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