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