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Freshman Acting
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How high or low your voice is
Pitch
Sense memory
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
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
2. 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.
Shared Position
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Similarities - differences
Observe
3. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Upstage
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Pitch
Focus
4. 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
Cold reading
Tell - show
Cold Reading
Project
5. 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 _______.
Inflection
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Project
Subtext
6. To move from one place onstage to another.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Cold Reading
Cross
7. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Improvise
Posture
Posture
Script
8. Stealing focus of a scene.
Capabilities - limitations
Upstage
Articulation
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
9. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
articulation
Open
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
10. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Tell - show
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Open
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
11. 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
Quality
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
12. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Open
Character development
Articulation
Subtext
13. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Subtext
Script
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Inflection
14. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Cross
Open
Resonators
15. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Sense memory
Resonance
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
Resonance.
16. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Pitch
Breathing using diaphram
Observe
Focus
17. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Inflection
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Subtext
18. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
articulation
Project
Similarities - differences
Spontaneity imagination
19. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Cold reading
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
Resonance.
20. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Articulation
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Pitch
Open
21. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Tempo
Gesture
Subtext
Upstage
22. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Resonators
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Quality
Cold reading
23. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Script
Articulators
Gesture
Focus
24. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Gesture
Cross
Project
Spontaneity imagination
25. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Ensemble
Cold reading
Open
Focus
26. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Resonance.
Shared position
Focus
27. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Pantomime
Shared Position
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Breathing using diaphram
28. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Story - conflict
Subtext
Open
29. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Posture
Volume
Phrasing
Breathing using diaphram
30. Intended point of interest onstage
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Focus
Cross
Beats
31. 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
Focus
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Tempo
32. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Inflection
Spontaneity imagination
Articulation
33. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Sense memory
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
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
34. What are the three elements of storytelling?
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35. 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.
Cold reading
Project
Ensemble
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
36. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Inflection
Open
Posture
37. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Posture
Tempo
Inflection
Resonance
38. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
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39. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Cross
Beats
Ensemble
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
40. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Pitch
Beats
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
41. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Observe
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
Focus
Upstage
42. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Open
Pitch
Upstage
43. When was storytelling originated?
Focus
Inflection
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
44. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Character development
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Pitch
45. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Articulators
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Breathing using diaphram
Story - conflict
46. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pantomime
Resonance
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
Beats
47. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Gesture
Project
Improvise
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
48. How high or low your voice is ______.
Observe
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Pitch
Pitch
49. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Open
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Beats
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
50. The text of the play is the _____.
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Script
Isolate
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
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