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