How Actors Gain Your Trust And Why It Matters | Darren Tunstall | TEDxSurreyUniversity
Professional actors learn to move with smooth, fluent motions. This way of moving creates in the audience subconscious feelings of trust, which is an essential prerequisite for the actor to represent extreme emotions and aggressive actions. Darren wanted to find out if such perceptions of trustworthiness travel occur outside in the real world offstage. With colleagues in Psychology and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Surrey, Darren created a motion capture experiment with dyspraxic subjects that showed how even basic point light displays of smooth movements shape our moral judgements of people. Before he became a teacher, Darren Tunstall was an actor for over twenty years. And during that time he discovered a simple truth about acting that changed his career. ‘When an actor walks on a stage,’ he says, ‘the first thing they must do is get the audience to trust them.’ In this talk, he reveals the secret of how they do it, and explains what his collaboration with a psychologist and a human movement scientist tells us about the deep significance of the actor’s secret. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Professional actors learn to move with smooth, fluent motions. This way of moving creates in the audience subconscious feelings of trust, which is an essential prerequisite for the actor to represent extreme emotions and aggressive actions. Darren wanted to find out if such perceptions of trustworthiness travel occur outside in the real world offstage. With colleagues in Psychology and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Surrey, Darren created a motion capture experiment with dyspraxic subjects that showed how even basic point light displays of smooth movements shape our moral judgements of people. Before he became a teacher, Darren Tunstall was an actor for over twenty years. And during that time he discovered a simple truth about acting that changed his career. ‘When an actor walks on a stage,’ he says, ‘the first thing they must do is get the audience to trust them.’ In this talk, he reveals the secret of how they do it, and explains what his collaboration with a psychologist and a human movement scientist tells us about the deep significance of the actor’s secret. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx