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