Performance

Question 1

What is performance in FS?

Answer 1

Discussing and critically judging a performance for its intended meaning based on what is happening in the frame and how it is directed and choreographed.

Question 2

What is performance NOT?

Answer 2

It is not a judgement of the actors quality.

Question 3

What are Argyle’s Body Codes (1972)? [give at least 5]

Answer 3

• Direct Bodily Contact
• Proximity of one character for another
• The orientation of one to another
• General appearance
• Head movement
• Facial expressions
• Gestures (or kinesics)
• Body posture
• Eye movements
• Aspects of Speech

Question 4

What is the improvisation approach?

Answer 4

A performance where most, if not all, of a scene is unplanned and is related by the performer

Question 5

What is the method approach?

Answer 5

A range of training and rehearsal techniques that encourage sincere and emotionally expressive performances

Question 6

What is Blocking?

Answer 6

How characters move through a scene / interact with their environment

Question 7

What is staging?

Answer 7

Camera placement / relationship of movement with blocking

Question 8

What is subtext?

Answer 8

The implied meaning of a character’s actions