of storytelling?
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6. The text of the play.
Tempo
Script
Inflection
Gesture
7. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Story - conflict
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
8. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Articulation
Subtext
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
9. What is good posture?
Shared Position
Shared Position
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Resonance.
10. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Impovise
Tempo
Phrasing
11. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Open
Focus
12. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Ensemble
Impovise
Pitch
13. Your customary way of holding your body
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Inflection
Posture
Articulators
14. The text of the play is the _____.
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
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Script
Shared Position
15. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
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16. How high or low your voice is ______.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Open
Pitch
Cross
17. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Pantomiming
Focus
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Articulators
18. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Story - conflict
Articulators
Phrasing
Inflection
19. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Cold reading
20. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Sense memory
Cold reading
Volume
Inflection
21. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Articulation
Character development
Inflection
Open
22. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Ensemble
Resonators
articulation
Breathing using diaphram
23. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
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
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
24. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Focus
articulation
Cross
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
25. Stealing focus of a scene.
Articulators
Resonance.
Upstage
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
26. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Posture
Shared Position
Ensemble
Gesture
27. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Observe
28. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Shared Position
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Similarities - differences
29. 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
Spontaneity imagination
Subtext
Resonators
Pantomiming
30. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Open
Sense memory
Resonators
Cold Reading
31. 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
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Subtext
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
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
32. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Resonators
Observe
Inflection
33. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Beats
Character development
Similarities - differences
Beats
34. 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.
Pitch
Shared Position
Ensemble
Tell - show
35. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Observe
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Spontaneity imagination
36. The text of the play.
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
Cold reading
Open
37. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Pantomime
Cross
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Observe
38. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Cross
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Pantomime
Project
39. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Shared position
Inflection
Quality
Resonance
40. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
41. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Quality
Pitch
Articulators
Cross
42. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Upstage
Gesture
Impovise
Character development
43. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Beats
Cold Reading
Articulators
44. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Posture
Resonators
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
45. 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.
Ensemble
Open
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Shared Position
46. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Isolate
Open
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Tempo
47. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Beats
Articulators
48. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Spontaneity imagination
Resonators
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Sense memory
49. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Observe
Posture
Inflection
Gesture
50. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Pitch
Tempo
Articulators
Pantomime
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