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Facial ExpressionsFacial Expressions

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

Critical & Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking

Personal and Social CapabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

1. Begin the activity by listing different emotions (happy, sad, angry etc) or look up Macmillan's Dictionary: 100 words for facial expression.

100 words

2. If completing the activity as an individual, sit in front of a mirror and practice acting out each facial expressions. Record them using an iPad or mobile.

3. If completing the activity in pairs or groups take turns at giving others an emotion to act out.

Optional Extra: Become a Mime (developed by Wonderopolis)

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.

  

What are you doing?

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

Critical & Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking

Personal and Social CapabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

Mime 1. Create a circle (or if in pairs stand facing each other) and choose one person to start in the centre.

 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

    

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Should 'star voices' be an expected requirement of contemporary animated cinema?

High SchoolSecondary

LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

CriticalAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning Activity

 

 

1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, read the following article from The Conversation 15 July 2014 Reading



Voice Acting

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 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.

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?"

 

 

 

Websites, Games & Apps

New York Film Academy - Acting Apps

High SchoolSecondary
Literacy
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy


NY Apps
Drama for Kids

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle

Critical & Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking

Personal and Social CapabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability



Drama for Kids
Drama Resource: Drama Games

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

Critical & Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking

Personal and Social CapabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability



Drama Resource
Drama Toolkit

PrimaryPrimary MiddleMiddle High SchoolSecondary

Critical & Creative ThinkingAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking

Personal and Social CapabilityAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability



Drama Toolkit

 

 

 

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