Barr

Please answer the following questions with an eye toward what Barr explicitly says in Acting for the Camera. The purpose of this examination is to demonstrate that you have read the required text for this course. Do not bring in other sources or information � even if it is true enough! Answer based on what Barr says. Please type your answers: 12 point New Times Roman font with 1&1/2 line spacing.

Part One. Define what Barr means by the following terms as precisely and concisely as possible. Ideally, you can define each term in 2-3 carefully worded sentences: in one offer a definition of the term and in the second state its importance or significance. Each definition is worth 2% of the total points on this exam and this section is worth 30%.

1. Facts and Conditions: Determine where you are at any given moment emotionally, intellectually, sensor ally, and physically. You understand and utilze the facts and conditions that the author has laid out.

2. Stimuli: Stimuli are the reason why you choose to care about what is happening as much as you logically can within the context of the material, unless the material demands that you not care.

3. Acting: Acting is responding to stimuli, in imaginary circumstances in an imaginative, dynamic manner that is at is stylistically true to time and place, so as to communicate ideas and emotions to an audience.

4. Physicalization: Physicalization refers to anything however subtle, that an audience can detect. From throwing a chair across the room to a slight movement of the eyes.

5. Listening: Listening involves the responses of all your senses. Most importantly it involves what you perceive intuitively and emotionally and what you have experienced and perceived in the past.

6. Focus and Concentration: Refer to where, and how intensely, you direct your entire instrument. You cannot be affected or responsive when you are giving only part of your attention to the major stimuli being directed at you.

7. Transition: The process of going from one character to another, actor to actor.

8. Bottom Line: That which is driving the scene, what the scene is about in terms of what you need to accomplish.

9. Energy: Energy is the direct result of how much you care about what is happening. Unless the material demands that you not care, always choose to care about what is happening as much as you can logically can within the context of the material.

10. Reshaped Self: Is disregarding the parts of you that are not congruent with the role and using the parts that are.

11. Selectivity: Being in a scene and having the ability to make a selection while in the scene, doing what was not expected or planned.

12. Spontaneity: Believing as the role demands, feeling as the role demands and sensitive to stimuli as the role demands, not as you personally might respond.

13. Rhythm: The pace of the scene, whether it is fast or slow or moderate. The rhythm must be compatible.

14. Emotion: Must be based on some degree where the actor has some personal experience of real emotion. It should affect you all the way down to your toes.

15. Dynamics: Means change, where there is a change from the beginning of the story to the end. Change constitutes dynamics, dynamics gives us drama.

Part Two. Circle the correct answer. Each of the following twenty multiple-choice questions is worth 2% for a total of 20%.

16. According to Barr, the actor�s primary function is to�

a.) �listen to the stimuli provided by the other actors.

b.) �communicate ideas and emotions to an audience.

c.) �find the bottom line in each scene.

d.) �all of the above.

e.) �none of the above.

17. Whereas in the theatre the actor must work across artificial space to the back row, Barr says that in front of the camera you must�

a.) �work toward a genuine experience, which you can sense through imagination and personalization.

b.) �aim your performance to the camera lens, which is the cinematic audience.

c.) �work across real space and need only reach the other actor.

d.) �all of the above.

e.) �none of the above.

18. Barr says the all-important aspect of an actor�s work is�

a.) �listening.

b.) �preparation.

c.) �energy.

d.) �all of the above.

e.) �none of the above.

19. According to Barr, as a general rule, which of the following two things are the same?

a.) The visual focus of the actor and the emotion focus of the character.

b.) The experience of emotion by the actor and believability by the audience.

c.) Professionalism and preparation.

d.) All of the above.

e.) None of the above.

20. The bridge between stimulus and response is�

a.) �the time it takes the actor to hear and absorb the stimulus.

b.) �the time it takes the actor to allow the stimulus to act on him or her.

c.) �the time it takes the actor to respond to the stimulus.

d.) �all of the above.

e.) �none of the above.

21. According to Barr, the value of improvisation in rehearsal

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