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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.
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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. The text of the play.
Script
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Resonance
2. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Similarities - differences
Cold reading
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Shared Position
3. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Sense memory
Resonance.
Shared Position
Character development
4. The text of the play is the _____.
Script
Tempo
Quality
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
5. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Inflection
Character development
Ensemble
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
6. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Quality
Breathing using diaphram
Shared position
Project
7. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Character development
Tell - show
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Articulators
8. When was storytelling originated?
Beats
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Sense memory
Spontaneity imagination
9. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
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10. Stealing focus of a scene.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Script
Upstage
Similarities - differences
11. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Beats
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Cross
Subtext
12. 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.
Articulators
Articulation
Script
13. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Similarities - differences
Cold Reading
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Open
14. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Project
Resonance.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Upstage
15. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Tell - show
Articulators
Pantomime
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
16. Your customary way of holding your body
Posture
Phrasing
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
17. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
articulation
Observe
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Upstage
18. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
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
Pitch
Open
19. What is good posture?
Observe
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Focus
Tell - show
20. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Breathing using diaphram
Spontaneity imagination
Shared Position
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
21. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Shared Position
Resonators
Open
Beats
22. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Capabilities - limitations
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Resonators
Resonators
23. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Project
Cross
Inflection
24. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Volume
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.
Inflection
25. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Script
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Spontaneity imagination
Pitch
26. 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
Subtext
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Articulation
Phrasing
27. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
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
Open
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Open
28. 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 _________.
articulation
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Impovise
Shared position
29. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
articulation
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Phrasing
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
30. To move from one place onstage to another.
Pitch
Beats
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Cross
31. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Quality
Open
Posture
Project
32. To move from one place onstage to another.
Improvise
Cross
Subtext
Shared position
33. 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
Quality
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Tell - show
Character development
34. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Resonance.
Quality
Shared position
35. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Pitch
Cold reading
Character development
Articulators
36. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Pitch
Cold reading
Shared position
37. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Resonance.
Ensemble
Open
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
38. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Resonance.
Posture
Pitch
39. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Posture
Character development
Articulators
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
40. 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
Pantomime
Resonators
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
41. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Open
Observe
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
42. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pitch
Pantomime
Similarities - differences
Cold Reading
43. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Subtext
Pitch
Posture
Spontaneity imagination
44. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Improvise
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
45. What are the three elements of storytelling?
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46. 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
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Capabilities - limitations
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Resonance
47. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Inflection
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Cold reading
Beats
48. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Story - conflict
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Cross
Articulators
49. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Project
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Script
Pitch
50. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Articulation
Posture
Observe
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.