 Welcome back to another acting analysis Friday Meters and today I'm gonna go old school and look at the West Wing That's right. I went through my list of all the things I want to talk about I went all the way down to very old examples So let's take a look at the sequences from the West Wing season 2 episode 8. First off is the discussion with CJ and these two characters She is upset and she is having a heated discussion with these two guys here and as she comes back She has an interesting way of listing things where she goes Well, I don't want to do this. I don't want that then she does this. I love this with the hair I don't want to this I don't do that and it's just a great moment of Using an existing feature of a character to accentuate her emotion her attitude and some of the character rigs that are out there There are controls for hair So it's not always easy to do anything clothing or hair, but in this case if you do have a rig You'll be interesting to use that where either character does this they can straighten the hair They can potentially the ponytail bring it up front and play with it or pull it There are all kinds of things you can do with the characters actually We will love that the timing rate of that That it all really fits into the whole discussion that she has and the attitude and the energy in that scene Next up is this little sequence those couple shots where we see the character Shake hands and say by and you can see how the president kind of addresses someone not that high It's a giant he addresses the giant this is someone off-screen We probably escort the person on the score, but I'm sure this person The exit and blah blah blah what I like about this is that it kind of expands the scene as you have one two three Anyway, right? This is the scene. These are the characters and that's all you have but by doing this by looking Past the person off-screen acknowledging someone that would do something getting your scene It could be whatever someone that actually walks in someone where hang it's on the shoulder to guide the person out To maybe a hand that comes in a piece of paper to give him something whatever it is But it expands the world this makes it a bit bigger and you can do this in just in one shot I don't have to have this here right you can just have this play this out pantomime or lip-sync and just that Gives us more information. It could be something where that person is looking for help Maybe this person is really looking at this person here in a more obvious way and that is your moments too Maybe I'm really big eyes and signal to someone that's off-screen. I need help or give me something so there's something that can play with by Not thinking that your scene is this that makes sense. It's not just this box There's more out there and you care to Ken acknowledge that and add something to the scene now Of course, you can have something where it's like here where you start with this and with that I mean you could technically have your character. Let's say this character here is Here and the other characters here watching over blah blah blah this will buy and you have the door frame with another character in there So maybe maybe if you want to you can start the shot where there's lip-sync or pantomime whatever and these are these That's the focus, but you do see a third character. They're waiting and now when this character does this as an audience We understand a bit more because maybe That person here and that gesture or look at whatever. So there's a specific connection That is now even funnier or more dramatic or whatever you want to do because we have seen the person back there But anyway, I like this idea and I like that that moment here because again, it expands the scene that is my Symbol for expanding this is why fun. I don't know that is but anyway Next up is this where this character tells this character to put this down and look at how he does it ready and With the hand out and this is why I love props I mean you can do this of course in many ways without the problem But he holds on to this even how he goes from here as that change to me So even like a change in posing right you have that kind of pose with one arm down holding this Down there then you can do this It's a bit of a change that you might argue it's been twinning there But it's a change it's a contrast and then it's a handoff on the other hand and then when you see This is a bit of a pause list that look there because of the conversation that they had and then I love this just that moment of letting it go and having That just that that attitude of all right. Well, there you go There you have it and even if your scene is this where we don't have this Maybe this scene starts with lip sync this person is talking, but you don't want to really animate lip sync So it's it's seen from the back So we don't see it We don't have to animate much easier and it's all about how this person reacts to this person And maybe could be very similar to this line where he says okay leave that paper here leave the paperwork here You can have that so it's all about the pantomime reaction to this character here So again, you can use lip sync or you don't really have to animate it But my thing is always this prop now gives us a chance to enhance the mood the Feelings whatever the relationship between these two characters and yes, of course you can do this without a prop There's so many options and ideas that can come from using a prop and putting it down like that and adding that as a Kind of like an emphasis of your character's emotion Next up is this where she tells the people that are now off-screen I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that and you hear off-screen. Yeah, whatever do that and then that's her reaction There's so many things that love about this is that she Also, I mean you can see that the beginning but I love that almost as a reveal where these characters are blocking her And then you have that like that is kind of the reveal With that pose and how she gets there with that little accent a little up on the toes Whoop, they'll drop the roots Some little accent there and you can also see the little change of the hand. It's almost like you I mean She hits that pose here in this but it's almost like this is your Technical your main pose and that's your sub post a little flourish with an extension there But I love that little rhythm there and then as she hears that yeah, whatever do whatever you want I love how it starts with this There's a patient and leading of the fingers into a rival. Let's go But I love that she keeps that arm like this So watch this again how she has that pose closes with the hand and goes all right But it stays like an added comedic effect of holding that pose with that arm and I love that you're just Not too crazy in terms of setup and you have all the walks that is complicated animation But I like this I like that that staging maybe that's something you can use to where again Like I said characters are Obscuring someone and then maybe this is the character holding something Maybe that object is the added humor and then you have potentially the opportunity of having a lip-sync of one into characters But one is off-screen. So again, you don't have to animate it Maybe that character says this one little thing like she says here And then you have mostly everything that's off-screen and then it's all about her reacting to this very physically with that turn to The head leading that turn and then the arms thing and in that exit There you go classic TV show the West Wing there are so many seasons actually I only have this part I didn't write anything else I should probably go back and watch that show again although I don't have time to do that But if you are interested in multiple characters and the different behaviors and how they talk how there is a posture And how they do things that show has a lot of characters with a wide range of different attitudes and like I said character Postures and then just ticks and things. I think they'll be really cool for reference So if you haven't watched that show yet, it's on Netflix and you can watch it if you want to and if you have let me know in the comments if you like the show and the things that you've taken from the characters like like the President's way of grabbing the jacket and putting it on I think that's because he has a shoulder injury and you can't really do the things you have to do Put a jacket on so that's why he puts a jacket on the way he does I don't know anyway Let me know in the comments if you watch it if there's anything else that you thought was interesting cool Other than that speaking of cool Hopefully if you feel like this is cool and you want to use that in your shots And you want me to help you and we can work together I have workshops link in the description with all the information you can sign up at any time Let's work together and if you feel like this was interesting in some way and you want to see more You can subscribe hit that bell button and subscribe so you get notifications for all of my uploads I do upload a lot except weekends other than that. 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