Character & Narrative- 7 Essential Acting Concepts Seminar

7 Essential Acting Concepts

1. Thinking leads to movements and emotion
2. Acting is reacting, acting is doing.
3. A character needs to have an objective
4. A character should play an action until something makes them play a different action
5. All action begins with movement
6. Audiences empathize with emotion
7. A scene is a negotiation 

Narrative couldn't be more important in creating a captivating story!

From this i realise how important it is to plan out the characters with emotions when animating as it is key in creating something the audience can believe. I have always used references when creating animation so i can really see the movements and what the character needs to be doing, but i have never thought about the emotion of the person and how it could effect how the audience perceives my character, so i really need to think of this in the future.

I have always wanted to work with actors or dancers for animating so i will try to do this in the future so i can see how they flow and show emotions, which need to come across in the final characters.

I need to watch old movies and skits like Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy as i grew up watching them and i really need to see how they managed to get their emotions and actions across to the public with no words present.