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Physical Acting Skills Guide

This document discusses various physical acting skills including body language, facial expressions, gestures, posture, eye contact, walk, control, timing, interaction, space and levels. It explains that these skills can reveal a character's feelings, personality, wants, and status both explicitly through movements and positions as well as implicitly through hidden clues and subtext. Mastering physical acting skills allows an actor to appear coordinated, committed, and believable while interacting convincingly with other characters.

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Physical Acting Skills Guide

This document discusses various physical acting skills including body language, facial expressions, gestures, posture, eye contact, walk, control, timing, interaction, space and levels. It explains that these skills can reveal a character's feelings, personality, wants, and status both explicitly through movements and positions as well as implicitly through hidden clues and subtext. Mastering physical acting skills allows an actor to appear coordinated, committed, and believable while interacting convincingly with other characters.

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B~BODY LANGUAGE---- The body movements and positions. Can be open or closed.

Gives us hidden clues to how the character is feeling.

F~FACIAL EXPRESSION---- The way the mouth, eyebrows, eyes, cheeks, jaw are
positioned. 6 main types: disgust, surprise, sad, happy, anger, fear. Can show subtext: the
character’s hidden feelings.

G~GESTURE---- Shoulder, arm, finger movements. Shows what a character wants, how
they feel or their personality, eg strong and sharp gestures may show an aggressive
character.

P~POSTURE---- How a person holds their body while sitting or standing. The position of
the spine, legs and shoulders. Can show status and emotions.

E~EYE CONTACT---- How a person looks around them. Do they tend to look directly
at people? How long do they hold it? Eye contact can create connections between
characters

W~WALK---- how they walk. Is it smooth, controlled or uneven? What is the pace
(speed) of the walk? Short or long steps?

This image shows body

language, gesture and posture.

PHYSICAL ACTING SKILLS INCLUDE;

CONTROL~ Movement is coordinated, fluent, balanced and clear. The actor is committed and
believable. Stillness is controlled.

TIMING~ The speed and change of movements is perfect: it matches the character’s emotions
and the plot.

INTERACTION~ Physical skills build convincing relationships between characters on


stage/audience.

SPACE AND LEVELS~ The actor moves close/far away to show how they feel to other
characters. High, medium and low levels show different statuses.

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