Today I have learnt that human movement is based on arcs. When the body closes in on itself (the foetal position), your spine curves, your fists clench and your body tenses. Also your face scrunches up, e.g. your pupils go down, you close your mouth and your eyebrows go down.
However when we spread out again, our arms stretch out, our spine straightens and we open up our hands. This body movement is key when thinking about a character closing in on themselves because they are scared and then when they open up their body because either they think the reason to be scared is gone or they have plucked up the courage to face their fears. In addition to this some more key movements that he taught us are that when you torso goes forward, your hips go back and your knees bend. Where as when your torso goes back, your hips go forward.
I thoroughly enjoyed this lesson with Tim as we were even given the chance to use puppets that he had brought with him to create small stop motion clips of body movement. Here are the clips that I created and some photographs from throughout the session:
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