scene
class terms
elements of acting
making acting great
improvs
100
beats together creating emotion
What is moment
100
A group which works together connectedly.
What is an ensemble?
100
acting a scene without written dialogue
What is improvisation?
100
volume and projection
What is an important element of the voice?
100
park bench
What is the class favorite?
200
a small section of a scene
What is a beat
200
When you force someone's face away from the audience.
What is upstaging?
200
What, Where, and Who
What are the three elements of an improvisation or a scene?
200
diction
What is an important element of saying things clearly?
200
Emotion party
What is an exercise that creates emotion
300
A play is composed of many or several of these which move the plot along
What are scenes
300
The language of critique
What is what works and what could use some work?
300
The Who
What is the character you are playing, their age, social station, height, weight, internal qualities
300
tonguetwisters
What exercise is designed to improve speech and diction?
300
Where your character's going, where he came from.
What do you have to know to make an improv real?
400
Reacting
What is acting?
400
Commitment
What is giving yourself fully to the exercise?
400
the where
What is the environment and all its sensory details.
400
Believeability
What does committing fully and staying in the exercise create?
400
Cyrano de Bergerac
When did we practice sequential action?
500
The most important thing you must do with your partner.
What is connect?
500
relaxation
What is the purpose of the hypnosis exercise?
500
the character's desire and the action he or she takes to get it.
What is the want?
500
endowment
What is giving sensory properties to something that is not there. (fire, water)
500
Brad and Emily
We used improvs to practice for scenes like this one.
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