 Welcome back to another acting analysis and tips for animators and today is part two of Mayor of Easttown and I'm going to cover how a character is listening and reacting, how you would have an expected and unexpected outcome for movements, contrast in people and in general look at character movement and set dressing in today's episode and let's go. Part two is not that spoilery, I'm going to continue until the very end of the whole season so I will mark spoilers if there's anything and obviously if you haven't seen anything anything will be a spoiler but this is not really picking out who did what and everything it's more about character kind of reactions and behavior and stuff like that. Now I prefer to continue if you're new to this channel hi my name is JD and I do acting analysis clips like these I do animation analysis clips I do review reviews product reviews I do animation lectures news all kinds of stuff that's the pitch you know it at the beginning feel free to browse around if you like it subscribe you don't miss anything and if not just keep watching or not come back later if you want but that's that let's go to the clips and the first one I'm talking about is this one so Mayor she is interrogating this guy and throughout he's very flustered and obviously upset because his daughter something happened that again kind of spoil it's the setup of the scene but I don't want to spoil too much so the main thing is that he's not really looking at her it's got a lot of movements you can see in the eyes he's looking maybe at her it's more of it to the side and then over that's really more at her back to the side so it's a lot of kind of unfocused movement and that's my dog hold on I gotta close I gotta close the door the dog in dog I gotta go and close the door hold on like I was saying a lot of unfocused movement and eye darts and just you know that's the state of the character until she and you can see this here where she kind of prepares yourself say all right I gotta ask a question there's a person of the lips here take all right well I gotta ask where were you then you got that slow look towards him and I love that little stare and you can see bam now he looks and stares and he goes no no I was here all night and I love this and this is the reason why I'm showing you this it's contrast in moving where the character can be unfocused darting around thinking of all kind of stuff and if there's something really important and the character suddenly goes and doesn't move that's a big change in movements you can imagine in your timeline of movement you have movement would stare so that is something to think about as you have a character moving all the time when is it interesting to stop moving is it for a very specific moment now in this case all eyes are on him because he could be the suspect and I like this moment here as he continues his kind of look there and that's something that you could add so as always if you watch my clips you know that if you have one character talking or two characters talking it doesn't have to be the focus on them in terms of lip sync this guy could have all the lip sync and your animation is all about this character reacting it could also be them talking or just her or just him whatever but then you insert a bunch of shots like these of other people reacting and listening and looking around then it's just pantomime reacting to sounds I think that could be really interesting too and he continues on with him and his reaction and she gets all right I get it she has a bit of a sizing up he wash her eyes down up but then she heard what she heard and all right well and you can see that little blink here like okay well I heard it it's fine this one is a bunch of stuff and I love her I mean I love her in this whole show it's so good he is already in her office this is the first time that she is meeting this guy so she I love this she's not happy you can see that already in this look looks around what has he touched what has he done looks around then and I love this this is again why I love props the way she takes this out this is certain aggressiveness and frustration in this yes she's already selling it in this but you could have a bigger accent than with this and then he hears that kind of all right well hi I'm such and such and he goes okay well what are you doing here and then this is what I'm gonna show you this is your and I've shown this a couple times this shows up in movies in other tv shows a character that goes for handshake and the other character denies it and then you got their reaction and I like this because I mean you can obviously do this it's a very straightforward move and focus on that denial and then kind of depend on my face or if there's audio of how a character reacts to this going okay and you can see this kind of a lowering of the shoulder here but I also like this just from an idea principle of a character starts an action and you know in the typical polite fashion she would shake his hand as well so this is a followed by b but if you deny b there's just something in a viewership where you go oh that's interesting if this is not what I was expecting so this is like the main idea principle behind is all where you start with a move and the audience expects a specific outcome and you don't give the audience an outcome that could be potentially interesting this actually continues in the sequence as well he is again in their office looking at this she comes in holds coffee here and realizes oh this guy again is in here and he says good morning and you can see I love this good morning it's this is again it's the kind of variation of a handshake if someone says good morning then you will probably look at that person right and say good morning too but if you go and you look away and you go morning really looking away that's not super polite unless there of course there's something distracting and there's a whole point of looking away but usually you will look the person in the eye so that's kind of the variation of the handshake again you expect something well then that's kind of the difference in terms of looking away change of focus and then he goes all right well is that coffee i got you coffee and it's the same thing here where he kind of extends it to her like well if you want to i got one for you and she doesn't take it and then he got that frustration there but the cool thing is this continues on and he says all right can we just reset this so he wants to start over with the hi i'm new to all this why don't you respect me as a partner let's just work together and this is awesome just her reaction to all of this whatever i all those little head shakes i love this here just that little that little jaw move here he keeps explaining what is going on what he wants this relationship to be she's on the case all the time like she is the main person he can see the frustration the looks over really really he's still talking all right let me look up but then he continues explaining what's going on and then she's starting to get us a bit more interested you can see this here just that little puppy tilt right from here to here it's not much animation wise but it gives you something from static to okay i'm interested and it's even broken up by a blink it's like i'm listening all right wheels are turning i'm changing my mind blink to a different state of mind into that and then as you continue cigar let's do this let's do this even she kind of agrees like okay and that's the thing of you can you can pan to mind what are you going to say earlier i've said i've talked about this before in different clips where she goes okay and you don't have to nod when you say okay it can be earlier it can be a no it can be a yes or whatever that anticipates this and i like that just because it's kind of the the breakup from the expected you think yes would be clear not but she does it beforehand and then when he realizes oh okay he has that kind of relaxed lean back but before that he was pitching things potentially leaning forward a bit and he can relax goes oh she said okay well let me lean back i like this again it's it's subtle it's just a slight shift here watch his upper body and back a little okay and then her like whatever and this is so good let's go ahead frame by frame you can see the rays of the eyebrows winding over the eyes whatever just kind of one hand gesture leaning over it's so great and then as he does this he was all right let's start over here's this is my name let's shake hands and i love that he's just it's just so cute it's come on come on and i love that little gesture it's right slightly off screen here come on come on and that actually breaks the icing it's kidding me okay but it's such a specific thing that she even looks at it throughout the whole time it's just a great moment of just his character and and their relationship this is a great example for contrast in character posing i can't really play the whole thing if i play the whole thing here i will get copyright strike and all kind of stuff but just look at shoulder up arms crossed this is an interrogation thing just the outfits and the way they look and how lower she is in frame she's kind of almost bundled up hiding and kind of closer to the lower edge here to hide then you have her much higher she does a lot of eyebrows and squinting a lot of stuff like that with the nose she's really cute she's got different characters she's a lot more polite she's a lot more straightforward i highly recommend you watch this the sequence there it's so good then it continues on with her she's a bit more static but a lot more looking with eyes you can see this here also a little more nervous blinks she doesn't say anything until the end but then it continues on you can see these different characters how they react and i love this here too the lean kind of way his face such a great stare this continues on as they have i love this too that your character could have that pose throughout the shot just having the hand back there why not and with him like this playing with this kind of distracted you can see that those witnesses what they say is not really helpful but again it continues on and as you continue there's a new character in i love that just the way he looks again she does a lot of that through there if your character has those shapes just interesting just the contrast in all those characters again she's lower and at one point they ask about a gun shot and you can see here the different ways of saying no of that little going back with the chin here no and then him almost swiveling no with the chair a bit more relaxed no no no and he continues on here there's a bit of a more pronounced for sure no and you can see how she again but she's so active in her shapes it even starts with eyebrows first like almost like she heard the question goes oh no no no no and then she goes no no no you can see that widening of eyes and then the straightening and all those different ones i love that that she's doing with the hand here and then her again it's not huge just a bit no it's what it's just great i love that face it's just a really great contrast of so many different characters so once again if you have multiple characters think about that think about how is their posture how do they lean are they hiring frame or not is that important or not would they be centered or a bit more to the side and if you have multiple characters in the same frame again is that something that's important so is this something of interest you can add by the contrast of posing this one is short and sweet just because she's getting ready for a date and i love this little thing here she kind of has a sniffing arm the armpit sniff test which i will admit i do sometimes if i wear a shirt around the house i do a little armpit sniff can i still wear this today tmi and then there's this i just like that as a character thing so obviously there's no lip sync there's nothing i mean obviously you can't hear anything i turn the sign off but there's no lip sync she's preparing herself and that's just something to think about is your character walking from a to b those are awesome a's from a to b with my awesome arrow what is the character going to do is that something is the character really caring about being neat so on the a to b path readjusting something that was just off for a moment adjusting maybe the frame or just whatever you do like your character going somewhere can still be filled with all kinds of personality and character traits and last but at least this is the moment here i love this anybody who has kids you know that you can clean your house or part whenever you have you will always find kids toys somewhere and i love this idea in terms of set dressing so you put your character into an environment just to make some more interesting for interaction giving it context or stuff to do and then you can put in toys like that it gives us a you know it could be maybe like it's even like a super wealthy house nice and clean and you know paintings all kind of stuff but throughout you'll just see kids toys peppered because as a parent they're just going to be everywhere i have that stuff everywhere here i even keep this year all the time i'm a little money made me a long time ago a little heart and i just keep that we always have stuff here from the kids so that's something for you to think about if you do put your character in an environment maybe you want to just kind of suddenly hint that the person is a parent or a caretaker or something and then put that stuff there in the set just give it an extra layer of texture and just atmosphere and feel and maybe something for the character to interact with to look at and so on and speaking of look at that this is a very straightforward segue if you want me to look at your shots if you like this and think that's interesting i can take those ideas and principles and help you with your shots to make your shots even more awesome and that is the pitch for my workshop so you can sign up at any time you can start at any time link in the description all the information of course and that is that it's the end thank you for watching till the very end as always appreciate your time and if you don't miss any of these feel free to subscribe and hit that bell button so you don't miss any of my uploads and that is that so thank you for watching and i'll see you in my next episode