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The Mime Story

The Mime Story. How do you create a story without words?. Let's create a story right now for this picture. All Mime performances tell a story. They all need a beginning, a middle, a climax and an end. All stories need conflict - or the event or events that make a story move forward.

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The Mime Story

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  1. The Mime Story How do you create a story without words? Let's create a story right now for this picture.

  2. All Mime performances tell a story They all need a beginning, a middle, a climax and an end. All stories need conflict - or the event or events that make a story move forward.

  3. Story Arch All of you take out a sheet of paper to write this down. Climax Middle Beginning End

  4. Mime Tag Look

  5. Facial Expressions Can you tell when you are making one of these faces?

  6. In order to perform a Mime you must have a very expressive face. Since there are no words in a Mime you need to use your face, body and movements to convey meaning.

  7. Exercise - Emotional Masks

  8. TODAY: We are going to split you up into groups of no more than four no less than two and you are going to construct a Mime Story that lasts no less than three minutes. 1) Your group will be given an worksheet to write down the information about your story. 2) Your story must have a title. 3) Your story must have a beginning, middle, climax and end. 4) It must incorporate the mime techniques that we have been learning in class including at the end a "tag" look for the main character.

  9. Mime story planning (Due next Wednesday)

  10. Brainstorm Take out a sheet of paper and lets brainstorm some ideas for stories that could be performed as a Mime and how you would perform them. Don't limit yourselves!!! Your Mime Story can take place anywhere at anytime.

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