L4 Character Performance and Believability

7 Essential Acting Concepts

• Thinking tends to lead to conclusions

• Emotion leads to action

7 Essential Acting Concepts

• Acting is reacting. Acting is doing

• Every action has a reaction & every reaction has a action

7 Essential Acting Concepts

• Character needs an objective

7 Essential Acting Concepts

• Character should play and action until something happens to make him play a different action

• All action begins with movement

• Empathy

• Audience empathise with emotion

• A scene is a negotiation

• - Conflict is essential

• - Conflict with another character

• - Conflict with himself (moral issues)

• - Conflict with the situation

Theatrical RealityRegular Reality

• Observe how people act on a daily basis

• Observe how actors play on screen

• In animation, you would need to emphasise an action through gestures

Action Defines the Character

• How does his action portrays personality?

• How would the character act if he is nervous? proud? happy? sad?

• Keep an RVJ.

• Collect visual references incl. drawing for character design, evaluate designs and acting

• Act! in front of the camera

• Planning storyboard