The Description of Facial Muscle Movements Of Pantomime In Moritz Högemann’s Short Film : Bus Stop

Abstract

The discussion in this paper focuses on the facial muscle movements of pantomime of the leading character in the short film Bus Stop. In this paper, the author aims to describe the movement of the pantomime facial muscle movements found in the short film Bus Stop, to find out the meaning of facial muscle movements performed by the leading character in this short film. And also to find out which facial muscle movements of pantomime dominate in the short film Bus Stop. The data is collected by the author from screenshots on the short film Bus Stop. From this data, the author finds and describes the meaning of the facial muscle movements of pantomime using a qualitative descriptive method. The description in this paper is based on the theory contained in Charles Aubert's book which mentions the types of facial muscle movements of pantomime. Therefore, 6 types of pantomime facial muscle movements have been found in the short film Bus Stop, namely the facial muscle movements of pantomime of the cheeks, nose, jaw, eyebrows, lips and eyes. And the facial muscle movements of pantomime that dominates in the short film Bus Stop is the movement of the eyebrows. In writing this paper, the writer found the lack of references about pantomime. The writer hopes that people should learn and discuss more about pantomime, even write scientific paper about it. So this paper will be one of the refence that can be used in writing the next paper about pantomime.