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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...