What is Acting?
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Technology
History
Potpourri
100
Joan Crawford said that a movie actor paints with this kind of brush.
What is the tiniest?
100
The aspect of filmmaking over which directors have the least precise control.
What is acting?
100
This is a major factor in putting shots together, thus helping to create the performance.
What is editing?
100
Invented the art of screen acting.
Who is Lillian Gish?
100
The imaginary, invisible wall that separates the audience from the stage.
What is the fourth wall?
200
For many movie actors, this is the real key to their careers.
What is persona?
200
Each directorial style requires this from actors.
What is something different?
200
A soundproof enclosure designed to keep the camera's sound off of the microphone.
What is a blimp?
200
The top actress during the studio era.
Who is Bette Davis?
200
Delivering lines based only loosely on the written script or without the preparation that comes with studying a script before rehearsing it.
What is improvisation?
300
The process of choosing and hiring actors for movies.
What is casting?
300
The professional association for casting directors
What is the Casting Society of America (CSA)?
300
Because an actor's performance is fragmented, this person has considerable power in shaping it.
Who is the editor?
300
The decade in which strong reactions against the stereotyping of African Americans began.
What is the 1920's?
300
The inciting incident of this film is when the protagonist's mother signs the contract that determines her son's future.
What is CITIZEN KANE?
400
Actors who bear strong physical resemblance to stars and substitute for them during setup times, light readings, etc.
What are stand-ins?
400
The type of director who inspires such confidence that he or she can actively shape an actor's performance.
What is an actors' director?
400
The conversion that was the greatest challenge to early movie actors.
What is from silent to sound?
400
Method acting was based on this actor's theory and practice.
Who is Konstantin Stanislavsky?
400
The component most people use to assess a movie.
What is acting?
500
Bertolt Brecht's theatrical ideas and theory of acting are referred to as this.
What is nonnaturalistic style?
500
The most essential relationship a director has is with this type of cast member.
Who is the actor?
500
The reason for the use of computer-generated technology to replace actors.
What is a fascination with virtual reality?
500
Pioneered ensemble acting in movies.
Who is Orson Welles?
500
Laurence Olivier defined acting as this.
What is "convincing lying"?
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