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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. Stealing focus of a scene.
Sense memory
Articulation
Upstage
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility

2. 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
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
Sense memory

3. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Ensemble
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Beats

4. What is good posture?
Pantomime
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Shared position
Ensemble

5. The text of the play.
Cross
Inflection
Beats
Script

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

7. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Inflection
Improvise
Cross
Subtext

8. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Pitch
Project
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Project

9. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Project
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

10. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
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
Tempo
Cross

11. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Resonance.
Posture
Beats
Inflection

12. How high or low your voice is ______.
Subtext
Impovise
Posture
Pitch

13. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Posture
Spontaneity imagination
Story - conflict
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize

14. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Beats
Resonators
Spontaneity imagination

15. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Project
Inflection
Beats

16. 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
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Articulators
Spontaneity imagination

17. How high or low your voice is ______.
Capabilities - limitations
Pitch
Shared position
Tell - show

18. 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
Open
Pitch
Pantomime

19. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Focus
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Beats

20. Stealing focus of a scene.
Cross
Resonance.
Upstage
Articulation

21. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Upstage
Beats
Tempo
Capabilities - limitations

22. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Inflection
Shared Position
articulation

23. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Cold reading
Inflection
Spontaneity imagination

24. What are the three elements of storytelling?

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25. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
articulation
Tell - show
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

26. What is good posture?
Breathing using diaphram
Resonance
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

27. When was storytelling originated?
Capabilities - limitations
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Character development

28. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Inflection
Resonators
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate

29. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Inflection
Resonance.
Isolate

30. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Story - conflict
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Cold Reading
Cross

31. Intended point of interest onstage
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Focus
Inflection
Upstage

32. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Volume
Quality
Volume
Articulators

33. Intended point of interest onstage
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
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Breathing using diaphram
Focus

34. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Isolate
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Tempo
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string

35. What is good posture?
Articulators
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Gesture

36. 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.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Ensemble
Sense memory
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words

37. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Tempo
Character development
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

38. To move from one place onstage to another.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Cross
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Articulation

39. When was storytelling originated?
Shared Position
Project
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate

40. The text of the play is the _____.
Capabilities - limitations
Script
Similarities - differences
Focus

41. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Pantomime
Resonance.
Quality
Volume

42. The text of the play is the _____.
Story - conflict
Sense memory
Focus
Script

43. What is good posture?
Tell - show
Resonators
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

44. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Pantomiming
Resonance
Quality
Character development

45. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Story - conflict
Resonators
Pitch
Resonance.

46. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
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
Story - conflict
Improvise

47. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Upstage
Open

48. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Character development
Pantomiming
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Focus

49. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Gesture
Pantomime
Cold reading

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

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