June exam 2021

Question 1

What is preforming arts?

Answer 1

Using the artists own body, face and presence as a medium to which a meaning is inferred

Question 2

What is dramatic arts?

Answer 2

The art of writing a producing plays

Question 3

Why is warming up Important?

Answer 3

1) It makes you less tense on stage
2) It increases your energy
3) It helps you prepare and focus on your performance

Question 4

What four steps should be done when warming up you body?

Answer 4

Loosen up your spine
Loosen up your joints
Stretch all your muscles
Assess your posture

Question 5

Why do we do breathing exercises?

Answer 5

We do breathing exercises so that our lungs can be filled to maximum capacity. It helps us project our voices and helps we don’t strain our vocal cords

Question 6

How do you do breathing exercises?

Answer 6

First breath into your cavities
Then locate and strengthen your diaphragm, engage your resonators
Breath control

Question 7

What is vertebra?

Answer 7

Vertebrae are 33 individual, interlocking bones that form the spinal cord

Question 8

What is alignment?

Answer 8

Arrangement in a straight line or in correct relative positions

Question 9

What is neutral?

Answer 9

A manner of maintaining ones body at a workstation in a relaxed position so that the joints are aligned, minimizing stress on the tendons, muscles and skeletal system

Question 10

What is a way to loosen up your spine?

Answer 10

The spine roll

Question 11

How do you loosen up the neck?

Answer 11

Drop your head forward so that your chin touches your chest. Then drop your head to the right. Then look up with your head, dropping it back and then to your left

Question 12

What shouldn’t you do when loosening up your neck?

Answer 12

Don’t twirl your neck around, trying to roll your head 360 degrees. This causes harm and does not reduce tension

Question 13

How do you loosen your shoulders?

Answer 13

The shoulder roll. Roll both your shoulders forward. Roll your shoulders back. Make swimming gestures

Question 14

How do you loosen your hips?

Answer 14

You can do squats and do hula hooping

Question 15

How do you loosen your knees?

Answer 15

Lie on your stomach, with your one hand in front of you. Pull your knee backwards, by pushing your toes down. Pull your foot down as much as you can.

Question 16

How do you loosen your ankles?

Answer 16

Twirl your feet in two directions

Question 17

How do you loosen your feet and toes?

Answer 17

Wiggle your toes

Question 18

What muscles do you stretch?

Answer 18

Thigh, calve, arm and side torso muscle

Question 19

How do you asses your posture?

Answer 19

Walk in neutral. Be aware of your alignment and center yourself. Stand in neutral stance

Question 20

What is a cavities?

Answer 20

An abnormal, thick-walled, air filled space within the lung

Question 21

What is the diaphragm?

Answer 21

Located below the lungs, it is a major muscle of respiration. It is a large, dome shaped muscle that contracts rhythmically and continually, and most of the time, involuntarily

Question 22

What is a resonator?

Answer 22

The part of the body that can vibrate in harmony with the voice

Question 23

How do you breath in the cavities?

Answer 23

By breathing into the torso stretch

Question 24

How do you locate and strengthen your diaphragm?

Answer 24

Get on your hands and knees. Locate the diaphragm by panting. Once you have located the muscle, go back onto your haunches and the stand up slowly while doing the sound. You will need to be patient with yourself as your muscle may be very weak and may take many sessions to develop

While standing are the sound sssssss as you inhale and fffff as you expel air

Question 25

How do you engage your resonators

Answer 25

Big sighs: Feel the resonators (If done with slight sound Painting: Work from high to low in natural register (If done with slight sound)

Question 26

How do you do breath control?

Answer 26

Measure your breath on a specific count, Initially start at 4 and over time increase your counts. So breathe in for four, hold for four and out for four. Breath in on one count, hold for one count and breath out slowly measure your count until you run out of breath

Question 27

Why do we do voice exercises?

Answer 27

To Keep the muscles stretched so we don't strain muscles

Question 28

How do we do voice exercises for facial muscles?

Answer 28

Stretch like raisin face face, blow fish, long distance kiss Tongue like ice cream, peanut butter licking Jaw like jaw drop lips like horse sound, popping sound and beat boxing

Question 29

How do we exercise our resonators?

Answer 29

Hum gently within the natural register low to high

Question 30

What is head resonance?

Answer 30

Head resonance should not be confused with head register or falsetto. It is used primarily for softer singing in either register throughout the range.

Question 31

What is mouth resonance?

Answer 31

Mouth resonance is used for a conversational vocal color in singing and, in combination with nasal resonance, it creates forward placement or mask resonance.

Question 32

What is chess resonance?

Answer 32

Chest resonance adds richer, darker, and deeper tone coloring for a sense of power, warmth, and sensuality. It creates a feeling of depth and drama in the voice.

Question 33

What is nasal/mask resonance?

Answer 33

Nasal (mask resonance) is present at all times in a well-produced tone, except perhaps in pure head tone or at very soft volume. Nasal resonance is bright and edgy and is used in combination with mouth resonance to create forward placement (mask resonance). In an over-all sense, it adds overtones that give clarity and projection to the voice.

Question 34

What should you enunciate?

Answer 34

Vowels and scales

Question 35

What should you articulation?

Answer 35

The Letter P The Letter B Blue leather Red lorry

Question 36

Why do we do focus exercises?

Answer 36

To help us concentrate, especially in group projects

Question 37

What are some focus exercises we can do?

Answer 37

This is a... Hand circle Mirror

Question 38

What can be said with the following statement? "Body is an instrument"

Answer 38

Know your body Take note: How are you in performance and in reality Keep a diary

Question 39

What should you monitor about your attitude?

Answer 39

``` You attitude towards others Your attitude towards yourself Your attitude towards the character Your attitude towards the situation Your attitude towards the props ```

Question 40

What is improvising?

Answer 40

A type of theatre in which performers use improvisational acting techniques to preform spontaneously

Question 41

How long has improvisation been around for?

Answer 41

It has been around since the 1500s

Question 42

When did improvisation gain popularity?

Answer 42

It gained popularity in the 1950s

Question 43

Who made improve so popular?

Answer 43

An American dramatist named Viola Spolin

Question 44

What did Viola Spolin do to make improve so popular?

Answer 44

She developed a number of useful exercises for performers to use in order to develop

Question 45

What is the 4 points of improve?

Answer 45

Be spontaneous Be truthful Have heightened awareness Be responsive

Question 46

What is Spolin known as?

Answer 46

The American grandmother of improv

Question 47

What does it mean to be spontaneous?

Answer 47

Occurs without premeditation or external stimulus. Having a natural, uninhibited Manner

Question 48

What does it mean to have a reaction?

Answer 48

Response to another event

Question 49

What does reaction mean?

Answer 49

The actor is asked to work instantly with what they have at their disposal at the time

Question 50

What is re-acting?

Answer 50

The skill the actor exercises in improvisational exercises is of reacting not acting

Question 51

What is heightened awareness?

Answer 51

When a person is in a state of being more knowledgeable or conscious of something

Question 52

What are residential props?

Answer 52

The props used to represent something which they are not. They are used to create an illusion of something that is not there

Question 53

How does the viewer understand the props?

Answer 53

The viewer makes use of the information provided to interpret meaning The performer presents a truthful reaction, a believable reaction that is why the viewers understands

Question 54

Why is improvisation important in performance?

Answer 54

Improvisers typically use audience suggestions to guide the performance as they create dialogue, setting and plot right in front of the audiences’ eyes. Audiences enjoy the opportunity to mavel at the skill of an actor able to re-create a believable situation from almost nothing. - Most improvisation performances tend to be comedic. If the show is comic, the audience enjoy the ability of the actor to make the situation funny.

Question 55

What does improv teach the actor?

Answer 55

It teaches discipline of focus and encourages creativity and thinking on your toes. It helps to deal with unplanned situations in a performance; such as when another actor forgets a line and you have to cover up the mistake

Question 56

What does improv help with?

Answer 56

It helps the actor understand the situation that the character is placed in

Question 57

Why is improvisation important in development?

Answer 57

Some play writes get actors to improvise scenes to get a sense of how to write the natural dialogue Watching the actors resolve the situations they are placed in, gives the writer a sense of how to develop the characters

Question 58

How is development in improv an inclusive approach?

Answer 58

The process works on participants engage with equality. Previous knowledge is not more important than heightened awareness. The participant must engage from their experience It is a process open to all actors of all training levels The outcome will be the result of the input of many voices and perspectives as many actors provide their interpretation to the writer