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