 Welcome back! Today is Thursday and that means another acting analysis for animators and today I want to take a look at the movie Bohemian Rhapsody. I thought the performances were great and I thought the onstage, the concert, the energy, just a rummy day with impersonating Freddie Mercury as that character I think was really successful. But of course I'm massively blinded by my love for the music so I'm obviously biased. But what I'm looking at for today is not technically the performances as the singer and his stage performances and all the flamboyant stuff and just the way he tried to emulate Freddie Mercury as the singer and as a person. I was more fascinated by a lot of the looks that people gave each other or reactions. To me it was a movie with a lot of reactions. I don't know why. I don't know why it stood up for me in that movie. Now there were scenes that I thought were cool in terms of something you could use in your scene so when they first see the manager you have Rummy doing kind of a nervous adjustment in his chair because he wants to be cool or just leave a good impression but it's an interesting little adjustment where it's not quite working, the chair is not quite helping him to do this and he has to kind of you know awkwardly get back into this. I think moments like that would be interesting to use in your shot. But as a whole again I thought it was just a lot of reaction shots. There are quick ones, there are little concerts. You have a lot of different varied ones where they hear that the manager, that the specific manager is interested in them and you have happier reactions. You have potential relief, surprise. There's also disappointment when they hear something for the first time or they hear it in terms of music or an idea. There's a lot of different quick looks or just with eyebrows or sometimes you have reactions that are a bit more emotional or something where it's again something they didn't quite expect but it's more related to relationships. Then you also have moments where it's a bit more conflict laden and you know a bit more there's more tension in it but then you still have a quick change with the reactions that gets them out of that situation. And then of course then you have the big concert at the end and it's just the reaction of him singing, the audience reacting to the singing just a group experience and a group energy and I thought just all those little moments are just needed where you can see how they look at each other, how it affects them and it's something that potentially it's kind of tricky you might say in animation where you're real it's just people reacting to things. I'm not sure if that's very appropriate for a real but I think it definitely would be interesting as an exercise to do something like that so it's just a character processing information and reacting to this. But there was a scene and I think that could be something where you take all those reaction shots and if you combine this into something that's potentially useful for you as an animation exercise or an acting or pantomime exercise and it's something where you could even hide the lip sync where the character is such seen from the back. So let me show you the scene. So you have this scene where Freddie Mercury says something but technically animation wise you could already have him like this like you never see the face and it's all about them reacting to what he's saying. What I like here is too that he's got that little moment through here and then he has that big moment through there and it's a lot of body mechanics and interesting walk and just acting through just the back. You don't need to see the face when he talks but what I like is their reactions. If you look at how they look as he walks by they all have sort of different reactions he's kind of waiting for that little connection there and I think that could be something interesting where you could pick any type of lip sync because we don't see the face and it could be something serious, something funny whatever you want to do and you just play up the reactions of the surrounding characters and then it's for you something interesting in terms of body pantomime and just thought process and reactions and it could be just one character or in this case multiple characters having a reaction then seeing each other and making that connection and then reacting as a group and the reason why I'm mentioning all of this is because a lot of times you hear that acting is reacting and I really like that saying whatever you want to call it but it's true when you have just actors that wait for their line where they don't really listen to the other partner in the scene they don't really react and process and have a genuine reaction to whatever is being said it just seems kind of fake or maybe just rehearsed and it's tricky you're not saying that it's easy to do I'm just saying in terms of you doing animation if you have multiple characters really make sure that where we're talking to someone else that person is really listening and reacting to what the other character is saying and in this example you could do something where that is the point of the shot or at least of your exercise where you have a character say something and that character is turned away from camera so you don't see the face, you have to do any lip sync so the technique can use any sound or actually lip sync is off screen and it's just a shot about people reacting but if the sound is not on then maybe it's a bit tricky to understand the context, it might not be as impactful so maybe this could be something where you see a character like what I just showed where you don't see the face but they are doing something so that the audience sees that and there you go, what is he doing and then it can kind of connect with the surrounding characters reacting in the same way I hope that makes sense but that's just something that to me stood out in that movie besides all the concert stuff and the cool performances for whatever reason it just struck me that how many reaction shots there are in this movie there you go, that's it hopefully food for thought the next time you do a shot where you have lip sync if you want to do the lip sync then maybe you go I don't have time for this, maybe I just do reaction shots I don't know, could be helpful and there you go, as always, thank you for watching and if you watched this till the very end you know the whole drill, I am really appreciative that you watched till the very end like and subscribe if you want to why not hit that bell button if you want to get all notifications of all my uploads and that is it and I will see you in a next upload