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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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1. 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
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
Pantomiming
Similarities - differences
2. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Similarities - differences
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Ensemble
3. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Open
Quality
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
4. How loud or soft your voice is.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Beats
Quality
Volume
5. __________ are the parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Beats
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Cold Reading
6. 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
Story - conflict
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Sense memory
7. To move from one place onstage to another.
Phrasing
Cross
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Shared position
8. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Character development
Improvise
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
9. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Capabilities - limitations
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
Open
Tell - show
10. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Cross
Pitch
Observe
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
11. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Capabilities - limitations
Open
Inflection
Beats
12. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Articulation
Subtext
articulation
13. The text of the play is the _____.
Inflection
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
Script
Cold Reading
14. As you explore how your body moves - you will discover it's ______ and it's _______.
Capabilities - limitations
Cross
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
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. Intended point of interest onstage
Sense memory
Focus
Spontaneity imagination
Resonance
16. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Pantomime
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
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
Cold reading
17. What is good posture?
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Pitch
*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.
18. 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
articulation
Capabilities - limitations
Subtext
Cold reading
19. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
Isolate
Pitch
Volume
articulation
20. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
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21. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Sense memory
Project
Resonators
22. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Articulation
Improvise
Pitch
Shared Position
23. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Observe
Project
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Isolate
24. To speak or to act without a script
Quality
Impovise
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Story - conflict
25. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Posture
Story - conflict
Cross
Beats
26. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Cold reading
articulation
Focus
Shared Position
27. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Pantomiming
Focus
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
28. 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.
Ensemble
Cold reading
Beats
Script
29. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Cross
Pantomime
30. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Spontaneity imagination
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
31. How loud or soft your voice is.
Articulators
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Pitch
Volume
32. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Pantomime
Story - conflict
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
33. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
Project
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Posture
34. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
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
Subtext
Improvise
35. 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
Improvise
Observe
Shared position
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
36. Intended point of interest onstage
Pitch
Gesture
Open
Focus
37. 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.
Gesture
Ensemble
Articulation
Articulators
38. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Quality
Articulators
Articulation
Inflection
39. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before.
Cold Reading
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Inflection
Resonance.
40. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Pantomime
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Articulators
Cross
41. The text of the play.
Sense memory
Script
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.
42. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Pitch
Cold Reading
Upstage
Shared position
43. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Beats
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Open
articulation
44. To move from one place onstage to another.
Beats
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Cross
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
45. 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 _________.
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
Articulators
Shared position
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
46. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Inflection
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Project
47. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Cross
Inflection
Beats
Observe
48. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Pitch
Beats
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
49. another way to use improvisation is in _____ _____.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Character development
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Inflection
50. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Pitch
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
Phrasing
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.