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The Language of the Head

     “Every picture tells a story.”   -Early 1900s advertisement

            Your head is an important backdrop of your story. The audience sees in it the necessary visual aids that help them imagine the story’s scene; If your face doesn’t give them verbal clues then the audience eyes would have time to roam around, and chances are, there are a lot of attention grabber in the room.

          Head tilting is another issue worth mentioning here. Personality gurus asserted that many people have the unappealing tendency to tilt their head on one side. We do this gesture usually when we are sizing up people. Observe your reaction on people who look at you with squinted eyes along with this gesture. If you are daring and don’t want to wait, try this on others. The exercise will give you a profound understanding of human psychology - and make you a local pariah.

          Know the personality you radiate with your head. Think of as many effects you can achieve by pulling your head back, pushing it forward, and lifting it up or bringing it down forward. In all this you must thank your neck, the miracle worker behind these antics. The real significance of things is often unrecognized. The same is true with storytelling – we pushed aside many essential techniques for we underestimate their value.

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