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
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