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