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