The act of practicing for a film, play or TV show.
What is rehearsing?
100
Most standard 2-hour film are divided into this many different acts.
What are three-acts?
100
A category or type of a film, play or television show.
What is a genre?
100
The main story or really what the film, play or TV show is about.
What is plot?
200
The length of a sitcom without any commercials
What is 22 minutes?
200
A short comedic play or piece of humorous writing.
What is a skit?
200
It is introduces the main characters, setting and foreshadows for the next act.
What is Act I also known as the setup?
200
A characteristic or quality that can be seen from the outside.
What is an external trait?
200
A characteristic or quality that cannot be seen from the outside.
What is an internal trait?
300
The possible subject of sitcom.
What is "anything" that makes for a comedic moment.
300
A skit's length.
What is short?
300
This includes the confrontation of the main characters’ conflict. It lasts the longest out of the three acts.
What is Act II?
300
The scenes that tell how the confrontation and conflict are solved usually viewed or read at the end of a script of a TV show, play or film.
What is resolution?
300
A person that is in charge of the actors and crew in the making of a film.
What is a director?
400
The plot of a sitcom usually deals with this type of genre
What is comedy?
400
The company that creates playbills for the famous Broadway Theaters of NYC.
What is the Playbill Company?
400
It contains the resolution of the conflict and confrontation of the main characters’ conflict. It usually is within the last 30 minutes of as standard film.
What is Act III?
400
A play that usually displays an unhappy ending where something terrible happens to the main character usually death.
What is a tragedy?
400
Struggle or problem that is faced by the main characters of a film, play or television show.
What is conflict?
500
Is considered to be one of the first and most successful sitcoms on television* (we watched it together)
What is "I Love Lucy"?
500
The names of the three skits that rehearsed in this class.
What is "Do you have the time?", "Wanna buy a duck", and "Remind Me"
500
The five movie genres that we discussed throughout this class.
What is horror, comedy, action/adventure, and romance?
500
It is a scene that is added that tells the viewers what might happen later in the film, TV show, and play
What is foreshadowing?
500
It informs the audience about the play or musical they will be in attendance at. Usually contains cast bios, intermission, songs and the general plot.