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Freshman Acting

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The text of the play.
Script
Shared position
Upstage
Subtext

2. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Posture
Script
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Similarities - differences

3. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
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
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Inflection

4. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Cold Reading
Resonators
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words

5. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Sense memory
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

6. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Volume
Open
Articulators
Upstage

7. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Focus
Focus

8. How high or low your voice is ______.
articulation
Pitch
Similarities - differences
Resonators

9. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Cross
Script
Capabilities - limitations
Resonance.

10. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Character development
Cross
Tempo
Project

11. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Resonance.
Character development

12. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Impovise
Shared position
Articulation
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional

13. Stealing focus of a scene.
Upstage
Resonance
Pantomime
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate

14. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Focus
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Cross

15. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Script
Subtext
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Quality

16. Stealing focus of a scene.
Cross
Upstage
Inflection
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

17. What are the three elements of storytelling?

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18. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Resonance.
Tell - show
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Pantomime

19. When was storytelling originated?
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
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
Observe

20. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
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

21. How high or low your voice is ______.
Pitch
Ensemble
Project
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions

22. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Quality
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Inflection
Project

23. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Shared Position
Pitch
Focus
Pitch

24. The parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Quality
Articulators
Open
Cold Reading

25. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Posture
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Resonators

26. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Upstage
Open
Shared Position
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string

27. 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.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Similarities - differences

28. To develop self awareness - you will need to ________ yourself from the outside and refelct upon yourself from the inside.
Pitch
Gesture
Pantomiming
Observe

29. Intended point of interest onstage
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Sense memory
Focus
Improvise

30. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Focus
Phrasing
Cross
Inflection

31. 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 _______.
Upstage
Subtext
Script
Inflection

32. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Cold reading
Phrasing
Breathing using diaphram
Character development

33. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Shared Position
Subtext
Subtext

34. 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 _______.
Pantomime
Tempo
Script
Subtext

35. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Gesture
Articulators
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Resonance.

36. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Tempo
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.

37. _______ is your customary way of holding your body.
Character development
Inflection
Improvise
Posture

38. 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.
Upstage
Ensemble
Beats
Character development

39. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Quality
Ensemble
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words

40. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Sense memory
Articulators
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
Pitch

41. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Resonators
Articulation
Project
Improvise

42. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
articulation
Sense memory
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Posture

43. Your customary way of holding your body
Cross
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
Posture
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.

44. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Script
Open
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Posture

45. When was storytelling originated?
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Quality
Focus
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.

46. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Cross
Shared position
Upstage

47. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
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
Beats
Breathing using diaphram
Pantomiming

48. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Spontaneity imagination
Script
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Upstage

49. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Subtext
Tell - show
Project
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales

50. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
articulation
Inflection
Similarities - differences
Phrasing