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NARRATOR: Whenever special actor movement is needed for feature films, television, commercials, music videos, animation, or live theatre, Hollywood Movement Coach Lorin Eric Salm is there.

Lorin’s coaching enhances the performance of actors portraying characters of different ages, characters in science fiction or fantasy settings, or non-human characters from aliens and animals to robots and zombies.

Trained by world-renowned master Marcel Marceau at his Paris school, Lorin is an expert in mime and character movement.

As a performer, he has appeared in feature films, on television, and on stages from Los Angeles and Las Vegas to Paris and Israel.

He frequently appears on camera in projects for which he coaches.

Lorin’s work often begins during pre-production where he works with the director to design character movement.

DIRECTOR JONATHAN MOSTOW: One of the things I instructed the actors in this movie is never to play it like they're a robot. We even hired a mime coach to help work with myself and the actors to give training in certain movement techniques that the actors could use that, again, were very subtle, but helped differentiate between robot and human.

NARRATOR: The work then continues on the set where he coaches actors in rehearsal and while shooting.

PRODUCER MARK A. ALTMAN: It was very important that the zombies move differently than in other movies. You know — [zombie sounds]. Jeremy had the idea to hire a choreographer or a movement coach.

DIRECTOR JEREMY KASTEN: I found a mime that I wanted to bring on — a pantomime — to design a way for these undead to move.

LORIN ERIC SALM: Hands should not be out in front of you. Hands should be down at your sides here like this. This way.

MARK A. ALTMAN: The guy named Lorin came up with a unique, distinct movement for the zombies and the way they would move based on the way their muscles would work.

JEREMY KASTEN: Ferocious, but broken, slightly catlike, but also . . . dead.

ACTRESS ELLIE CORNELL: He worked with me briefly because . . . we all have kind of preconceived notions about how one would move. And, um, you actually kind of look kind of goofy if you make it up yourself.

LORIN ERIC SALM: The arms stay back.

DIRECTOR MICHAEL HURST: The idea was they were kind of sharks, and they'd sort of cruise through the water just shambling about, and then when they got near to a victim, they'd suddenly go berserk. And that's what Lorin worked on the zombies with, and he made sure they never used their elbows. They weren't allowed to move their elbows, and they weren't allowed to move their knees so much.

They had to sort of flail around with sort of slightly stiff limbs, to give the sense that they've got a bit of rigor mortis going on and the rest of it.

LORIN ERIC SALM: The only way to get your hand from here to the person you're attacking is to throw it there with your shoulder . . . like that.

I help the director bring his vision for the film to life by, um, by getting an idea of what effect he wants the zombies to have, and then I create the way that the zombies are going to move, the way they're going to walk, the way they're going to attack. And then I'm here to teach all of the actors playing zombies, whether they're extras or principals, [growling] that movement and to oversee it as we're shooting and to make sure that it's consistent throughout the film.

NARRATOR: When traditional pantomime is needed, the benefit of Lorin’s coaching is obvious.

DETECTIVE: Number four, it's your turn.

NARRATOR: When other special movement is required, Lorin’s expertise often surprises.

FAKING IT NARRATOR: In just four weeks, this messy metalworker will try to fake it as a fashion model in a major photo shoot and a catwalk show in front of a panel of experts. Todd works on his posing with Hollywood mime and movement coach Lorin Eric Salm, who studied under the great Marcel Marceau.

LORIN ERIC SALM: Any way that you move can say something different.

TODD: Sure.

LORIN ERIC SALM: We're gonna go over ways you can move the body, so that you know what choices you have.

TODD: I met with a mime today that I expected that would be a totally embarrassing experience, you know, and actually was the first person to really break it down, and that's the way I learn.

NARRATOR: Since 1996, Lorin has taught character movement to artists at Hollywood’s leading animation studios, including Walt Disney Feature Animation, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Rhythm & Hues, working with the teams that created such groundbreaking computer-animated hits as Shrek, Chicken Little, and Dinosaur.

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