Chapter 33: Detailed Description of Actions
Detailed description of actions (I) and some examples of actions
The description of the character's actions is to describe the character's actions in a meticulous way. These tiny "small actions" can explain the character's identity and status, reflect the process of the character's psychological activities, express the character's personality traits, and sometimes promote the development of the plot.
The detailed portrayal of character actions includes the detailed portrayal of the frozen motion and the detailed portrayal of the action change process. The detailed portrayal of the frozen motion can capture the shape (temperature, color) of the action part for static description, the strength of the action can be grasped and static description, and the use of rhetorical techniques to describe the frozen motion. The detailed portrayal of the action change process includes decomposing the action in sequence, describing the speed (sound) of the action and using rhetorical techniques to describe the changing actions.
This week we focused on decomposing a big move into several small moves in sequence. For example: catching a butterfly - she saw another butterfly and ran over mischievously. The butterfly flew up and down. She stared at the butterfly without turning her eyes. Finally, the butterfly stopped on a flower. She bent her back, with a gap between her hands, and tiptoed carefully. Sweat beads dripped from her face. She tiptoed to the butterfly, bent over and held the butterfly on the flower with both hands. She carefully exposed her hands and leaned her head on the sewing of her hands to watch. She accidentally let the butterfly fly out of her hands. She pouted her mouth in a hurry and angrily, and inserted her hands into her waist, but immediately jumped like a deer and chased another target.
In this clip, we can decompose the big action "catching butterflies" in sequence into several small actions, "see, run, stare, bow, tiptoe, drip, walk, bend, hold, reveal, lean, look, stick, twitch, jump, chase" in a few small actions. They vividly and vividly show the little girl's lively and cuteness.
Chapter completed!