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Acting Motivation
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Study First
Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. What the character does
cast
action
your dropping line
focus
2. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
Spiking the set
keep open on stage while entering
master gesture
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
3. To move from one place to another on stage
Shared position
representational style
cross
keep open on stage while entering
4. What part of the body you lead with
leading center
action
pick up your cues
subtext
5. What is at risk
stakes
fourth wall
cold reading
action
6. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
sense memory
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
cross
focus
7. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
stage business
focus
Beats
cue line
8. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
cold reading
callback
pick up your cues
your dropping line
9. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
monologue
poise
keep open on stage while entering through doors
your dropping line
10. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
audition
Beats
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Emotional Memory
11. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
objective
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
monologue
12. What makes a character do something
sense memory
read through
keeping open on stage while crossing
motivation
13. Full front - or one quarter left or right
presentational style
Keeping open on stage while standing
subtext
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
14. Present circumstances
read through
master gesture
status quo
read through
15. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
fourth wall
working rehearsal
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
status quo
16. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
stakes
obstacle
poise
Beats
17. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Emotional Memory
working rehearsal
presentational style
18. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
sense memory
your topping the line
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
emotional memory
19. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
callback
role
your topping the line
sense memory
20. When actors work on building characterization
fourth wall
working rehearsal
Emotional Memory
cue line
21. Auditioning with a script you have not read
cold reading
keep open on stage while entering through doors
pick up your cues
sense memory
22. Bridges between the beats
keeping open on stage while turning
transitions
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
auditors
23. Open the door with your upstage hand
outcome
keep open on stage while entering through doors
cross
Acting Generated emotion
24. The people conducting the auditions
auditors
working rehearsal
Emotional Memory
action
25. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
audition
emotional memory
obstacle
subtext
26. A characteristic gesture
Spiking the set
stakes
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
master gesture
27. Turn your hand upstage
Acting Generated emotion
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
role
28. Open the door with your upstage hand
upstage
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
emotional memory
29. A characteristic gesture
master gesture
Beats
presentational style
motivation
30. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
subtext
pick up your cues
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
your dropping line
31. Enter with your upstage foot
open
keep open on stage while entering
monologue
read through
32. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
your topping the line
cold reading
Shared position
role
33. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
Sense memory
subtext
poise
pick up your cues
34. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
keeping open on stage while crossing
stage business
Leading center
keep open on stage while entering through doors
35. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
auditors
your dropping line
Keeping open on stage while standing
Upstaging
36. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
read through
keeping open on stage while turning
Emotional Memory
Spiking the set
37. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
Upstaging
stage business
Acting Generated emotion
your dropping line
38. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
Keeping open on stage while standing
pick up your cues
representational style
callback
39. Control in posture
Sense memory
poise
master gesture
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
40. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
master gesture
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
subtext
Shared position
41. The people conducting the auditions
Shared position
auditors
your topping the line
Beats
42. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
action
subtext
representational style
Leading center
43. Present circumstances
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Beats
callback
status quo
44. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
Leading center
Upstaging
your topping the line
obstacle
45. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
stakes
Sense memory
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
upstage
46. A complete reading of the play
read through
action
outcome
auditors
47. Chosen for a role
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
cast
upstage
callback
48. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
leading center
Acting Generated emotion
emotional memory
49. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
open
keeping open on stage while turning
obstacle
focus
50. A characters present circumstances
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
role
Status quo
Keeping open on stage while standing