Behind The Scenes Flashcards
Audition
Trying out for a role
Perform a monologue and maybe a song or chemistry read
Agent
An actors representative
Blocking
Looking at where the actors need to stand in a scene
Call
When actors must show up for filming and/performing
Callback
They have you come back because they liked you the first time
Headshots
Pictures brought to an audition by the actor of the actor
A range of your ability to look different ways
Monologue
Taken to an audition to show ability
Some times two contrasting monologues are taken to show range
Cross
Written as X
(Blocking)
Walk across
To cross
Downstage
Toward camera or audience
Because the first stages were tilted
Upstage
Back of the stage
Away from the camera
(Because the first stages were tilted)
Stage left
From the actors prospective
Inside the fourth wall
Mark
Exactly where you stand on a stage
Cheating
Turn from actor and toward audience - open out to audience
First posisition
Where the actors start a scene