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Freshman Acting

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The text of the play.
Sense memory
Script
Cold Reading
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility

2. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Focus
Improvise
Breathing using diaphram
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

3. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Cold reading
Inflection
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Tempo

4. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Inflection
Tempo
Pitch
Sense memory

5. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Resonators
articulation
Pitch

6. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Isolate
Focus
Tempo
Capabilities - limitations

7. How high or low your voice is
Inflection
Pitch
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Script

8. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Quality
Resonators
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Articulators

9. What are the three elements of storytelling?

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10. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Project
articulation
Pitch
Inflection

11. Your customary way of holding your body
Improvise
Posture
Subtext
Beats

12. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Volume
Spontaneity imagination
Shared Position
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses

13. 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
Character development
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Tell - show
Cross

14. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Shared Position
Cross
Phrasing
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility

15. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Beats
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Pitch
Open

16. What is good posture?
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Story - conflict
Pitch

17. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Sense memory
Cross
Inflection
Project

18. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Pantomiming
Open
Open
Inflection

19. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Pitch
Gesture
Articulators
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

20. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Resonators
Pantomime
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Articulators

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

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22. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Resonance.
Observe
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Cross

23. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Volume
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Isolate
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.

24. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Cold Reading
Character development
Script
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

25. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Observe
Beats
Improvise
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional

26. Stealing focus of a scene.
Open
Phrasing
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Upstage

27. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
articulation
Gesture
Resonance.
Shared position

28. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Articulation
Cross
Similarities - differences

29. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Quality
Story - conflict
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Resonators

30. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Upstage
Beats
Articulators
Pantomime

31. The text of the play.
Ensemble
Script
Tempo
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize

32. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Articulators
Inflection
Cross
Gesture

33. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Pantomiming
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Project
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility

34. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
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
Resonators

35. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Beats
Quality
Ensemble
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

36. 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
Character development
Upstage
Resonators
Subtext

37. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Pitch
Pitch
Articulators
Inflection

38. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Script
Resonance.
Pantomiming
Pitch

39. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Pantomime
Cold Reading
Spontaneity imagination
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

40. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Focus
Focus

41. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before.
Isolate
Cold Reading
articulation
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

42. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Posture
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Open
Shared Position

43. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Impovise
Breathing using diaphram
Beats

44. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Inflection
Quality
Cross
Resonance.

45. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Quality
Gesture
Shared position
Articulation

46. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Upstage
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Similarities - differences
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.

47. What is good posture?
Upstage
Pitch
Open
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string

48. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pitch
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Script
Resonators

49. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Improvise
Resonators
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Shared Position

50. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Resonance
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Beats
Open