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Summary: Learn what sounds the victim makes in stage combat during a play performance in this free professional acting video from our professional actor.
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Robert Selander Robert Selander is a professional actor both on stage and screen. He teaches techniques for performers on stage combat. read more
Alright, so we went over the attacker nap, now we're going to go over the attackee nap. What the attackee nap is is when the attackee makes the slapping sound, or the punching sound, or whatever sound is associated with whatever kind of hit they're going to get. So, what is going to happen here is we're going to set up the same way we did before except this time Shaun is going to hit me, he's going to be the attacker and I'm going to be the attackee. So what's going to happen is Shaun's going to establish distance with me, make eye contact, then he's going to wind up and do the slap like that except when his hand crosses and remember a little further away, so when his hand crosses across my face, instead of him making the nap what I'm going to do is I'm going to make the slap with my hand real low and then my hand is going to come up and react like I've just got slapped in the face. So real slow, remember when you're doing this always remember quarter speed and then work yourself up to 75 and you never need to go full speed because the audience is going to miss it anyways. So, real quick, remember real slow; eye contact, wind up, awww there you go. So when he slapped me...awww. One more time a little faster....awww he hit me! That's the attackee nap, remember practice, practice, practice and no one needs to know what you're doing before you do it.