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