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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. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
cue line
Spiking the set
shared position
obstacle
2. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
stage business
callback
cast
leading center
3. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
representational style
emotional memory
leading center
read through
4. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
callback
keeping open on stage while turning
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
Shared position
5. The intended point of interest on stage
auditors
focus
read through
upstage
6. A complete reading of the play
read through
working rehearsal
keep open on stage while entering
Status quo
7. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
fourth wall
Status quo
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
subtext
8. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
keeping open on stage while crossing
obstacle
Sense memory
cross
9. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
callback
sense memory
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
10. Where the actors acknowledge the audience
keeping open on stage while turning
cue line
presentational style
objective
11. Control in posture
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
transitions
poise
stage business
12. To move from one place to another on stage
Spiking the set
stakes
cross
your dropping line
13. Your memory of sights - smells - tastes - sounds and textures
keep open on stage while entering
sense memory
strategy
representational style
14. A complete reading of the play
Spiking the set
representational style
read through
action
15. Something preventing the character from getting the objective
Keeping open on stage while standing
obstacle
Emotional Memory
focus
16. Chosen for a role
shared position
cast
outcome
open
17. How a character overcomes the obstacle
strategy
your dropping line
action
Keeping open on stage while standing
18. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
pick up your cues
emotional memory
read through
Sense memory
19. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
your topping the line
Upstaging
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
sense memory
20. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
auditors
sense memory
motivation
21. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
fourth wall
sense memory
subtext
Status quo
22. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
outcome
leading center
keeping open on stage while turning
Shared position
23. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
Leading center
fourth wall
Upstaging
Beats
24. Enter with your upstage foot
keep open on stage while entering
presentational style
status quo
callback
25. The people conducting the auditions
subtext
auditors
cast
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
26. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
upstage
Leading center
Acting Generated emotion
27. A characteristic gesture
master gesture
Sense memory
role
callback
28. Control in posture
objective
poise
subtext
master gesture
29. What is at risk
keeping open on stage while crossing
status quo
stakes
subtext
30. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
Beats
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
leading center
motivation
31. Part in a play
shared position
strategy
role
cross
32. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
upstage
working rehearsal
Beats
stage business
33. The people conducting the auditions
auditors
Leading center
strategy
cast
34. What your character wants
Upstaging
objective
cold reading
open
35. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
read through
pick up your cues
shared position
Shared position
36. Bridges between the beats
Leading center
transitions
representational style
stage business
37. Full front - or one quarter left or right
Acting Generated emotion
Keeping open on stage while standing
Beats
working rehearsal
38. Auditioning with a script you have not read
cold reading
poise
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
stage business
39. What the character does
subtext
open
Beats
action
40. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
auditors
pick up your cues
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
fourth wall
41. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
emotional memory
keeping open on stage while turning
shared position
working rehearsal
42. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
action
role
fourth wall
cue line
43. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
obstacle
cast
cue line
fourth wall
44. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
open
stage business
auditors
representational style
45. Turn your hand upstage
open
motivation
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
audition
46. 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
stakes
your topping the line
47. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
presentational style
keeping open on stage while turning
Beats
your topping the line
48. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
cast
keeping open on stage while turning
audition
keep open on stage while entering
49. What makes a character do something
transitions
cast
open
motivation
50. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
Status quo
Emotional Memory
Spiking the set
Spiking the set