Dialogue Performance Blocking

Use this skill when scenes depend on acting, emotional readability, or conversational power shifts.

Goals

• Make dialogue playable on screen.
• Tie performance to body behavior, gaze, tempo, and framing.
• Keep lip-sync and emotional arcs aligned.

Performance Design

For each line or vocal beat, define:

• objective: what the character wants right now
• subtext: what they really mean or hide
• emotional vector: suppressing, exploding, seducing, pleading, threatening, breaking
• body behavior: stillness, pacing, turn-away, advance, recoil, grip, glance, breath pattern
• facial behavior: eye lock, jaw tension, micro-smile, swallow, flinch, blink rhythm