Acting

Question 1

What is the presented definition of acting?

Answer 1

The live representation of a character, creating a believable illusion

Question 2

What are the three natural tools of an actor?

Answer 2

Voice
Body
Mind

Question 3

What is the 4th wall?

Answer 3

The imaginary barrier between the action and audience

Question 4

What is a monologue?

Answer 4

A 1-2 minute individual piece (talks to the audience)

Question 5

What does C.R.O.W. stand for?

Answer 5

Character
Relationship
Objective
Where

Question 6

What role does the mask play?

Answer 6

• the first critical device for an actor

- Serves as the justification to portray powers beyond the individual

Question 7

What are the 4 presented audition types?

Answer 7

1. Monologue
2. Cold reading
3. Pipeline
4. Cattle Call

Question 8

What two general techniques do actors employ to attain a character, and how would you describe them?

Answer 8

Technical - physical to emotional; outside to inside

Method - emotional to the physical; inside to the outside

Question 9

What are the 4 examples of Technical Acting?

Answer 9

1. Commedia dell’arte
2. Improvisation (and CROW)
3. Clown
4. Kabuki - Noh

Question 10

What are the 4 examples of Method Acting?

Answer 10

1. Childhood memories/True empathy
2. The Animal
3. Substitution
4. Sense memory

Question 11

Why is empathy important to an actor?

Answer 11

It is the capacity to recognize and share feelings
Understand your own emotions
Understand the emotions of others

Question 12

What is the “Magic If”?

Answer 12

A hypothetical question asking what you do in the character’s place

Question 13

Why are childhood memories and animal exercises often used in method style acting?

Answer 13

To relive moments of a characters life to better understand where they are today
Animal: Instincts, no filter, finding triggers into why we do something when we do them

Question 14

What is substitution?

Answer 14

Identifying with an equitable emotion(s) you can substitute your emotion(s) with the presented requirement

Question 15

What is sense memory?

Answer 15

Identifying then stimulating your five senses to identify with a moment, object, or emotion

Question 16

What is the difference between an objective and a super objective?

Answer 16

Obj: something immediate; a want, something you can complete

Super obj.: overarching goal; an end obj.

Question 17

What are tactics?

Answer 17

A character’s (or your) strategy to complete their objective

Question 18

What goals should you have an as actor during the rehearsal and performance stage?

Answer 18

1. Never break character on stage
2. Blocking needs to be memorized. Write it down during rehearsal.
3. Be consistent
4. Maintain control
5. Be prepared for rehearsals
6. All lines need to be memorized accurately
7. Don’t present a stereotype
8. Rehearse as if it is a performance
9. Voices need to be heard in the back row (projection) and be clearly understood (enunciation)
10. Move beyond the lines
11. Listen
12. By making others on stage look better, you look better

Question 19

Why is a character’s history important?

Answer 19

It builds the context of why we are here in the particular moment.