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