The Audition Process & Basic Acting Skills

1. The Audition Process&Basic Acting Skills

2. Audition Vocab AUDITION: • similar to a job interview • actors are able to demonstrate their talents • an opportunity for actors to meet the person hiring (director) and to leave memorable impressions of themselves

3. COLD READING: - Auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition CAST: - the group of actors who take the roles in a play (noun) - to be chosen to play a specific role in a play (verb)

4. MONOLOGUE: • an actor performs a work (like a story or speech) alone on stage to demonstrate his/her talents to the director IMPROV: • to speak, or act, w/o a script, given a situation

5. Other Reminders for Audition Preparation… • Know when and where the audition will be held • Do not perform something from the show

6. Audition Etiquette • You are auditioning from the moment you walk in the door!

7. More Etiquette… • Arrive early. • Come prepared. • Bring pen and pencil. • Be polite. • Follow directions.

8. Still More Etiquette… • No gum, candy, cough drops, etc. • Dress appropriately. • Pick up after yourself. • Don’t disappear. • Leave when you’re excused. • Check postings.

9. Basic Acting Skills

10. STAGE DIRECTIONS • The physical division of the stage • Positions on stage taken from the actor’s point of view

11. STAGE DIRECTIONS UL UR UC CL CR CS DR DC DL Audience

12. BODY POSITIONS • The way the actor is facing in relation to the audience

13. BODY POSITIONS Full Back 3/4 Right 3/4 Left Stage Profile Left Profile Right 1/4 Left 1/4 Right Full Front Audience Audience

14. Other Stage Movement Terms BLOCKING: - planned movement on stage CROSS: - movement from one position on stage to another

15. OPEN: - Face and front of the body are kept visible to the audience (as much as possible) CHEAT OUT: - To open yourself to the audience

16. GESTURES - An expressive movement of the body or limbs - Use upstage appendage to remain open

17. Break a leg!

19. The Audition Process&Basic Acting Skills

20. Audition Vocab • Audition • an opportunity similar to a ________ ______________ • actors are able to demonstrate their talents • an opportunity for actors to meet the person hiring (______) and to leave memorable impressions of themselves

21. Cold Reading - _________________________ _________________________ • Cast - _________________________ ______________________ (noun) - _________________________ ____________________(verb)

22. Monologue • an actor performs a work (like a story or speech) ________ on stage to demonstrate his/her talents to the director • Improv • ____________________________________

23. Other Reminders for Audition Preparation…

24. Audition Etiquette

25. More Etiquette… • Arrive _________. • _______________. • Bring ___ and _____. • Be ____________. • Follow __________.

26. Still More Etiquette… • No _____, candy, ___________, etc. • Dress ___________________. • _________________________. • Don’t ______________. • Leave ______________________. • Check _______________.

27. Basic Acting Skills

28. Stage Directions • the _________ ____________ of the stage • positions on stage taken from the _________ point of view

29. Stage Directions Audience

30. Body Positions • the way the • ___________in relation to ___________

31. Body Positions Stage Audience Audience

32. Other Stage Movement Terms • Blocking - ______________ ______________ • ________ - movement from one position on stage to another

33. Open- - _____________________ _____________________ _____________________ • _________ - To open yourself to the audience

34. Gestures - _____________ _____________ _____________ - Use __________ appendage to remain open

35. Break a leg!