hi welcome to this acting class I am so
excited you're here acting is an amazing
experience it's an opportunity to learn
more about yourself
and also about other people and other
personality types now in this course
we're gonna do expressions and explore
body language and our voice and it's
gonna be great so let's get started on
our first class we're gonna talk about
expressions the expressions that we put
on our face and we're gonna start with
the warm up so I want to take your face
and make it really big and now squish it
really small you're really big and small
and we're doing these so we can loosen
up our face and get our faces ready to
make new expressions or move our faces
maybe and waves you don't usually so
let's keep going big smile big smile and
now let's do our jaw right and left
right now start chewing really big until
your nose gets into it choo choo okay
good
now let's do our eyes right left right
left okay no eyebrows up and down up and
down up and down up and down anything
else you can think of okay great so
there are universal expressions that
everybody makes and around the world
it's the same thing goes on in your face
I could go anywhere in the world and
look at people's faces and let you know
what what they're feeling even if I
couldn't understand the words so let's
start learning them now if you have a
mirror that could be really helpful like
I'm gonna get a mirror so you can look
in the mirror so we can analyze a little
easier the expressions going on and you
can really see what you're doing hi okay
good let's start with happy so now
you're probably thinking I know how to
make a happy face I smile for the camera
I say cheese but now I want to think in
detail exactly what's going on with
happy maybe notice a little
all details that we would have
overlooked or not really thought about
so think of something happy and get a
good smile on your face so what's the
first thing you notice when happy this
smile the smile the lips are up and the
cheeks are up and it's nice a lot of
positive energy coming out now something
that you might not have noticed with the
smiling is that a true smile has
wrinkles around the eye look at me see
that's going around the eye when someone
is really happy they have the wrinkles
around the eye and when people are very
happy they usually show their teeth but
not everybody there are some personality
types that don't show teeth when they
smile but they still have the wrinkling
around their eyes okay so I want you to
practice your smile think of something
happy and feel like crinkling around
your eyes if you saw me from here up you
would still know that I'm smiling
because you would know it from my eyes
and now let's try a few lines you bought
me a chocolate bar you're the best mom
ok can you think of some lines and let's
try mine you're the best mom ever you're
the best mom ever
good sometimes people say when they're
really happy their cheeks even start to
hurt because those muscles are so up and
out ok great so close to smile is
laughing laughing is just even more of a
smile when you start to laugh the lip
goes higher the teeth are very exposed
and you even start to see the gum line
so let's get ourselves laughing get your
belly moving ok start look at yourself
into it see see my gum line there and
the mouth opens up for the teeth are
very exposed okay so that's laughing now
we're gonna move on to something more
serious
now we are going to do content now
content is when you do not like someone
you do not have respect for them in
contempt has something very unusual the
other expressions don't have in which
that it's asymmetrical meaning only one
sided you pull the lip out to the side
do you got that can you move your lip to
the side and that comes along with like
now discussed as close to contempt
disgust but you start raising both lips
and then nose crinkles can you give me a
few us up okay so let's try some lines
of that contempt is that one-sided no
respect don't like them you really think
you can do that disgust is like you're
eating that you're eating dog food oh
good can you try that try it with me
again contempt to the side you're really
gonna do that and disgust you're eating
dog food okay good
now I want to pause a second after these
few expressions and I want to think
talked a little bit about it now
sometimes awaken expressions and we
don't realize it so you might have
contempt or dislike for somebody and you
might be doing that sideways thing now
you may not mean to but if you have your
mouth to the side you are putting out
the message that you don't like someone
so start to be aware we can actually use
this in our real life that if you don't
want someone to know that you know like
the hub then you can't be using that
expression good but so let's do more
expressions this one's really intense
we're gonna do anger okay what's anger
eyebrows down think of something angry
I'm so mad
eyebrows down is number one number two
is the lips are tight tightened pursed
and number three is that there's a glare
in the eyes clean up your room I am so
mad at you for taking my shirt get mad
I want to see Matt hurt those lips get
those eyebrows down glare at me I want
to see it how dare you do that
are you mad okay good it's tiring being
mad check that out so another expression
we have that uses eyebrows is concerned
but this time the eyebrows are slanted
and instead of the lips being pursed
they're relaxed and slightly open so
let's look at a concern look are you
okay
see how my eyebrows slant that way and
my lips a little bit open is everything
all right do you need help so let me see
some concern or what happened to that
bird I'm concerned let me see a
concerned expression is everything okay
okay good the next expression is super
fun and it is surprised what did you say
oh my goodness how much did it cost
now we're surprised we have three things
we have big eyes open oh and we have our
eyebrows up and we have a mouth open oh
my goodness I can't believe it let's see
you do surprise let's see it ah can you
believe it okay good no surprise is not
an expression that you hold you don't
hold surprise a long time oh you have to
go into a new thing so let's try
surprise transferring to a different
expression ah you won the lottery
I went from surprise too happy or how
about oh you took my shirt it's huh
surprised and now I am very angry at you
okay so that's some of the things they
can do is surprised
so our next emotion is fear and with
fear we're pulling the eyebrows together
our lips go sideways and there's a
tension around the eyes now fear is an
expression that you can hold for a long
time someone's telling you a story what
happens next and and then what did you
do against
I have stress in my eyes around my eyes
as the tension of my lips are back Oh
what did you do and what's gonna happen
okay so let me see you looking scared or
fearful great the last emotion we're
gonna do is sadness sadness everything
is going down first of all you notice
that the lips of the mouth go down and
you notice that the eyes start to droop
down it's all down now with sadness I
can't believe I failed the test so
unhappy
let's see you bring everything down in
sadness okay great shabam now remember
these are universal expressions that
everybody makes and they can be so
useful they can be useful both when
you're acting if you're in a performance
or you're in front of the camera but
they're also really useful in life so
that you can understand situations a
little better let's say you're not sure
how somebody feels to you or you can't
quite read what they're saying you can
look at their facial expressions and get
a better idea are they looking at you in
surprise are they looking at you with
this slight disgust do they have a
concern and looking at them and their
facial expressions lets you know a
little bit more about what's going on
with them now the same is with you if
you show a look of surprise you may not
have realized your surprise but you feel
that surprise on your face and it helps
you have some self awareness about the
expression that you're giving and the
best part about acting is that you can
use it to feel what you want to feel or
give the impression that you want to
give let's say you're really surprised
but you don't want them to know so
you're naturally gonna do a surprise
expression ah but you don't want to give
that expression you don't want them to
know you're surprised so then you can
mask it with a happy let's say you feel
little tension you can just relax that
or you're in an interview and you feel
very nervous and concerned and you don't
want them to know you feel NER
and concerned so you can make sure to
get rid of that expression on your face
and put on the expression that you want
to have which might be happy now you can
even use it you just want to put
yourself in a certain mood and this is
what I love if I'm starting to feel a
little angry and I feel a little tension
going on to my eyebrows feel a little
person happening in my lips but I don't
want that feeling I don't want to be
feeling angry I shake it off and I put a
happy expression maybe I get myself just
to hurt laughs huffing once I get
laughing I already have a smile on my
face
and my whole body changes gears because
my body recognizes that I'm no longer
angry mode I'm in happy mode and believe
it or not once you're laughing it's hard
to stay angry okay good now let's talk
about homework first of all I want you
to just pay attention to everyone I want
you to really start to notice
expressions pay attention what people
are doing to their face what are they
doing with their eyebrows their mouths
their cheeks the tension of their face
but for the actual homework I want you
to go through each of the expressions
think about what we do with our face and
then say a line now come up with any
line that you want that makes you get
into that expression you can use the
ones that I'm going to give you or you
can use your own which is even better
okay good
happy again everything's up cheeks are
up big smile I love ice cream content to
the side I can't believe she did that
then we did discussed lips up that's
disgusting then we did anger pursed
eyebrows down if I catch you doing that
again then concern eyebrows are slanted
without the purse lips are you okay and
then we had to surprise what happened
everything's up open open and then we
did fear eyebrows up and together what's
gonna happen to us okay good so go
through each expression and do each one
a line that you come up with now the
second part is get a friend or a parent
or sibling
and I want you to make one of the
expressions and have them guess what it
is you don't even have to speak oh but
let them see if they can guess surprise
see if they gets contempt okay so that's
your homework it was so much fun doing
expressions great job