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Freshman Acting

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Inflection
Sense memory
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility

2. 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
Sense memory
Pitch
Subtext

3. To move from one place onstage to another.
Pitch
Cross
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.

4. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Pitch
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Pitch

5. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Upstage
Open
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Focus

6. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Resonators
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Story - conflict
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate

7. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Beats
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
Cross

8. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Beats
Breathing using diaphram
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Ensemble

9. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Inflection
Cold reading
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Subtext

10. ______ is a position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's position.
Ensemble
Story - conflict
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Inflection

11. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Pantomime
Upstage
Resonators
Open

12. ______ is acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Beats
Isolate
Pantomiming
Inflection

13. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
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
Cold Reading
Ensemble
Posture

14. To move from one place onstage to another.
Pantomiming
Shared Position
Cross
Pitch

15. A quality caused by vibration that enriches the vocal tone is _______.
Pitch
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
Similarities - differences
Resonance.

16. _____ is the intended point of interest onstage.
Spontaneity imagination
Upstage
Similarities - differences
Story - conflict

17. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Articulators
Breathing using diaphram
Articulation
Cold reading

18. ____________ is your memory of sights - sounds - smells - tastes - and textures.
Story - conflict
Tell - show
Sense memory
Posture

19. Vowels are formed by ________ which are the _______ - _____ - _--__ - and the ______.
Focus
Cold reading
Volume
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses

20. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Breathing using diaphram
Volume
Gesture
Story - conflict

21. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Articulators
Volume

22. The text of the play is the _____.
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
Script
Beats
Focus

23. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Resonators
Cold reading

24. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Beats
Script
Phrasing
Articulators

25. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Cross
Inflection
Sense memory
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate

26. What is good posture?
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Posture
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Resonance.

27. How high or low your voice is ______.
Focus
Pitch
Posture
Capabilities - limitations

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

29. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Open
Pantomime
Shared position

30. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Quality
Open
Cross

31. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called ______.
Script
Focus
Pantomime
Resonators

32. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Subtext
Articulation
Shared Position

33. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Spontaneity imagination
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Beats

34. How high or low your voice is
Pitch
Sense memory
Tempo
Cross

35. What are the three elements of storytelling?

36. How high or low your voice is
Beats
Cold reading
Pitch
Improvise

37. The text of the play.
Script
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Upstage
Script

38. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible is called remaining ______.
Resonance.
Open
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Capabilities - limitations

39. 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 _________.
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Tempo
Articulators
Shared position

40. Improvisation requires _____ -____ and the ability to use past experiences.
Pantomiming
Script
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
Inflection

41. To speak or to act without a script
Impovise
Isolate
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.

42. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Upstage
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Posture
Pitch

43. To move from one place onstage is another is called_____.
Cross
articulation
Observe
Inflection

44. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Pitch
Cross
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Cold reading

45. What are the three jobs your voice must do during a performance?

46. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Improvise
Posture

47. When was storytelling originated?
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Upstage
Phrasing

48. What is good posture?
Script
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Cross

49. To _______ means to set apart or detach.
Isolate
Shared position
Breathing using diaphram
Gesture

50. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Tempo
Tell - show
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Resonance.