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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. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
Shared position
role
audition
objective
2. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
Keeping open on stage while standing
Emotional Memory
keeping open on stage while crossing
your topping the line
3. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
fourth wall
master gesture
keeping open on stage while turning
4. Part in a play
role
keep open on stage while entering through doors
upstage
Acting Generated emotion
5. Control in posture
poise
master gesture
strategy
Leading center
6. 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.
stakes
focus
upstage
cue line
7. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
Shared position
auditors
upstage
Beats
8. The people conducting the auditions
Emotional Memory
auditors
action
Emotional Memory
9. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
pick up your cues
obstacle
action
subtext
10. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
upstage
cast
Upstaging
Spiking the set
11. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
Sense memory
working rehearsal
stakes
keep open on stage while entering
12. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
Leading center
Status quo
emotional memory
sense memory
13. What your character wants
emotional memory
objective
your dropping line
subtext
14. What part of the body you lead with
role
Keeping open on stage while standing
leading center
upstage
15. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
outcome
shared position
status quo
shared position
16. Bridges between the beats
transitions
strategy
sense memory
presentational style
17. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
your dropping line
read through
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
outcome
18. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
upstage
subtext
your topping the line
19. What your character wants
subtext
objective
presentational style
fourth wall
20. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
fourth wall
action
Emotional Memory
pick up your cues
21. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
cold reading
shared position
upstage
poise
22. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
your dropping line
Status quo
Spiking the set
shared position
23. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
poise
auditors
Emotional Memory
role
24. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
pick up your cues
cast
audition
sense memory
25. Enter with your upstage foot
callback
focus
objective
keep open on stage while entering
26. Present circumstances
open
Emotional Memory
keeping open on stage while crossing
status quo
27. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
sense memory
keeping open on stage while crossing
Acting Generated emotion
keeping open on stage while turning
28. Open the door with your upstage hand
Status quo
keep open on stage while entering through doors
audition
Sense memory
29. What the character does
role
your dropping line
action
obstacle
30. A complete reading of the play
read through
motivation
Status quo
upstage
31. A characteristic gesture
your topping the line
master gesture
audition
leading center
32. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
pick up your cues
leading center
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
Shared position
33. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
Spiking the set
your dropping line
pick up your cues
Shared position
34. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
fourth wall
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
open
cue line
35. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
stakes
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
strategy
transitions
36. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
motivation
monologue
representational style
obstacle
37. The intended point of interest on stage
fourth wall
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
focus
cast
38. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
monologue
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
Upstaging
cast
39. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
open
Beats
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
status quo
40. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
presentational style
Beats
41. Bridges between the beats
keep open on stage while entering
Acting Generated emotion
transitions
open
42. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
your dropping line
Beats
Upstaging
poise
43. Part in a play
role
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Status quo
fourth wall
44. When actors work on building characterization
working rehearsal
stage business
motivation
keep open on stage while entering through doors
45. Present circumstances
status quo
emotional memory
upstage
stage business
46. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
your dropping line
emotional memory
read through
Beats
47. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
callback
pick up your cues
upstage
representational style
48. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
audition
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
open
Upstaging
49. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
auditors
cast
transitions
emotional memory
50. Open the door with your upstage hand
open
keep open on stage while entering through doors
role
Sense memory