Body Language
Movement and interaction between 2 characters is known as body language. The body language between 2 is designed to send information back to the audience about their relationship.
If actors cannot pull this off then it usually affects the quality of the final film. You might hear a critic saying that there is no chemistry between the main characters.
There are 10 body codes:
Task:
Performance & Movement in Seven.
Watch the following scene several times and note down the following:
If actors cannot pull this off then it usually affects the quality of the final film. You might hear a critic saying that there is no chemistry between the main characters.
There are 10 body codes:
- Direct bodily contact
- Proximity of one character to another
- Orientation of characters (are they facing each other?)
- Appearance of characters
- Head movements
- Facial expressions
- Gestures
- Body Posture
- Eye movement or contact
- Aspects of speech (pitch, stress, tone, volume, accent, speech errors)
Task:
Performance & Movement in Seven.
Watch the following scene several times and note down the following:
- the different ways in which the actors bodies are orientated in relation to each other
- the body postures adopted by both
- the facial expressions used by the actors
- any changes in speech patterns they employ
- the timing required for the delivery of the line