 Welcome back to the acting analysis and tips for animators and today I'm going to take a look at the movie The Curse of La Llorona I have to say like that every time I know why Llorona Today's going to be a bit different because we're looking at only one sequence Why because I talked about that in my class during some of the Q&A's that I have and I thought it's kind of an interesting topic Let me bring this into an actual clip for YouTube so and speak of which my name is JD and I do acting analysis clips like these I do animation analysis clips. I do lectures about animation I do rib reviews proc reviews animation news feedback stuff all kinds of things You know the drill peek around the channel if you like it subscribe if you don't like it don't subscribe But if you do it helps grow my channel, but that's it. That's the YouTube pitch But let's take a look at that one sequence and I'll explain to you why I want to show you this for context This is a sequence where she was taking a bath and there's a creepy creature in there spoiler And the mom comes in like what happened what happened and all of this happens She crumbles back and this happens also by the way, this has fantastic sound design. Let's play this Love this. Anyway, so we're looking at this because the student of mine needed something with creepy hands Which made me think of this right and spoiler. There's an awesome reveal at the image. He goes, I'm not gonna show this here The reason why I want to talk about this here is that even on something like this That's creepy in a horror movie and you think well, I can't really use that for anything in my animation My thought is yeah, but first of all, there's a lot to unpack here I think there's a lot of really cool stuff you have potential only pantomime and lip sync now You have something where someone is reacting without any words and it's just the shock on the face So you can play up all of this just that in your pantomime While someone is reacting and potentially saying something or also just having pantomime. So just as a back and forth Someone is reacting to something that's behind the other character She or he doesn't know what's going on and this is just shock You'd also be totally different could be laughter You mean like you can make this work for whatever whatever shock content you have But unlike that setup where you have one character just absolutely terrified could also be really really laughing again You can go into full extremes and the other characters just reacting and with or without lip sync whatever line you can find here The other thing that's cool is also as she goes back if you look at what she's doing here Look at the mechanics of the arm and the legs. It's a scramble back So a classic thing for an animation mentor We have a body mechanics class and if you go into more advanced stuff You can pick from a list but you can also choose if you want to do something else One of things could be what if that is your shot the scramble is your body mechanics But now you want to do a bit more you want add a bit more character Well, maybe you add this as a beginning has an audience you're going why is this character so shocked? Then you cut to this character or to this angle and then you have your body mechanics I can show off you have this which can be the lip sync or pantomime again If you go and expand upon the body mechanic shot and it can continue on and on where you have different reactions You actually can show off what's going on. This could be something creepy. This could be something for humor Whatever it is. So we talked about this and I thought that that's a really neat combination You can add another character who has a reaction there again This is another reaction where it just escalates other reactions escalate until you realize what is going on behind them Then you can do whatever you want to with that. Of course the topic came up. Well, this is way too creepy Let's say you want to send us to Disney doesn't probably not the right idea. It's way too creepy So my response that was not that I can speak for Disney recruiters But it could be something interesting when you do something like this. That's maybe a lot shorter You might have a close-up, but it's maybe mostly about body mechanics and maybe you have it like that It's shocked. It's body mechanics shocked and what's going on into this and by now If once you hit that moment, you're actually constantly zooming out of the shock by that I mean there comes a point where you reveal a TV and then you have the kid acting the mom act Whatever it is that might have been creepy maybe dial it down So it's not super creepy But it's just it's been a camera that looks at a TV and we constantly back away from it So we start to see what's going on around it There's a table this could be at the wall or whatever and then you cut to the shot where you have two kids watching it So one could be really happy eating a lot of popcorn stuff is spilling around the other one has the pillow Right where the eyes are it's freaking out, but then it's a bit more cartoony You got that cartoony aspect of it So you did something that's potentially slightly creepy But it's not completely off the mark in terms of something you send the company clearly you have to do research So that whatever you send the company is appropriate But maybe you can start with something that ever so slightly creepy but not too much But just long enough so that by the time you like this is not really what we do you zoom out or your truck back With the camera and then you realize oh it's a TV cut to the kids watching and it can be that Cartoonie fun play back and forth between one sibling loves it The other sibling doesn't like it and do something cartoony with that And that's what I wanted to show where we had to laugh during the class because we started expanding upon the topic And what we could do with it and it's it still started from a horror movie So just because you want to do something cartoony doesn't mean that you can't watch those type of movies for inspiration There's always something in terms of a setup this could be a staging setup This could be just for composition generally this could be how characters interact this could be a back-and-forth or like in here It's a reaction to something that a character sees the other character does has no idea behind them And what that character is seeing and why they're acting like this then you can play out with again I can say pantomime or if you find sound it could be what you're seeing what you're seeing And as if that's your lip sync with the other characters doing pantomime So for any student watching this and again This is something that recommend to all of my students you got to watch a movie a TV show out one a week Just there's always something and anything that you watch that you can pick out as an inspiration for your shop This can be very broad obviously was you should copy things out of existing material But it's as always say a springboard for more ideas and this can be out of unlikely Sources like a horror movie even if you want to do something cartoony speaking of sources If you want me to be the source of help for your shots I do have workshops So if you like that type of analysis and you want to incorporate those kind of ideas into your awesome shots You can sign up at any time You know the drill the description with all the information for my workshop You can sign up anytime you can start anytime you can show me anything So let's work together to make your shots even more awesome and speak of awesome You know also the end if you're still watching even it's been a shorter clip I appreciate it Thank you for the time that you spent on watching my clips whatever this one or any other clips that upload and speak of Which subscribe if you don't want to miss any of those uploads We said to upload a lot and that is that I will say thank you and I'll see you in my next clip