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Quick questions on Acting skills and concepts: SQA Advanced Higher Drama Performance acting option
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What are acting concepts?Show answer
Acting becomes active when the character pursues an objective - a concrete want in the scene - through tactics, against obstacles, driven by an underlying motivation. Status is the relative power between characters, which can shift line by line and which the actor plays through voice and body. Playing an objective and its status makes a scene dynamic; playing a mood makes it static.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the difference between playing an objective and playing an emotion? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name three vocal and three physical skills the actor controls. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
What is subtext, and how does an actor play it? [2 marks]
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