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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. A complete reading of the play
representational style
pick up your cues
presentational style
read through
2. Control in posture
poise
shared position
strategy
callback
3. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
objective
open
Spiking the set
subtext
4. Chosen for a role
auditors
objective
upstage
cast
5. Full front - or one quarter left or right
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Keeping open on stage while standing
sense memory
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
6. 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.
master gesture
objective
emotional memory
subtext
7. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
transitions
keeping open on stage while turning
sense memory
Leading center
8. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
motivation
upstage
keeping open on stage while crossing
subtext
9. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
your dropping line
fourth wall
obstacle
read through
10. A characters present circumstances
Status quo
transitions
monologue
action
11. Bridges between the beats
audition
transitions
strategy
stakes
12. A characteristic gesture
stage business
master gesture
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
role
13. Bridges between the beats
keep open on stage while entering
stakes
transitions
Acting Generated emotion
14. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
motivation
action
Shared position
emotional memory
15. Turn your hand upstage
Upstaging
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
cold reading
Upstaging
16. What part of the body you lead with
leading center
monologue
cross
action
17. The intended point of interest on stage
keep open on stage while entering through doors
cold reading
focus
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
18. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
read through
auditors
Sense memory
Upstaging
19. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Upstaging
read through
status quo
20. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
Upstaging
motivation
transitions
sense memory
21. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
motivation
leading center
focus
stage business
22. The people conducting the auditions
cross
presentational style
status quo
auditors
23. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
cold reading
emotional memory
callback
fourth wall
24. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
subtext
objective
presentational style
your topping the line
25. 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.
subtext
outcome
keep open on stage while entering
upstage
26. Full front - or one quarter left or right
subtext
cue line
Keeping open on stage while standing
working rehearsal
27. A characteristic gesture
role
your topping the line
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
master gesture
28. Enter with your upstage foot
cast
leading center
auditors
keep open on stage while entering
29. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
keeping open on stage while crossing
obstacle
callback
monologue
30. Chosen for a role
pick up your cues
read through
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
cast
31. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
open
action
outcome
presentational style
32. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
Emotional Memory
keeping open on stage while crossing
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
action
33. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
upstage
leading center
your dropping line
pick up your cues
34. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
obstacle
Spiking the set
poise
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
35. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
auditors
obstacle
Sense memory
your topping the line
36. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
working rehearsal
focus
Leading center
master gesture
37. What your character wants
outcome
objective
fourth wall
monologue
38. Auditioning with a script you have not read
cold reading
role
keep open on stage while entering
action
39. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
representational style
Spiking the set
Leading center
40. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
presentational style
outcome
stage business
Leading center
41. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
presentational style
Leading center
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
pick up your cues
42. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
subtext
stage business
obstacle
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
43. Enter with your upstage foot
upstage
keep open on stage while entering
auditors
cue line
44. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
Upstaging
auditors
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
Acting Generated emotion
45. Open the door with your upstage hand
leading center
your topping the line
keep open on stage while entering through doors
your dropping line
46. The people conducting the auditions
obstacle
auditors
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
open
47. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
master gesture
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
focus
48. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
read through
role
outcome
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
49. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
shared position
audition
Leading center
objective
50. When actors work on building characterization
working rehearsal
keeping open on stage while crossing
open
sense memory