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Summary: Learning body gestures of characters will help a humorous interpretation. Get tips on body movements for a humorous interpretation from a communications and public speaking expert in this free instructional video.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Humorous Interpretation: Gesture Development

Ok we are working on developing our characteristics of our character for humorous. We've already established what we are going to do with the voices now we need to take a look at body. Now when we're picking the characteristics of the body we're not necessarily talking about maybe they slump over that would be very difficult to transition back and forth to. You only have certain placements that you're going to place your characters, but you want to place each one of them differently. When I'm this character I'm looking over here and when I'm this character I'm looking over here. Alright so you're going to place them in different places but you're always going to go back to that same place. So what can we do with our bodies that will help differentiate the different characters. Well first we can take a look at gestures, maybe one of them holds a drink, or maybe one of them holds a cigarette, or maybe one of them rubs and fidgets their hands. Or maybe one of them puts their hair behind their ears but come up with different physical gestures that you can identify with each character. But you must remain consistent and keep those gestures with those work with your face, what does the face of a certain character look like. Are they maybe kind they of look up or are they maybe really big eyes. What is it that you can do with your face to separate the different characters. So you have established those voices, established those mannerisms and now we're ready to look at the dialog and that's going to be the whole big part of our humorous interp is our dialog, and I'm going to talk about that next.

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