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Facial Expressions
What are you doing?
Should 'star voices' be an expected requirement of
contemporary animated cinema?
'Al
actor' Tilly Norwood is dividing Hollywood - but real acting requires
humanity. Analyse.
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Primary
Middle 
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Personal and
Social Capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
1. Begin the activity by listing different emotions (happy, sad, angry etc)
2. If completing the activity as an individual, sit in front of a mirror and
practice acting out each facial expressions.
3. If completing the activity in pairs or groups take turns at giving others
an emotion to act out.
To start, write a short, simple story that you would like to tell to another
person. When you're finished, read through your story and think about how
you could tell that story without saying a single word. Of course, you may
want to change a few parts after you've given it some thought. When you're
ready, become a mime and tell your story without words! Let your actions
speak. If you're up for a challenge, you can even wear make-up and dress
like a mime!
Or become an Actor instead...
To
extend the activity along with acting each emotion through facial
expressions try adding sounds or a sentence to match your emotion.
Primary
Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Personal and
Social Capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
2.
The student in the centre acts something out, without talking (for example
washing dishes or pushing an object)
3.
Taking turns a student walks over to the student in the middle and asks
“What are you doing?”
4.
The student answers with something they aren’t doing. For example: if the
student in the centre is washing the dishes, they
could answer “I'm walking my dog” or “I’m driving
my car.”
5.
That student then acts out what the other student said they were
doing.
6. Continue taking turns - remember you cannot repeat actions
Should 'star voices' be an expected requirement of
contemporary animated cinema?
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups of 4 - 5 students,
read the following article from
The Conversation 15 July 2014
"The release of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2 has once
again brought into relief the fact that animated feature films now
regularly attract a host of Hollywood stars and high-profile
performers to the medium. The presence of a “star voice” is an
expected requirement of contemporary animated cinema.
But what happens to voice pros who have none of that pulling power?
With a cast that includes Academy Award-winning actress Cate
Blanchett, alongside Hollywood star Gerard Butler, comedian Jonah
Hill and Ugly Betty herself, America Ferrara, How to Train Your
Dragon 2 regularly invites audiences to play a game of deciphering
and decoding (“that sounds like”, “that could be”) each time one of
its animated characters opens their mouth.
The idea of a star voice has undoubtedly come to function as an
integral and much-anticipated performance element in both the
construction and interpretation of animated acting. The spectators’
immediate familiarity with a star’s potent voice makes said stars as
ideal candidates for animated voiceover."
2. You are to get ready to debate the issue: "Should 'star voices' be an expected requirement of contemporary animated cinema?"
Divide the
class into two. One half is to take the affirmative and the other half the
negative.
Collect all the ideas for each opinion.
What is your opinion? Each person in the "half" is to contribute at
least one idea.
Compile &Collate
the ideas and summarise into 9 ideas (three ideas for each member of the
debating team).
3. Debate the question:
"Should 'star voices' be an expected requirement of contemporary animated cinema?"
'Al
actor' Tilly Norwood is dividing Hollywood - but real acting requires
humanity. Analyse.
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. Form groups of 3 - 5 students.
2. Read the following together as a group.
The Conversation 3 October 2025
3. Write down all the words that you haven't come across before and look up their meaning. Put these words into a new sentence (without looking up AI to do it for you!)
4. Analyse
a. Concerns
b. The uniqueness of human creativity
Within your group, discuss what you think of AI and Actors.
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