1. In Your Face Body Language through facial expression

2. Your Face and emotion The expression on your face tells a lot about how you are feeling, or reacting to something. The expression on your face tells a lot about how you are feeling, or reacting to something. Actors MUST use facial expression to show what their character is thinking, feeling, doing, or planning to do. Actors MUST use facial expression to show what their character is thinking, feeling, doing, or planning to do. Good facial expression takes practice. Good facial expression takes practice.

3. How to Get a Good Face Facial expressions occur so quickly they appear to take place all at once. Facial expressions occur so quickly they appear to take place all at once. They actually follow a certain, natural sequence: They actually follow a certain, natural sequence: The eyes see and react Then the mouth moves Other facial muscles follow

4. Practice This 1. Eyes: Open eyes wide. Lift your eyebrows. 2. Mouth: open to an “O”. 3. Muscles: used here to form the “O”. This is how you show SURPRISE

5. Put on a Happy Face Squint your eyes Squint your eyes Lift your eyebrows Lift your eyebrows Curve your mouth up, sometimes you can part your lips, if you want to. Curve your mouth up, sometimes you can part your lips, if you want to.

6. Sadness This one takes more practice. Do a sad face all at once, first. Then follow these steps, and notice how the sad face is actually formed. This one takes more practice. Do a sad face all at once, first. Then follow these steps, and notice how the sad face is actually formed. Eyes narrow and lids drop. Eyes narrow and lids drop. Outer eyebrows turn downward. Outer eyebrows turn downward. Mouth turns down. Mouth turns down. Facial muscles sag. Facial muscles sag.

7. Anger Eyes narrow considerably. Eyes narrow considerably. Eyebrows furrow Eyebrows furrow Mouth twists downward. Mouth twists downward. Lips sometimes curl out and down into a sneer. Lips sometimes curl out and down into a sneer. Jaw drops and sets firmly. Jaw drops and sets firmly.