Elementary
Effective mime includes:
- Clearly established and consistently maintained boundaries within the setting (entrance, exit, placement of furniture)
- Gestures that are specific and reflect the unique shape, weight and features of the object being interacted with
- Gestures that are chosen help to highlight key ideas that connect to story/help audience to make sense of events
- Facial expressions used to complement/inform gesture to support meaning
Secondary
An effective mime presentation may include:
- Clear story elements (beginning, middle, end, conflict, climax, conflict resolution)
- Clear characters and actions maintained throughout the story
- Precise physical and eye movements
- Consistent points of contact and invisible object placement
- Bodily reactions to illusionary objects (i.e., responding to the weight, shape, size, tension, texture/temperature) and the forces they exert
- Emotional reactions to illusionary objects (i.e., over-exaggerated facial expressions and emotion)