Jim Richardson's
Lessons 26-29
Choreographing the Joke:
Staging Techniques Unique to the
Solo Performer
Fine tuning your blocking and stage business is best done in person, but can
also be done via Jim viewing your videos and through video conferencing through
your webcam over the Internet.
STAGE a joke right, and we can double your seconds
of laughter & applause
Then, as a Comic or a Speaker, you can now demand more
money
EXAMPLES: 65 years of video--top professionals prove
what works
- Why we always have at least 2 choices
- Capitalize on "specific" movements that make us look
stronger
- Know when you should move: before, during or after each of
your sentences
- Learn how sculptured movements can cement word memorization
- Use your eyes to bring your constantly changing "stage
pictures" into focus
- How to keep your feet from shifting and what to do with your
hands
- When to be motionless
- Controlling our anxiety by marrying movement, character and
dialogue
- Crossing the stage with confidence and purpose
On stage, the correct way to:
Stand, sit, turn, handle props, make gestures,
etc.
- Movement that telegraphs to the audience when to laugh: on cue
- How to "bring the curtain down" to greater applause
- Add funny movement patterns that have worked throughout history
- Timing: real time, psychological time and stage time
- “Point up” your important words by suddenly appearing
BIGGER
EXERCISES: staging that compels your audience's emotional
reactions
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