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Freshman Acting
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Study First
Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
2. Stealing focus of a scene.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Upstage
Articulators
3. The text of the play is the _____.
Impovise
Cross
Beats
Script
4. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Project
Story - conflict
5. 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
Cross
Subtext
Posture
Capabilities - limitations
6. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Improvise
Spontaneity imagination
Tempo
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
7. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Upstage
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Project
Volume
8. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Posture
Articulators
Observe
Inflection
9. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
articulation
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
10. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Capabilities - limitations
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
11. The text of the play is the _____.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Resonance.
Story - conflict
Script
12. 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.
Story - conflict
articulation
13. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Focus
Beats
Pitch
Open
14. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Script
Beats
Character development
Similarities - differences
15. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Resonators
Inflection
Tell - show
16. When was storytelling originated?
Cross
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Sense memory
Beats
17. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Pantomime
Cross
Breathing using diaphram
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
18. What are the three elements of storytelling?
19. 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 _______.
Volume
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Cross
Subtext
20. 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
Tell - show
Inflection
Volume
Articulation
21. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Upstage
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
Script
22. 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
Beats
Observe
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
23. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
24. Intended point of interest onstage
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Focus
Posture
25. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Gesture
Tell - show
Subtext
26. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Cross
Focus
Tempo
Pitch
27. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Shared Position
Phrasing
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Resonators
28. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Cross
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Pantomime
Isolate
29. What are the three elements of storytelling?
30. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Quality
Resonance.
Upstage
Story - conflict
31. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Pitch
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Phrasing
Cold reading
32. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
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
Character development
Open
33. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Tell - show
Character development
Inflection
Isolate
34. The text of the play.
Script
Resonators
Resonance.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
35. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Resonators
Resonance.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
36. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Articulation
Pantomime
Upstage
Tempo
37. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Pantomime
Upstage
Sense memory
Improvise
38. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Resonators
Open
Pitch
39. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pantomime
Shared position
Pitch
Gesture
40. 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.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Pantomime
Tell - show
41. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Character development
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cold reading
Isolate
42. How loud or soft your voice is.
Open
Inflection
Volume
Articulation
43. What is good posture?
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Focus
articulation
Resonators
44. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Spontaneity imagination
Gesture
Cross
Subtext
45. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Resonators
Pitch
Focus
46. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before.
Resonators
Cold Reading
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
47. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Capabilities - limitations
Resonators
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
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
48. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Open
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Inflection
Script
49. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Observe
Shared position
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
50. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Upstage
Articulators