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