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