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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
your dropping line
cue line
stage business
leading center
2. Open the door with your upstage hand
working rehearsal
Status quo
monologue
keep open on stage while entering through doors
3. A characters present circumstances
monologue
cue line
Spiking the set
Status quo
4. 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.
read through
Status quo
Emotional Memory
upstage
5. Present circumstances
status quo
read through
keeping open on stage while crossing
Keeping open on stage while standing
6. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
keep open on stage while entering
callback
Sense memory
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
7. What the character does
shared position
callback
Keeping open on stage while standing
action
8. Chosen for a role
Beats
fourth wall
cast
upstage
9. Control in posture
leading center
poise
pick up your cues
Leading center
10. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
master gesture
presentational style
subtext
Sense memory
11. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
obstacle
action
Beats
outcome
12. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
transitions
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
poise
fourth wall
13. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
Keeping open on stage while standing
emotional memory
callback
open
14. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
emotional memory
your topping the line
open
Beats
15. Open the door with your upstage hand
keep open on stage while entering through doors
keep open on stage while entering
master gesture
cue line
16. Chosen for a role
pick up your cues
audition
cue line
cast
17. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
shared position
cue line
master gesture
presentational style
18. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
Sense memory
Shared position
Upstaging
working rehearsal
19. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
presentational style
Spiking the set
cast
emotional memory
20. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
Status quo
keeping open on stage while turning
cue line
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
21. How a character overcomes the obstacle
strategy
Emotional Memory
stage business
Shared position
22. What your character wants
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
focus
objective
working rehearsal
23. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
keeping open on stage while crossing
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Shared position
Emotional Memory
24. Part in a play
leading center
monologue
role
cast
25. Full front - or one quarter left or right
Keeping open on stage while standing
open
monologue
objective
26. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
emotional memory
action
keeping open on stage while turning
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
27. The intended point of interest on stage
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
focus
motivation
read through
28. The people conducting the auditions
auditors
keep open on stage while entering
cast
subtext
29. 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.
subtext
presentational style
objective
Leading center
30. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
leading center
presentational style
cold reading
upstage
31. A complete reading of the play
fourth wall
focus
read through
your topping the line
32. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
Emotional Memory
subtext
fourth wall
outcome
33. What part of the body you lead with
keeping open on stage while crossing
focus
leading center
shared position
34. What makes a character do something
your topping the line
presentational style
subtext
motivation
35. To move from one place to another on stage
Leading center
cross
Keeping open on stage while standing
transitions
36. A characteristic gesture
Emotional Memory
master gesture
focus
your dropping line
37. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
audition
keeping open on stage while crossing
Sense memory
action
38. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
upstage
stage business
presentational style
stakes
39. When actors work on building characterization
Spiking the set
working rehearsal
stakes
presentational style
40. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
read through
your topping the line
keep open on stage while entering
Status quo
41. When actors work on building characterization
role
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
working rehearsal
motivation
42. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
keeping open on stage while turning
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
emotional memory
43. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
audition
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
Emotional Memory
your topping the line
44. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
Leading center
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
upstage
representational style
45. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
cast
fourth wall
motivation
obstacle
46. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
monologue
working rehearsal
sense memory
Emotional Memory
47. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
Shared position
read through
representational style
Upstaging
48. What is at risk
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
outcome
status quo
stakes
49. What your character wants
keeping open on stage while turning
objective
pick up your cues
master gesture
50. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
audition
pick up your cues
auditors
Keeping open on stage while standing