Acting Flashcards
What is the presented definition of acting?
The live representation of a character, creating a believable illusion
What are the three natural tools of an actor?
Voice
Body
Mind
What is the 4th wall?
The imaginary barrier between the action and audience
What is a monologue?
A 1-2 minute individual piece (talks to the audience)
What does C.R.O.W. stand for?
Character
Relationship
Objective
Where
What role does the mask play?
- the first critical device for an actor
- Serves as the justification to portray powers beyond the individual
What are the 4 presented audition types?
- Monologue
- Cold reading
- Pipeline
- Cattle Call
What two general techniques do actors employ to attain a character, and how would you describe them?
Technical - physical to emotional; outside to inside
Method - emotional to the physical; inside to the outside
What are the 4 examples of Technical Acting?
- Commedia dell’arte
- Improvisation (and CROW)
- Clown
- Kabuki - Noh
What are the 4 examples of Method Acting?
- Childhood memories/True empathy
- The Animal
- Substitution
- Sense memory
Why is empathy important to an actor?
It is the capacity to recognize and share feelings
Understand your own emotions
Understand the emotions of others
What is the “Magic If”?
A hypothetical question asking what you do in the character’s place
Why are childhood memories and animal exercises often used in method style acting?
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
What is substitution?
Identifying with an equitable emotion(s) you can substitute your emotion(s) with the presented requirement
What is sense memory?
Identifying then stimulating your five senses to identify with a moment, object, or emotion
What is the difference between an objective and a super objective?
Obj: something immediate; a want, something you can complete
Super obj.: overarching goal; an end obj.
What are tactics?
A character’s (or your) strategy to complete their objective
What goals should you have an as actor during the rehearsal and performance stage?
- Never break character on stage
- Blocking needs to be memorized. Write it down during rehearsal.
- Be consistent
- Maintain control
- Be prepared for rehearsals
- All lines need to be memorized accurately
- Don’t present a stereotype
- Rehearse as if it is a performance
- Voices need to be heard in the back row (projection) and be clearly understood (enunciation)
- Move beyond the lines
- Listen
- By making others on stage look better, you look better
Why is a character’s history important?
It builds the context of why we are here in the particular moment.
