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Freshman Acting
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Sense memory
Script
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
2. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Pitch
Pantomiming
Articulators
Resonance.
3. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Improvise
Pantomime
Inflection
Cold reading
4. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Isolate
5. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Script
Improvise
Resonance.
Ensemble
6. What is good posture?
Tempo
Script
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
7. How loud or soft your voice is.
Cross
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Volume
Sense memory
8. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Resonators
Project
Shared Position
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
9. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
10. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Inflection
Subtext
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Similarities - differences
11. To speak or to act without a script
Impovise
Shared Position
Sense memory
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
12. To speak or to act without a script
Capabilities - limitations
Impovise
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Improvise
13. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Phrasing
Ensemble
Posture
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
14. Through your interactions - you will begin to develop a working - tursting relationships wand to learn what it takes to be a part of an ______ - a group whose individuals function together to create a whole.
Sense memory
Isolate
Pitch
Ensemble
15. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Articulation
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
articulation
Capabilities - limitations
16. Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before.
Cross
Cold Reading
Ensemble
Observe
17. Intended point of interest onstage
Posture
Cold Reading
Subtext
Focus
18. When was storytelling originated?
Focus
Subtext
Articulators
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
19. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Project
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cross
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
20. Information This is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words is _______.
Beats
Project
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Subtext
21. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Open
Resonators
Tempo
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
22. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
articulation
Inflection
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Script
23. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Gesture
Cross
Isolate
Pitch
24. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Beats
Pitch
Resonance.
Volume
25. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pitch
Shared Position
Tell - show
Upstage
26. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Upstage
Similarities - differences
Volume
Pantomime
27. When was storytelling originated?
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Observe
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Story - conflict
28. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Inflection
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Breathing using diaphram
29. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Project
Resonators
Articulators
Subtext
30. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
articulation
Similarities - differences
Articulators
Posture
31. Information that is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words
Resonators
Subtext
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Resonators
32. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Spontaneity imagination
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Gesture
33. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Gesture
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Tell - show
Open
34. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Cold Reading
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Subtext
Shared Position
35. In improvisation you must also pay close _____ to what your fellow actors are saying and doing so you can ____ accordingly. ____ _____ is also vital for improvisation
Articulators
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
36. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Spontaneity imagination
Focus
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Observe
37. The text of the play is the _____.
Script
Pantomiming
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Focus
38. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Script
Impovise
Articulators
Capabilities - limitations
39. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Articulation
Cold Reading
Project
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
40. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?
41. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage - forming the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor; stealing focus of a scene is called _________.
Articulation
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Shared position
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
42. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Pitch
Articulators
43. A major difference between the traditions of storytelling and theatre is that storytellers generally _____ a story - punctuation it with the imitation of character voices and gestures - while actors generally ____ a show - supply explanation when nec
Posture
Breathing using diaphram
Focus
Tell - show
44. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Observe
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Upstage
45. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Tempo
Articulators
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Posture
46. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Quality
Gesture
Posture
Script
47. To move from one place onstage to another.
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Cross
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Subtext
48. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Resonators
Cold Reading
49. A major difference between the traditions of storytelling and theatre is that storytellers generally _____ a story - punctuation it with the imitation of character voices and gestures - while actors generally ____ a show - supply explanation when nec
Tell - show
Impovise
Similarities - differences
Project
50. When you understand the _____ and ______ between you and the character you will be portraying - those _______ and ______ can be accentuated by your body and your voice.
Sense memory
Observe
Breathing using diaphram
Similarities - differences