Acting Flashcards
1
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major roles
A
leading roles
- played by stars
2
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minor roles
A
- supporting roles
- played by “character actors”
3
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small speaking parts
A
- played by “bit players”
4
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non speaking or crowd roles
A
- played by extras
5
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Cameos
A
- brief appearances of well known actors playing themselves
6
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“Star”
A
- a performer whose presence in a film can assure box office success - establish intense personal relations with their publics
7
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Star persona
A
the relatively fixed screen personality of a star
8
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Character Actors
A
- secondary performers who specialize in playing similar, recognizable character types
9
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Typecasting
A
-repeatedly casting an actor (also stars) in the same kind of role
10
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Technical Acting Approach
A
- the actor thinks through the requisite gestures and emotions and then exhibits them
11
Q
Method Acting Approach
A
- the actor seeks to portray a character by using personal experience and emotions as a foundation for the portrayal
12
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Brechtian acting
A
- the actor creates a psychological distance between him/her and the audience (they often step out of character)
13
Q
improvisation
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- can be seen as an extension of method acting; an avoidance of any technical mannerism
14
Q
2 kinds of contemporary approaches to film acting
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naturalistic
non-naturalistic
15
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Naturalistic Contemporary approach
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- when actors recreate recognizable or plausible human behaviour for the camera
- ex) the office
