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