Other Compilation Flashcards
List and define the 2 components of “the range of theater’s goals”?
(Hint: The chart we used to rate the movies)
Efficacy- Content you hold in your heart; may change you
Entertainment- Keeping an audience’s attention
What are the 4 Actor’s Tools?
How do you use/express them?
Body: Using a variety of gestures, facial expressions, and postures to bring character to life
Voice: Pitch, Rate, Volume, Quality
Mind: The Ten Questions; Objectives and Obstacles
Heart: Passion and Vulnerability
What are 5 non-verbal tools that an actor uses to establish character?
Hint: Mr. Draper’s creating the character (in class) while the person listed them
Physical Lead: If character is heart-based, lead with heart
Center of Gravity: Low & heavy; Timid & hunched; Light-hearted & buoyant
Facial Expression: Brow, eyes, cheeks, mouth, cheeks
Gestures: Use hands (not at side)
Walk: How you move defines your character
What are the 4 components that create/define a character’s voice
Pitch: High and low
Rate: Fast and slow; rhythm and pace
Volume: LOUD and quiet
Quality: Nasal; Bright; Sharp; Pinched; Harsh; Accent
What are the 4 things NEED to be determined in every great scene?
Character: Physical Life, Emotional Life, Objectives, Empathetic
Relationship: Status Differences, Dynamic
Objective: Meaningful, important, change, vary, grow as plot develops, Main objective
Where: Set in a believable time, place, transform stage
What are the 5 public speaking tools that help make the speaker engaging (and seem like s/he knows what s/he is talking about)
Organized Note-cards allowing for meaningful gestures: Important to free arms to make gestures
Grounded and centered, showing confidence in the subject and in oneself: Eye contact, engage audience
Dynamic, transitional movement (posture, facial expression, gesture): Takes audience from point to point
Dynamic vocal expression (variety in pitch and rhythm, clarity of diction): Be dynamic
Relationship to audience, especially through eye contact
List and explain the structure of a Greek play
Hint: 5 parts
Prologos: Character/chorus and describes exposition (who what where when) & problem
Parados: Side entrances where chorus comes in
Episode: 3 actors establish what’s going on;
Choral Ode: Chorus talks about what happens
*Repeat Episode & Choral Ode 3-6 times; 5 is a good number*
Exodos: Character learns lesson or is dead; something changed
What did Aristotle state are the 6 Elements of Drama?
Plot: Time, Place- happens over 24 hours
Theme: Learning lesson thru flaw of protagonist; idea
Music: Song & dance
Language: Fits culture/society; Lyrical?
Character: Good flaw in protagonist; antagonist-man vs man/fate/society; chorus
Spectacle: Opposite of boring
What is true about all relationships?
(3 things)
They change, are physical, and are based on need
What are the 10 questions?
Who am I?
Where am I?
What time is it?
Who is around me?
What is around me?
What are the given circumstances?
What do I want?
Why do I want it?
Who/what is in my way?
How do I get what I want?
