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