 Welcome back it is Thursday and that means acting analysis for animators and today. I want to take another look at the TV show ER That's right. It is time for another ER I have about a 50 of those it's time to bring them back when I bring them back to maybe once a month And there's always awesome stuff with Carter and this time also other people in the cast so let's get right to it So this one is Carter and you can see It cracked me up. So there's where knows is that she has tuberculosis So he asks her she finally says yeah, I might have this and look at Carter's reaction He goes wait what tuberculosis and look at him how he slowly Decides to cover his mouth. It's not like he has to really hide it He's a doctor he can protect himself, but I love the pantomime aspect of him looking to settle a head dart And then how he slowly starts with the chart Looks around So good he does a lot of that stuff in the show So there's a lot of pantomime and looking around and just gestures and just looks that he has it's awesome And I love that because it's something that you could use as I always say when you have a character that does the lip sync You can stick to that lip sync and do exactly what you know You're you're bound to that timing and everything but you could have a second character Reacting to that and maybe you don't even see the person that performs the audio Maybe that person is in the background or we can kind of stage you like in this where one character says something We cut the other person to reacting and then doing something with a prop whatever it is Reacting to that situation or specifically to what that person said next one is with dr Weaver and she is one she always has one of those crutches That's the word it's early in the morning and we're already forgetting my English but now she he always has to use one of those for balance or for walking and everything and Because you do this if you had this you'd be used to doing things with one hand So if you have this and you can only use one arm one leg or whatever it is You're used to using it in a different way and in this scene What I love is that she opens the door and she has the chart there with the paper and she can't use this hand This hand to flip the paper over. So what does she do? She does it like this and It's something that just in the scene. It's just normal because they're just talking That's the actual focus of the scene is the content But what I like is that detail so if you have your character and they're used to doing something again They might have just one eye one arm one leg or something else Or maybe they are used to maybe to have functioning arms But they're doing something where they have to hold something both arms and they're used to doing that action And then whatever they need to do they can do this with their mouth grabbing something or whatever it is But it shows that the character has done this a couple times There's history there and it kind of shows that you did your research that well if this character is doing this Or has this affliction or whatever it is. What would they do to compensate? And is that something that's part of their normal routine and lastly another one with Carter But it's actually Benton dr. Bent reacting to Carter. So so as you watch this already like this He is happy about the job that she does like hey, that looks pretty good And as always if you want to watch the whole thing you can hear the audio and everything I'm going to upload this separately link in the description to a clip that is unlisted as always Copyright and all that good stuff. So that is separate as always for you to watch But he tells her good job, and I like this that it's kind of like a visual representation of what he says He's just excited. He's very happy. It's a cute little detail. And again, if you had audio Let's pretend right your audio of the person that says it up here You might not want to or can't Animates the lip sync and that's something else that would show how he feels it's a simple thing with the hand But anyway, he does that she invites him for something else. He goes. Yeah, why not and then Benton comes in Surprises Carter with that Carter as always in every season has the fantastic moments But what I love is this his long reaction This is not this is not it but I love his he she has that look and I love Carter's double take, huh? But then it's that long look and a couple things about this here But she says Carter says Carter right here get Carter and then come in he has that little Just you like come on come on come on But the cool thing is that a you can drag out this moment of it's pretend you have your lip sync and again This is different because you have the ambient sound that stretches So if you have lip sync and you have a couple pieces of you know, what a sentence that you have So it's kind of tricky when you insert silence and then like this ambient sound hissing or background stuff with people And then there's complete silence and then suddenly the audio continues It's sometimes a bit jarring when you suddenly have that cut off and then the sound comes back So if you could somehow sample ambient sound or you know room noise or whatever your ambient sound that you have in that scene And you can fill those holes that would be great But sometimes it's just a bit too jarring when I cut in and out But in this case it is there that's part of the scene there is that long silence But what I like is that you can do your own acting as always in if you've been watching this You must know that I'm very fond of this is that when you have your lip sync and this is long pause It's totally up to you to add acting in there and you can do some more subtext You can kind of change the situation you can make it more serious more comedic and in this example It's just a great moment of how is he going to react and an opportunity for you to kind of show your acting chops And in this case it's that look again. No movement. Just it's completely stunned. It's that little dart here But I'd love this here So I start yes that reaction looks over wants to say something right, but he doesn't say it just yet Then again Wants to say it again, but doesn't and then he says Carter So from a pantomime point of view, I love this because you can add all that stuff But also from a lip sync point of view what I tell my students is that that you don't have to always stick to the shapes When the audio happens, right? So when someone's like in his case, he says Carter You don't have to do a default back to default closed mouth and wait and then go Carter he has that moment of Carter and that could be applied all kinds of things, right? So with someone I think it made that example a while back when someone is surprised You don't have to wait and be in default mode and go what you can have that moment and have the care to go What and you can start to form that shape is long anticipation Before you actually say it and in this case again It's just something in terms of his reaction where he wants to say Carter He goes like I can't believe this happening there Look at Carter come and it's just something that is a cool opportunity for you to again to add those Acting skills that are outside of the lip sync. That's something that you bring to it This specific timing is up to you acting is up to you That's not something that you have to do because that's the timing of the lip sync when that's the emotion in the lip sync And that's it, but there is so much more. There are so many other pieces It's gonna be more about obviously lip sync audio pieces pantomime also prop usage background stuff I know it might seem like really ER. It's that old but there's so much good stuff in there So I'm gonna bring it back because it's so awesome But for now that is it and I will see you tomorrow for another FNA