Voice
Characterization Skills
Strategies
Areas of the Stage
Theatre Arts and Genre
100

How loud or softly the character is speaking?

Volume

100

How your face communicates how you character is feeling?

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

100

Acting without speaking?

Mime

100

I am standing in the middle of the stage.

CENTRE STAGE

100

The clothes the actor wears on stage?

COSTUME

200

The speed you talk?

PACE

200

The words or sounds your character speaks?

Dialogue  Speech

200

Slowing down your movement, perhaps linking a frozen image or to highlight a moment?

SLOW MOTION

200

I am closer to the audience than the backdrop.

DOWNSTAGE

200

In …………………  the actors move as one group also known as a chorus.

Greek Theatre

300

How clearly you can understand what the character is saying?

CLARITY

300

The way your character stands?

STANCE
300

A frozen picture that communicates a scene or a story?

TABLEAUX

300

I am standing at the back of the stage.

UPSTAGE.

300

Stock characters including Villain, Heroine, Hero can be found in …………….

Melodrama

400

How high or low your character is speaking?

PITCH

400

A single hand or head movement?

GESTURE

400

When we can hear what the character is thinking in a frozen image?

THOUGHT TRACKING

400

I am sitting in the audience watching the actor, I ask them to walk down stage right which hand do I need to point with?

LEFT HAND.

400

………………. is a mimed often comical performance using exaggerated gestures and facial expressions

Silent Movie

500

Changing your voice depending on how the character feels?

TONE OF VOICE.

500

Using your body to show who you are, where you are and how your character is feeling?

BODY LANGUAGE

500

4 skills needed to create an effective Tableaux,?

LEVELS, EXPRESSIONS, GESTURES, USE OF SPACE, BODY LANGUAGE, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, FROZEN, NO SPEECH

500

Name all 9 areas of the stage?

Centre Stage                

Downstage Right              

 Upstage Left           

Centre Right                      

Upstage Right                     

Centre Left              

Downstage Left                         

Downstage Centre            

Upstage Centre

500

This …………. genre is creepy and can be scary using music and sound effects to create atmosphere and build tension.

Horror

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