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Freshman Acting
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Pantomiming
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Sense memory
Inflection
2. When was storytelling originated?
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Capabilities - limitations
Spontaneity imagination
Upstage
3. Your customary way of holding your body
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Posture
Script
Upstage
4. A quality cause by vibration that enriches the vocal tone.
Cross
Resonance
Open
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
5. The text of the play is the _____.
Articulation
Script
Tell - show
Subtext
6. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Cross
Subtext
Shared position
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
7. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Focus
Pantomime
Impovise
Pantomiming
8. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Volume
Resonance
Impovise
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
9. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
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
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
Resonators
Subtext
10. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Cold reading
Cold Reading
Character development
11. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Resonance.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Sense memory
Resonators
12. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Resonators
Shared Position
Open
13. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Open
14. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Cold Reading
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
Tempo
15. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Cross
Articulators
Resonators
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
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
Articulators
Cross
Inflection
17. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Impovise
Phrasing
Open
18. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
articulation
Pantomime
Story - conflict
Focus
19. What are the three elements of storytelling?
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20. To move from one place onstage to another.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Open
Cross
Articulators
21. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Articulators
Tempo
Articulation
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
22. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulators
Character development
Impovise
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
23. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Isolate
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Improvise
Inflection
24. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Subtext
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Breathing using diaphram
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
25. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Articulation
Pantomime
Articulators
Isolate
26. 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
Gesture
Pitch
Open
27. How loud or soft your voice is.
Cross
Subtext
Volume
Beats
28. 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.
Volume
Similarities - differences
Phrasing
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
29. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
Upstage
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Cross
30. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Tempo
Inflection
Articulators
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
31. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Pitch
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Articulation
32. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Character development
Isolate
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Phrasing
33. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Impovise
Tell - show
Articulators
Capabilities - limitations
34. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Resonance.
Pitch
Focus
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
35. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
36. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Sense memory
Character development
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Pitch
37. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Capabilities - limitations
Character development
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
Beats
38. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Cold reading
Resonators
Articulation
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
39. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Phrasing
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Volume
Upstage
40. Intended point of interest onstage
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Focus
Volume
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
41. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Pantomiming
Upstage
Upstage
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
42. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Shared Position
Pantomime
Pantomiming
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
43. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Resonators
Articulators
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
44. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Improvise
Focus
Breathing using diaphram
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
45. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Isolate
Gesture
Pitch
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
46. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Cold reading
Volume
Resonance
Upstage
47. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Cold Reading
Shared Position
Gesture
Pitch
48. What are the three elements of storytelling?
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49. 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 _________.
Spontaneity imagination
Sense memory
Shared position
Impovise
50. 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.
articulation
Observe
Focus
Ensemble