Performance Retrieval

What two areas do we consider when analysing character performance?

• Character appearance and costume design.
• Character backstory and setting.
• Body and vocal delivery

• Character popularity and audience reception.

Which analysts devised the list of 9 body codes?

• Hinde and Fiske

• Barthes and Strauss

• Dodsworth and Naisbett

• Hound and Butler

What are the 9 body codes?

• Proxemics

  Kinesics

  Orientation

  Head movement

  Facial expressions

  Eye movement

  Posture

  leg movement

  make up

• Proxemics

  Kinesics

  Orientation

  Head movement

  Facial expressions

  Eye movement

  Posture

  Direct body contact

  General appearance

• Orientation

  Head movement

  Facial expressions

  Eye movement

  Posture

  Direct body contact

  General appearance

  Clothing

  Personality

Moving across acting space and arriving a set point is called?

• Choreographed movement

• Hitting the space

• Hitting your mark

• Arriving at the spot

What is blocking ?

• Blocking is the arrangement of performers in a scene to enhance storytelling and audience engagement.
• Blocking refers to the process of rehearsing lines in a play.

What do we consider when analysing vocal delivery?

• Rhythm, harmony, melody
• Tone, pitch, volume, pace, clarity, accent and speech errors.

• Lyrics, genre, tempo
• Audience size, venue acoustics