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