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