 Welcome back to another acting analysis final meters and today I'm going to take a look at the movie Greyhound. Greyhound is playing on apple plus and today sequences are covering reactions thought process interaction with sets and reasons for actors to do a certain thing depending on the outside environment and character interaction and why waste time let's go straight into it. First up we have the sequence here with Tom Hanks he is waiting for a certain statement from these guys who've gotten into trouble and the reason why I'm picking this is because there are a couple things I like when you have moments where characters think and they react to things and he addresses the people that are off-screen but he says it while not looking at them waits a bit and then looks up and I like that a little lead to with the eyebrows here if you look at those shapes you're going up first then the eye and then you can see the setup of the scene and why I like this because if you have a shot where you don't want to do too many body mechanics he's basically sitting and he's never really moving these guys are shifting a little bit not doing too much he's not doing too much either and his friend is basically just sitting a little bit of movement here and some head turns here and there so I think this is a great setup for you to kind of practice thought process and reactions and looks and thoughts you can see here as he says things let's go forward here so Tom Hanks says something to him and he doesn't quite understand what's going on he has that look here he doesn't quite get it and he has that reaction to what he just said see it's like oh there's not getting it but I like this because you have looks where you can think you have looks where you can look to someone else and the reason why I like this is because you can have looks towards certain people off-screen and you can wait for their reaction you can have a look over to the friend the friend can have a reaction there you can have reactions as they have to listen to something maybe they're saying something really stupid and he is reacting to things I think this whole setup is a really good opportunity to practice that where you have things where you might have some slower moments where you can see this here there's a little little dart here you can watch his eyes just a slight little pause and then goes into something more frantic you don't really see the pen but you can use this where maybe you see the hand you see the pen moving and it's the contrast of stillness and then moving to something a bit more fast and the extent of mechanics he was basically when he's done with this he can lean back so again it's not super taxing in terms of the amount of work you have to put in and it's a good way to practice things like changes in thought waiting for something reactions between characters or a play between characters confusion a setup like this is really giving you the opportunity because you have all these characters you can do all kind of things between them and really focus on the thought process of whatever character you're focusing second clip I thought was very interesting as he he as in tom hanks puts on his vest he moves over and you can see slightly at the movie there's lots of waves and wind that ship is definitely not stable but I like about this here's a watch that he gets there bumps into the guy and what he does is this and I like this a lot because you could have all kinds of reactions to this character who's stressed there's stuff happening his men are being attacked the ship is being attacked he bumps into this he could be yelling at him he could be pushing him away he could be telling him why you're my way why you're bothering me whatever it is but he does that thing of adjusting the hat pause and then this and it's not a push off it's not something angry it's just that little even like I don't say it's a slight squeeze on that shoulder but it's just this moment of sorry let's get back to it and it tells us something how the captain is interacting with the crew so this is something for you to think about as you have multiple characters in your scene and let's say the exchange looks they have a heated argument they pump into each other whatever it is you have to look at how do they react to each other is this a gentle gesture is that a caring gesture these are all things that will tell us more about who they are and to me it elevates the scene into a different level because you get to know more without the lip sync this is purely through body acting character interaction pantomime potentially if there's no sound but those little unspoken moments I think are really really cool in a shot speaking of cool the thing do as you if you're watching my clips you know that I'm a big fan of sets and I was a big fan of environments affecting the sets because all of that is going to affect the character or multiple characters depending on what you have in your scene so in this case it's getting really cold it's freezing he's trying to look outside to see what is going on but he can't so he's already frustrated so even this already is impacting that where this could be the moment in your scene where he goes somewhere out of frustration for instance and then as he goes out you can see totally frozen and all of that the wind you can see he has to wear this he's got the wind in his face that changes the expression the shoulders are up they are working really hard back there and depending on this he doesn't have gloves on so holding this this could be really cold so you can play it up with finger acting maybe the elbows will be a bit more tucked in so he's really trying to protect himself and be enclosed because it's so cold all of that to me is just more fuel to your scene like something like this if this was really really hot and it'd be sweaty in a t-shirt it would be a different expression again because of the environment and I always harp on that when I talk to my students but to me it's not just well you just add a set because you have to this to me adds ideas it adds elements that will change the shot and it will change the acting choices to make your shot more original more different and not something where as I talked about posing where you just have your t-pose you lower your arms and then you do your movements and that's it so again him being cold like everything will have that type of feel because it's windy and it's cold versus it's hot and someone's acting like this so think about that and this is why I always mention sets and mention the environment and the weather the heat was all of that can add more layers and just something new and different to your shot so that you stand out on your demoreal potentially speaking about standing out on demoreals I have workshops if you want to work with me so I can help you with your demoreal so you can stand out feel free to sign up link in the description with all the information you can sign up at any time and speaking of time if you're still watching this till the very end I highly appreciate it that you're so patient and watching this till the very end and speaking of end if you don't want this to end feel free to subscribe hit that bell button so you don't miss any of my uploads and other than that I will say that's it from me and I will see you 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