Thursday, August 1, 2024

Understand Body Language: Richard Newman 1

I see stage craft really as a craft as a skill that needs to be worked on because you're taking an audience on an emotional right path from the beginning to the end of the experience, there'll be aspects of that that I want to review and work on. One of the pieces that I continuously look at and work on is around the past, present and future use of body language. People are looking at a screen and someone is showing them a graph January is on one side of the screen and December is on the other we will immediately know that January will be on the left of the screen and December will be on the right of the screen. We see time going from past on the left to the future is on the right. I use that in my stagecraft practicing as I tell a story, where do I need to be on the stage in order to make sure that the visual journey I'm creating as the storyteller is going in the right direction. I can start off by talking about the past of something and then skip forward in time to the future and then I can come back and talk about something that's in the past and come back to present day and use the stage around these pieces thinking about where on the stage do I need to be in order to deliver this part in order to make it work for the audience?