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