Fine tuning your blocking and stage business is best done in
person, but can also be done via Jim viewing your video tapes.
"Choreographing the Joke: Staging Techniques Unique
to the Solo Performer"
STAGE a joke right, and we can double our seconds
of laughter & applause
Then, as a Comic or a Speaker, we can now demand more
money
EXAMPLES: 65 years of video tape--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