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