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The audience is looking for an extraordinary moment, not the ordinary moment.

The purpose of the movement is the destination.

The externals are what animators are concerned with, BUT externals are a result of the internal.

Working with short takes to convert the motivation from WANT to NEED.

Try to keep dignity in embarrassing moments. There are three kinds of conflict, conflict with self, with a situation and other characters. Obstacles are essential to acting and imply a negotiation.

What is being negotiated? A weak scene is one that is just there to describe what is going on. The actor/audience “contract” is the key to all performing arts. You will notice how the character is always in the present moment, NEVER giving away the next thing that happens, reacting to what is happening at that very time. DO NOT get to the end of the scene until you are there. Lee Strausberg method of acting: Make a fruit salad…one step at a time! You must have every single though –“in the moment”. Rule of Acting: Play an action until something happens to make you play a different action. The best acting allows “windows” into the character. (2) Follow the emotional impulse to the next action. (1) Play the action (acting is doing something), allowing the resulting emotion to stimulate him and… Actors, by contrast, learn specifically not to focus on these things because they are “results.” You can not act results.Īn actor essentially takes two steps in performance: The paradox for animators: Animators focus on externals in characterization and caricature - facial expressions, body movement, emotional reaction, etc. The Actor’s job is to LEAD the audience.Īn animator must re-motivate a scene over and over, sometimes for weeks. “In order to be funny, you have to touch somebody’s heart.” ~ Ed Hooks.Walt Disney had it right: “The mind is the pilot.” Emotion is a result of thinking movement is a result of thinking All physical action is a result of thinking.Theater’s roots - and, by inclusion, animation’s roots - are ancient.Peter Brook said, “Before movies, and television, there was a stage.“Acting begins with a tiny inner movement so slight that it is almost completely invisible.” ~ The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate By Peter Brook.“The soul desires to dwell with the body because without the members of the body it can neither act nor feel.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci.When he asked the psychiatrist how many emotions can “go off” at once, the Psychiatrist replied “all of them…it’s called shock.” soul, life >Definition of Emotion: “Automatic Value Response” he got this from a psychiatrist.

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