Stage V Screen
Early Acting
The Method
Actors
Misc.
100
These must be over exaggerated on the stage, but more subtle and realistic on screen.
What are gestures?
100
True or False: Studios would often invent new names and backgrounds for their Star System prodogies?
Who is true?
100
The 1954 wnner of best picture that showcased method acting to the world.
What is "On the Waterfront?"
100
The most popular and critically acclaimed actor of the silent screen era; famous for his "Little Tramp" Character.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
100
Must be flexible and loud on stage; microphones allow variety on screen.
What is voice?
200
This is recorded for screen but real on the stage.
What is time?
200
Early Hollywood Studios' process of creating and promoting young talent and exploiting them to the public.
What is the American Star System.
200
The School where most of the early Method Actor's attended.
What is the Actor's Studio of NY?
200
The most famous method actor and star of "On the Waterfront."
Who is Marlon Brando?
200
In early Hollywood, studios saw these as their only garanteed success.
What are movie stars?
300
Hard to cover up on the stage, but easy to deal with when screen acting, just do another take.
What are mistakes?
300
Movie stars are created by this.
What is the public?
300
Method acting is more this than previous acting.
What is realistic?
300
Besides Brando, two other actor's whom attended the famous school for method acting.
Who are James Dean, Paul Newman, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb...
300
Acting style in which actors aim to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of thier characters in an effort to create a life-like performance.
What is method acting?
400
This is great between actor's and the audience on stage, but more intimate on screen.
What is the distance to the audience?
400
The American Star System placed more emphasis on this, rather than actual acting talent.
What is image?
400
Co-founder of The Actor's Studio; director of "On the Waterfront."
Who is Elia Kazan?
400
The 5 jobs that Charlie Chaplin often performed while making movies.
What are the writer, producer, director, actor, and composer.
400
The technique of converying emotions, actions, and feelings by gestures.
What is pantomime?
500
The actor is in control of their performance on stage but this person controls it on screen.
Who is the director?
500
Actors in the American Star System were cast in as many movie roles as possible in the first year of their contract with a studio.
What is maximum exposure?
500
The practice of actors drawing upon their own emotions and memories in their performances.
What is the method?
500
Russian actor and theater director credited with teaching "the System," which laid the foundations for Method Acting.
Who is Constantine Stanislavsky?
500
Method acting is seen as more of this style of acting where previous acting was more of this style.
What are internal and external?
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