An exploratory study of one kind of actor auditions at the 1982 Florida Theatre Conference's Fall Auditions. / The purpose of the study is to identify acting variables that have both a positive and a negative impact upon any possible audition score. / The format of the study is as follows. Chapter I provides an introduction to the substance and structure of the investigation. Chapter II surveys the major acting and directing texts and the three best known books on the audition process. Chapter III establishes the investigative procedures. Chapter IV presents the results of the various statistics that were used and presents a M.F.A. association study. Finally, Chapter V synthesizes all of the data to arrive at an estimate of the positive audition variables that were identified. / The study revealed that acting, long thought to be the most important element in an audition, takes on a much smaller percentage then expected. In fact, other variables such as stage presence, actor weight, years of acting experience, dress styles, age of the actor, and time of day make up 71% of the total audition score. This data would seem to indicate some major re-thinking on teaching actors needs to be done. Acting coaches should teach their actors to attack the audition as a unified whole from beginning to end of the complete audition. / Finally, the M.F.A. correlation study reveals that for statistical purposes no significant difference exists between the live audition performance and the video taped audition performance. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-09, Section: A, page: 2696. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75382 |
| Contributors | HERRON, CLIFFORD DALE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 155 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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