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