 All right, welcome back today is Thursday and that means acting analysis for animators and today I'm gonna take a look at the TV show the first which is currently on Hulu All right So as always I am picking out little moments of TV shows or movies that can hopefully serve as an idea or spring board of Ideas that you can tweak and change for your shots so it's not generally an Acting moment where I go watch this act to watch his performance, which is great Which usually they are But it's not that helpful as an animator as the students where you go. Well, okay, I watched this and now what so as always I'm picking out certain small elements that might be helpful in a more practical way And as always if you have other moments for this show or any any other show that I'm showing or movie Let me know in the comments and that way other people can see what you think and what other moments you liked So let's share any good things that you saw or that you liked so I'm gonna start right off with this scene So in this one, we have Natasha mechlehone. I hope I pronounced this correctly She's currently doing an interview and there are a couple things that I like about this One as always the staging I'm always interested in The framing camera wise where she is much closer to here There's a lot more room here which makes this a bit more uncomfortable and she is uncomfortable She's nervous because the flight has potential dangers and the other cool thing is that she is Listening in the earpiece where it is here To a reporter asking questions. So the cool thing is that You can see how she's listening and thinking and processing and they're reacting and also she has a reaction Here before she says it and that's something that's cool But it's not frequently done in lip-sync assignments where you have your character and get your lip-sync And then you just animate to the lip-sync as always say it's interesting That's cool And you got to go through that and learn it but it's also interesting to have an audio piece where the character is actually not Mouthing or doing that piece the character is actually listening to the audio that you selected and it's interesting to see how the character Listen to that react to that and informs opinions or reactions based on what they just heard and in this case That's interesting at least to me to watch this then as she says this again interesting composition How just in terms of framing the silhouettes are interesting and she's very small She's very alone in this because it's again It's a difficult time for her But the thing that I like is that if you watch her reaction here The the person obviously that is not there talks to her and you can tell that they're kind of done with the interview And you can see how she is already inhaling. She already wants to say well, thank you and I'm done with this She's anticipating. She's just so ready to stop this interview. You can tell she holds her breath She's waiting listening nodding. Okay, and they can finally say, okay, thank you And she has even that move forward of okay. Thank you. I'm done. Thank you very much And then look at her facial reaction because you don't even you don't need to audio you can see now done This worked for a gear change assignment, for instance, which actually I'm currently doing for my Academy students So hopefully they are watching this and this might be potentially Inspiration for them how to kind of structure their their shot or again as an idea, but I like this I like how she is ready. She is moving forward. She's done. Okay, and boom That reaction and then she looks down immediately lost in thought Okay, I have this other major thing to focus on which is you know, the launch of the space shuttle or you know The shuttle the rocket type thing that will propel the astronauts into spoiler Doom the next clip is again with Natasha again mech and Mechell I have the name here Mechell Hone Mechell Hone I don't know, but maybe someone can phonetically tell me in the comments I should probably just watch interview where someone says her name and then I should I should have done research Basically what I'm telling you that I've done horrible research for this clip But anyway, so in here again, she is nervous She has to face the parents because something really bad happened. I don't want to say too much spoilers I don't watch the show. It's I like the end of you watched it and if you liked it If not, let me know what you didn't like I liked it a lot. So again, she's facing this and I like this There's a lot of room here. You got this big block here. There's not a lot a lot of room here Again, she's kind of alone and it's uncomfortable. But the reason why I'm showing you this is That it's basically she is Preparing herself not saying she's psyching herself up for something eventful. That's great It's something very tragic and she's very uncomfortable And she really doesn't want to do this and it's actually it's not a scene in Dale's advocate where Keanu Reeves is the same thing in the mirror Multiple movies have done this but it's interesting where this is more of a pantomime type of thing where you can show Well The stages of a character are they preparing are they ready? Can you show a resolve? Can you show a decision? Maybe in here you can say okay mentally. She goes all right. I'm ready in hell. I'm standing up. I'm straight. Okay. I can do this Let's go last exhale that type of thing So there's a lot of acting you can do without audio and of course in here the camera goes back It makes her smaller all those you know the the Closophobic element almost she goes in a long tunnel by herself. She has to face the crowd again stage You want is very interesting but again in terms of acting you don't always need audio and sometimes you can maybe potentially use the Mirror where the where your character is acting to themselves and it could be something where it could be more physical like Getting ready like whatever it is. It could be for sports thing and whatever it is I think that was an interesting moment that you could potentially use for a pantomime assignment Next up we have again her and his time Sean Penn Who's the other main character in the show and Sean Penn has kind of a problem with his daughter The daughter has promised you the typical, you know marriage problems Kids problems, which I'm always not a fan office. The kids are always written in such a dirty way Yeah, I don't know how many shows there are where you the kids are great Or the kids actually help and propel things forward and are a positive force usually I hate to say lazy was it's you know It's just such a shorthand to write teenagers or somewhat older with so many problems because it creates conflict And it can advance the characters because of conflicts. I know I know I'm just not a fan of constantly seeing kids as turds But anyway, so looking at this what I like about that is the usage of the prop of the chewing gum Why because look at this. There's a lot of quick chewing. You might say he's impatient Maybe he's nervous, but he just don't want to be there He has a lot of problems with his daughter and she is trying to convince him to do something to make a decision And he says look, I don't have time. I gotta do this gotta do that But look at his constant chewing. It's always there It's almost like the equivalent of a finger tap which is kind of over used thing when someone has no Some of them does that type of thing or with the foot can over used thing of I am nervous I'm stressed. I'm waiting for something but in this case, you can use it with the chewing gum Now the reason why I'm showing you this is because he does all this, right? And he has different types of chewing or whatever however you chew and it's always there And it can see it with somewhat the silhouette there the way he's framed She continues to try to you know to convince him and then as always they have earpiece in here and a full a phone call Comes in right and you can see how he starts to talk to her and then wait Okay, I got a phone call so he gets up and so far with always seen his face, right? You always see what's going on. We can see in his eyes their reactions and everything But as he goes back here, he takes the call and he turns around Boom and now we don't see his eyes and usually when you don't see eyes We kind of lost we don't kind of know where to look but still this is very out of focus So he is still the main focus here We kind of know we have to look at him and the reason why I'm showing you this is this Look at the jawline. So chew chew chew chew because he is listening He's listening to what's going on the daughter calls and says blah blah blah blah. I'm okay. Actually, she doesn't say I'm okay She says, you know move forward. I don't need you here. It's okay You know if you're busy But now look at how the frequency of the chewing ends because she ends up telling him listen I'm okay You can you can do this and you can see how the chewing stops for a moment, right? You got a lot of chews here and then after a while it starts to slow down and then it stops boom And then it continues on a little bit and then the ends when him saying, okay I'm ready. I can come and do this and that to me is interesting where Again, this is rarely done in animation. It's a tough thing to pull off You know if it's not well done, you might think well, I don't see anything I just see the back something interesting But what's interesting to me is that you use the prop of the gum to show the thought process and contrast So the constant chewing is that that he is processing and he's nervous or he's impatient whatever it is And then you show how he stops chewing and that's the contrast That's the moment where he's processing and thinking there's a switch There's a switch in in his mental state and now he can go on and say, okay I can do this. I can stay here and I can do whatever you need me to do and that's something that's potentially interesting I think the chewing could be interesting to animate you can do a bubble thing if you want you can use that as contrast but You know sometimes a prop is a crutch We're just kind of use it because it's there like a cigarette or whatever you want to use because you want to You don't know what to do with hands and fingers You know in animation, it's not like something you want to do because it's very complicated to do things with fingers But I am a fan of props because it can help you Stage things differently. You could have done this with him showing the face without a chewing gum Kind of listening and then having this moment of eyes are locked and then maybe blink and look over and okay I mean my my decision and this is what I'm going to do But I think this is interesting to show how he turns around you just see the silhouette of the jaw And then you can use that to show thought process and change I mean that's interesting next up is not quite an acting thing It's just more kind of a visual staging contrasting Presentation type of thing which I thought is interesting and again is used in all kinds of movies and TV shows I wanted to mention because it's there and I saw I don't kind of liked it So in this case you have the daughter which actually my casting sheet I don't see there. I don't see her list there. So I don't know her name I apologize here But the reason why I have this is because of focus interesting how everything is moving And I know it's out of focus and it's clear that she is the focus But when you have a lot of things moving it's it potentially could overwhelm the subject where the actor The character, you know the prop the animal whatever it is that you want to showcase gets kind of lost And the contrast here is that everything is moving But she is not and again, I know this is out of focus and she's right there You got her eyes. I mean it's pretty clear that this is what we're supposed to look at But in terms of staging this could be interesting if you have your character and you have all your walk cycles You want to showcase and there's stuff moving on and going on in the background And you want to create contrast like that then just have that character not move or just minimal movements And that way it's clear that you know, I need to look at this at an audience member Again, this is you know, fairly obvious in this but it's a moment I like that I just wanted to show it all right next up is the actually last clip where it's kind of a confrontation between The daughter, which I just looked up and that is Anna Jacobi her own her own her own I don't know how to pronounce it, but that is her So it's kind of where the the father champagne has to make a decision He's kind of he wants to talk to the daughter and they can at this point very separated and angry at each other And I think the staging is interesting and again the usage of prop So let's take a look at it. So again, what I like about this is the just isolation of him He's just very very small in frame and the silhouette is very clear here She comes in and I like that he is facing this way He could have easily sat this way and look at the door But maybe you might argue maybe he's dreading it He doesn't really want to look at it or he knows or things that she's not coming And that that's why he's looking this way. He's already disconnected But it gives it also an opportunity that when she opens it or here for him to turn And you can show that you know, he's anxious. He's alert He gets up. He's ready to talk to her now. These are a couple things that are interesting He's ready takes a step towards her And she doesn't really just kind of sitting on that path and you can see how he leans in Maybe for a hug or something But she just kind of looks at him And then stands there. He's like, no, I'm not engaging. I want to sit down And it's not like she has her arms crossed, but she does cross her legs So it's kind of like, okay, well, I'm ready here. Whatever. So let me know But she's not really engaged and you can see his kind of sort of defeat like, okay That's how it goes and she's completely disconnected looking away now Again, this is interesting in terms of character building if you have your characters think about that Think about that. Do they always have to look at each other? Or what does that mean when one of them looks away? I mean, it's an it's an important character or an emotional story point So then as he sits down, what I like is this So he sits down and despite everything he still brings the chair or the, you know, the pool Laying chair. I don't know what that's called. Um, I should know But right now I don't the Pool chair. I don't know right now. I don't know comments Let me know the comments because I'm an idiot clearly. So anyway, I like this I like that he still gets closer. He wants to engage. He's leaning forward, right? You can see how Everything in terms of his actions and his poses. I want to engage. I want to be there But what's also cool is that they linger on this for quite some time where the characters are small But it's interesting that as you watch this and if you can scrub forward You can see the change here is that the camera is actually slowly Moving forward and it's kind of a slow creep into the scene Also, if you know the history between them and the mother, there's something ominous about water Being displayed and you might argue about the symmetrical nature of this or kind of a standoff face of all kinds of things You can read into this But I like that it stays for quite some time with those characters like this And only when he tells her what I haven't signed yet. I'm not going just yet Then it cuts to her and then you can show off a bit more detailed reactions where you want to see this You want to see how she reacts what she says and then of course how he reacts to whatever he said With that type of thing where you kind of look up and as always there's a lot more in this series If you have any other moments that you like, let me know let me know in the comments But that's kind of it for now I know there's a season two or if this needs to have a season two But these are the things that I liked in season one of the first again, you can watch this on hulu If this was somewhat interesting and you liked it give this a like as always Subscribe if you haven't yet and hit that bell button when I'm going to upload every day And you want to get notifications for all the things that I'm uploading and then tomorrow It's going to be a new fna. No more q&a enough questions and answers. So maybe in the next two months We just fna and then back to q&a. 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