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Acting Motivation
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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.
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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. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
subtext
stakes
pick up your cues
keeping open on stage while turning
2. 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.
subtext
Acting Generated emotion
open
stage business
3. Auditioning with a script you have not read
keep open on stage while entering through doors
motivation
cold reading
stakes
4. To move from one place to another on stage
leading center
open
cross
auditors
5. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
presentational style
pick up your cues
subtext
outcome
6. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
objective
poise
Acting Generated emotion
outcome
7. What part of the body you lead with
poise
subtext
leading center
emotional memory
8. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
strategy
callback
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
stage business
9. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
working rehearsal
role
objective
outcome
10. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
outcome
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
open
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
11. The people conducting the auditions
auditors
emotional memory
audition
transitions
12. The intended point of interest on stage
strategy
open
focus
your dropping line
13. A characteristic gesture
master gesture
auditors
Emotional Memory
monologue
14. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
pick up your cues
stakes
audition
objective
15. The intended point of interest on stage
focus
role
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
presentational style
16. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
monologue
your dropping line
poise
poise
17. When actors work on building characterization
upstage
transitions
cross
working rehearsal
18. Chosen for a role
cast
cold reading
obstacle
transitions
19. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
presentational style
stage business
role
Spiking the set
20. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
cold reading
outcome
sense memory
21. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
Sense memory
Upstaging
cue line
Spiking the set
22. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
status quo
action
motivation
keeping open on stage while turning
23. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
transitions
cue line
keeping open on stage while crossing
stage business
24. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
sense memory
Leading center
action
Status quo
25. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
callback
pick up your cues
Status quo
cross
26. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
fourth wall
Acting Generated emotion
Spiking the set
your topping the line
27. What the character does
keep open on stage while entering through doors
action
leading center
outcome
28. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
subtext
cross
keeping open on stage while crossing
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
29. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
Emotional Memory
audition
fourth wall
30. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
open
working rehearsal
obstacle
leading center
31. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage forcing the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the actor - stealing the focus of the scene.
subtext
upstage
keeping open on stage while crossing
auditors
32. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
presentational style
subtext
emotional memory
presentational style
33. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
cast
Leading center
Spiking the set
34. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
objective
action
your dropping line
cue line
35. Auditioning with a script you have not read
Spiking the set
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
cold reading
keeping open on stage while turning
36. Chosen for a role
transitions
keeping open on stage while turning
Sense memory
cast
37. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
sense memory
objective
cross
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
38. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
monologue
Sense memory
representational style
role
39. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
subtext
Emotional Memory
Shared position
focus
40. What is at risk
Beats
status quo
stakes
focus
41. How a character overcomes the obstacle
transitions
cold reading
strategy
Keeping open on stage while standing
42. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
your dropping line
shared position
leading center
43. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
callback
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
keep open on stage while entering through doors
keeping open on stage while turning
44. The people conducting the auditions
master gesture
cast
auditors
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
45. Bridges between the beats
transitions
focus
master gesture
role
46. Control in posture
Leading center
poise
objective
transitions
47. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
strategy
callback
monologue
role
48. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
presentational style
Acting Generated emotion
status quo
stage business
49. What the character does
action
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
focus
strategy
50. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
Shared position
Spiking the set
Leading center
sense memory