 Welcome back today is Thursday and that means acting analysis right amators and today I'm going to take a look at the TV show bodyguard All right, so as I was naming my files it was silent head move arrogant head head entrance and Goodbye head. So apparently the theme is head accents and twists and what you can do just to kind of portray a certain emotion and attitude So I guess that is the theme. So let's go straight to the first clip So in this one you have this main character with the other main character a bit of a tense Back and forth and he's not a massive fan of hers and she says I believe in this moment She says you don't have to vote for me. She's a politician But you just have to protect me because he is her bodyguard as a detail says so you got this back and forth It's a bit tense. You got those long looks and that's what she says here You just have to protect me and that's you know, he in his fashion goes Yeah, I'll do exactly that mom the rest assured and as always say I love silences in audio clips. It's awesome Oh, she has that little reaction just that little look over a Little dart there. It's all right. I guess that's how it is with that little look and he just goes mom It walks away. So the reason why I'm showing you this is besides the the Silent part here where you as an anime can do acting wise whatever you want You can take control of your shot, but I love this here So he is done and technically as I always say the lip sync whoopee done But you could continue and you can add something to it and I love her little Whoop look up there just that move. It's an interesting move. It's interesting upper arc in terms of animation Parlons, but it's cool. There's something you can do where she could have just the more of a Flippin's you know drop of that folder or she takes a sip or just puts it down and maybe Slowly pushes it away or just I don't know whatever it is But just that just gives us a specific move. Maybe she is slightly Embarrassed slightly frustrated or I don't care But there's something to it where you can add just that one more thing to your character That's as I always say is your creation It's your moment where you can put your stamp on the shop Now the second thing again is something head related and again, it's a very tense discussion Let's go straight to that scene So you have this meeting and they all have their disagreements And it's mostly about this character who really really wants his way And he kind of gets it where she loses kind of the argument and you can see it in this scene here Or in the shot. It was a guy. Well, I had enough. Let's go it this way And she tries to argue because no, no, no, that's it for now Boom he realized. Wait, wait something. Yeah, this is going to explode And this is the moment where he realizes. All right. Well this time I won Now I want you to look at his head Kind of starts to look at her. So watch this Boom already there. I'm ready. He wants to look at her. He wants to give her that face of see I told you so I'm the winner and he looks and she doesn't she knows it, but she looks over She doesn't want to give him dissatisfaction, but he keeps on looking He looks he wants to grab this but goes back and he wants to look at her and she finally Kind of resides in and tells him in certain profane words That you know, I don't get used to this or you know, kind of f off in a way And then he goes away and she has again that also that long stare of you can confront me But I'm going to stand on my own here and I'm going to challenge you But it's just something awesome where it's purely in the angles of their heads the long looks Do they blink or not the confrontation? But look at that long stare. It's just this face off between the two So cool and again, it's something subtle like who knows who would catch That an animation, you know, is less is more you want to keep it clear to the audience and You know the simpler the better not that it has to be overly complicated Just for complication's sake, but it's just a cool moment And maybe if you have a character that is confronting someone we think about well as the character gets To grab their prop and then potentially gets out of their chair Don't just do maybe go from this pose Down to this pose and then get up What could you do during that moment to give it attitude and maybe in this case? Well, the attitude is I want to stare because I want to tell her I told you so you're the loser here And then maybe through that maybe there's no lip sync But you can still have then her look at him and now you just added one more Challenge between the two some confrontation a silent confrontation between the two And that's potentially how you could end the shot It doesn't mean that you have to have these characters here that starts to be too much to animate But again something to think about now the third shot of third sequence is happening right after this So the one in the middle with the glasses who can realize something's going between the two I gotta kind of talk to her and see what's going on He has that entrance of everything okay, and it's an interesting entrance And it's a cool way of introducing a character. So again, let's take a look at it So she goes into her office He follows her And look at how he enters Oh, he already has that that puppy tilt Just that look of that inquisitive look of hmm Everything okay here And then she actually says her thing and he says her thing and he comes by and you know It does a little contrasty thing of one to the next angle And it's cool. I like it. It's also a cool interesting shot If you had this if you had a multiple character shot first character here out of focus So you concentrate technically on one character's entrance and again, he could come in smiling He kind of frowning unhappy come in like this you coming to the head straight I mean all those poses would tell us something Differently something else about the character and that's just to me an interesting Entrance there I like how he stops because eyebrows there All right, it's almost like a little and it's impatient the whole thing It's subtle, but it's there. It's great And then technically you can continue the shot where you have a cool body mechanics acting in open Where it's a walk you can show attitude through a walk And then it changes and then the focus changes will not in this shot But imagine then suddenly he is blurry and so the depth of field changes and the focus changes onto her And then you could have an interesting cool profile shot of the actor Reacting and then you know engaging with this character So anyway, it could be a cool setup for a two character shot But mainly I'm focusing here on the entrance and if you have a character, you know with the lips in peace Maybe the characters don't have to be in the room already when the shot starts What if the room is empty or in this case one character is in there and the person that actually does the talking Enders the room and it doesn't have to be something where the entering of the room is Something that that's in the audio in terms of not the sound effect, but something that the person says Hi, I'm entering your room here and I want to talk to you. Maybe it's just something It's a cattle conversation But instead of maybe the source is them sitting like the original movie has them sitting But maybe you take this and you have them Again here one standing the other character entering and then that entrance could be interesting like a kramer style Entrance of maybe a slide in or again kind of coming in maybe they're You know, maybe they're concerned and it comes in like this or she and it would be like so What do you think and then the second character goes no, I'm okay And that relaxes the first character so you can go from this kind of hunch over a pose to Okay, then you straighten that will give you a pose contrast and so on and so on I think it's just in general interesting to Potentially tweak your entrance of the beginning of the shot to establish a character and then potentially a change in character Now the last one is again related since this is the theme and the chair is breaking one day I'm going to make a clip about me buying a new chair and it'll just be all about the chair I'll do a chair review. How about that? But anyway, so in this case the boss of the main character things richard madden. I think it's his name She has a bit of a Friendly disagreement with him. She's kind of stirring but she's still supportive And I like the way she dismisses him where the conversation is done. She tells me to in this case It's the kind of f off but in the p word So get out of here and she does look at him But it made me think of what if you have a discussion that ends and you end eye contact So I will be talking to you that would be the character in the scene and instead of saying all right Well, you know get out of here. So let me just be Get out of here and they just add that extra Dismissive thing of I'm not going to even look at you while I'm saying this It's not as disrespectful or as strong in this team. Anyway, instead of talking, let me show you So they have their discussion You know and he has this little reaction and they go all right right and so on and so on And then you can see as she's done like he waits he waits for something else It's also a cool thought process moment there and you can see his face follows her And what else? And then she waits realizes no and then she says the p i s s Off a moment here and he goes all right. Okay, mom And he exits but imagine she does this and doesn't look up right? So when you have this and she does have eye contact she does acknowledge him But imagine she doesn't do this. So she stays in this pose says this All the while she is in this pose, right? So that could be an extra layer of I don't care about you. I'm done. Maybe I'm mad at you whatever it is So just in general as I always say think about is your character looking at your other character when they talk Is your eye contact if so for how long? Maybe it's good to break eye contact. Maybe at the very end they come back because maybe they're just insecure or unsure Or is the very confident look away and like get out of here and so on So think about those moments where it's not just i'm doing the lip sync I'm doing something where I need to match my lips to the audio But still think about the attitude. Why are they saying this and maybe potentially can you change the attitude? So if the audio is somewhat neutral and it's delivery you can add You know, I would say maybe you can add a smile to the delivery If you if you talk and smile it does sound differently, but maybe it's just neutral enough Maybe your smile is small enough that it won't sound It won't look weird that sound weird, but it might add an extra layer So, you know, depending on what the delivery is on the audio again, you can add a smile You can add a certain frown you can have you know look away So whatever you can do to tweak the delivery and make it more original and make it your own I think the better and as I always say it's it's your extra stamp on your performance And it will show that you can bring something new to the table Which hopefully is valuable to a company that you're applying for if that's your goal obviously You know, maybe you do something on your own and your own company is totally different But this is just me always kind of thinking Shot wise what would you do for a shot to make it interesting to put on a reel to convince someone to hire you That's kind of my my lens and my focus most of the times I want to talk about this and there you go. That's it for bodyguard. I actually generally really liked the show. It was very interesting I'm a big fan of british cop shows in general. There's always a slight tweak to things. It's a bit different than american shows So if you've seen this, uh, I don't let me know let me know what you think in the comments This is on netflix So maybe if you have netflix and you haven't seen it and you are into things They're kind of like luther a big fan of luther as well So, yeah, I don't let me know if you like this or not And as always if you watch this whole thing till the very end. Thank you so much I would love the vanity metrics of a like and subscribe But actually if you do subscribe and hit the bell button, it's good for you You'll get notified of all my uploads and updates and that's kind of it. I will see you in my next clip Thank you