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