Question: How do you breathe life into a story?
Answer: Characters
Question: How do you make your characters feel real?
Answer: Through subtle differences in voice, posture, positioning, expressions and dialogue.
Here is your video lesson on using characters to connect deeper and laugh harder with your audience.
My Update Since Creating This Video
Nowadays I actually have my characters look less at the audience and more at each other until I get to my Foundational Phrase and look out at my audience. I’ve improved my staging. There’s always room to improve on how we use posture, positioning, voice, etc.
Your Turn
How do you bring your characters to life? What tools do you use? What works for you?
Hello Craig, great insight my friend. What I do is pause and emotionally get into some characters feelings. I take on the facial and body expressions before I say anything next. When I get it right you can hear the audience connect to me.