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Freshman Acting

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Cold Reading
Resonators
Volume
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize

2. How loud or soft your voice is.
Quality
Volume
Focus
Beats

3. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Posture
Articulators

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
Phrasing
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Cold reading
Subtext

5. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Open
Gesture
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions

6. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Beats
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
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
Character development

7. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Open
articulation
Script
Resonators

8. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Resonators
Articulators
Articulators

9. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Upstage
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Posture
Articulators

10. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Project
Impovise
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

11. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Script
Character development
Shared Position
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.

12. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Phrasing
Articulation
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

13. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
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.
Sense memory
Story - conflict

14. What is good posture?
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Resonators
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

15. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Observe
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
Quality
Isolate

16. How high or low your voice is
Inflection
Phrasing
Gesture
Pitch

17. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Isolate
Articulation
Pantomime
Posture

18. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Pantomiming
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.

19. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Tell - show
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Pitch

20. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Posture
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Ensemble
Pitch

21. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Open
Character development
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Script

22. To speak or to act without a script
Story - conflict
Subtext
Impovise
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

23. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pitch
Focus
Spontaneity imagination
Similarities - differences

24. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Resonators
Pitch
Tempo
Project

25. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Resonators
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

26. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Ensemble
Upstage
Tempo
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.

27. What is good posture?
Pitch
Similarities - differences
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string

28. How high or low your voice is
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Script
Pitch
Similarities - differences

29. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Articulation

30. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Breathing using diaphram
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Subtext
Observe

31. 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.
Volume
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Gesture
Ensemble

32. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Tell - show
Beats

33. Intended point of interest onstage
Articulators
Focus
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Capabilities - limitations

34. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Posture
Volume
Resonance
Shared Position

35. Stealing focus of a scene.
Upstage
Story - conflict
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Resonance

36. 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
Upstage
Pitch
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility

37. When you understand the _____ and ______ between you and the character you will be portraying - those _______ and ______ can be accentuated by your body and your voice.
Similarities - differences
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
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
Posture

38. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Subtext
Resonance.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Shared Position

39. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Pantomiming
Character development
Project
Resonators

40. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Ensemble
Observe
Improvise
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

41. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Impovise
Project

42. How high or low your voice is ______.
Resonators
articulation
Pitch
Articulators

43. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Posture
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Cold Reading
Observe

44. The text of the play.
Script
Focus
Tempo
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

45. Intended point of interest onstage
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Focus
Resonators
Isolate

46. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Cold reading
Resonators
Inflection
Resonators

47. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Upstage
Tempo
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Sense memory

48. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Breathing using diaphram
Similarities - differences
Cross
Shared Position

49. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Cold reading
Shared Position
Inflection
Resonance

50. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
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
Pantomime
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.