 Welcome back to the acting analysis and tips by animators and today we're going to take a look at the movie run Love this movie a lot of cool stuff. I have a lot of sequences I want to talk about before I do if you're new to this channel Hi, my name is JD and I do acting analysis like these I do animation analysis clips I do product reviews reviews lectures feedback. I post all kinds of things So as always this is the YouTube pitch feel free to browse around if you like it subscribe You don't want to subscribe. That's fine, too It helps my channel grow if you do though, but that's it for the pitch Let's go to the sequences first up. We have this the beginning we have her coming in and all I want to show is what? These characters on the side are doing they're waiting to turn towards the door She comes in and they realize she's coming in and she is not aware her of the incoming bad news and you can see how Turns away. It's ready. You can see the other characters here hands together Getting ready Kind of sort of turning away you can see this how they turn just because they know it's coming You can see all of that so that the whole focus that ends up being on her getting closer to the impending bad news So it's not just about the main character. Obviously this should be focused when you animate But you can have side characters you can have props every we have that can kind of re-emphasize a certain moment Or also kind of prepare the audience for something else This all kind of gives us an impression of something is about to happen Which then happens right there and actually we continue with this she gets forward to that And this is something where this could be your pants, but I'm sure again This is a very serious subject matter But you can always take something serious and obviously make it totally different for your animation in this case This would be her seeing something reacting something what I like about that is that you have this long progression How she reacts and then as the camera goes down it reveals what she's reacting to and you can have a bit of a focus change where She's in focus little babies in focus and then the next thing I want to show it is all part of some sequences that She's all happy. She sees the baby Then she says is she going to be okay, and when she says that you can see that she waits and waits and waits And no one is saying anything in the background because the baby is not going to be okay And you can see that change, but she realizes wait no one's answering this can't be good and Head turn so for you. This is something where if you do have lip sync and the character is asking a question You don't have to stop the shot once the lip sync is done This is something I'm repeating a lot in this series and in this case You can have the character wait wait wait and then react because no one is responding to her question I think this could be also really good addition to your shot where it's not just lip sync But then you go into your creative pantomime acting because that's not part of the lip sync next up It's totally different and it's finger acting and I like this how we have that box first, right? This tells us oki tissues feel better. This must be something bad or sad And then you have the hand coming in the hand Bringing the box into the character like how we follow this box is also important and it's all about finger acting here I love this how she is Moving all this you can see that little wiggle in the fingers as she grabs the box and grabs the paper here It's tissue paper. You can see how much fingers are moving. She's very nervous There's a lot of agitation there and then she continues into actually pushing this away and in the line She says something I'm paraphrasing. It's gonna be okay. I can fight through this It's gonna be okay, but you can see all the nervousness you can see all that business And what I like about this is that when she says I'm gonna be okay You can see all that you know all that movement here the fingers and she has this I can fight through this It's as if now all of that is gone. It's very decisive Fist and gesture or just kind of a pose. I'm gonna be okay at the moment. She says that she goes into That and that so this is that short moment of I'm gonna be okay I can do this. It's very decisive. They're separate their fish on the table. I can do this But within half a second she says again, but I don't know I don't know and then you can see that all the nervous This comes back to the fingers. I think this is really cool I'm not sure if you want this on your reel just the finger acting type of thing But I like this in addition to her shot just as always every single detail counts So think about that when you have characters where you see the fingers What could you put in there to kind of emphasize certain moments or in this case? You know resolve and she has decided and then she breaks that by doing this also like how this continues By the way, we continue here. They're grabbing tissues. I like how they go about it, right? So we follow this let's go forward here and this person grabs one and hands it over then this character grabs one Brings it over and goes nah, I need more. It's gonna be sad. I need more again Just kind of we don't need to see the face We don't need to hear anything, but we understand what's going on there and then for the whole contrast with everybody is grabbing This and it's sad and then they're talking about all of this this character Actually doesn't take it but brings it over to the main character. And here's the reveal I'm on the phone. I don't care what any of you are saying and I love that and this movie has a lot of just a Lot of reveals camera moves and things where we are seeing a reveal of a specific situation or a character There's more about that, but I love that too where then we can see the character and then she talks about blah blah blah But think about that if you do have a camera move you can use that to reveal certain things for comedic value to show contrast how everybody is involved in this and being sad And not involved at all because she's thinking about something totally different And I'm actually going to continue with this this is later on where she says it's going to be just fine But blah blah blah my daughter is just fine. Then it's this gesture at the end That and I like this because it's everybody is using the Kleenex. They're all they're all sad They're all needed because they're crying and first is I don't need this here go take it I'm gonna be just fine go on and again This is if you have a prop and especially if other characters have used this prop in a specific way You can use this in a complete opposite way whatever you want to do But it can re-emphasize her stance of I don't care. I don't need this I'm strong my daughter is strong here take this move on. I just like that moment now moving forward a little bit as we are revealing The daughter she's here preparing food. You can see this all healthy all healthy And then I mean it's previously you can see that the daughter is in a wheelchair But this is a very subtle thing But you can see that obviously she is stuck in that wheelchair And she can just sit and there's that extra moment of the legs and of that's intentional But to me kind of re-emphasize the contrast between the two characters, right? They are kind of facing each other or facing off depending on you know how the movie progresses there But you can see the contrast that she can move her legs She can it's always kind of sets up what the the The advantages and disadvantages are of the character then again also an advantage But I will not spoil too much just yet So not that it is huge But you can still think about that as you have a character and if you want to think about contrast But to me is always when you have two or more characters you want to introduce contrast You want to use something where they are different and this is very subtle with underneath It's right close to the edge of the frame, but it's still something that is different compared to this character So just think about those details. How can you add things be it in gestures and movements and poses and props? That'll give us some interesting contrast so that they're not all the same in mushy And we don't we don't really understand where the differences are This sequence goes into what I said before about reveals and clear cuts and imagery like I like this a lot This movie has a lot of that where you can see all the props very busy lots of stuff here She's studying clear pose clear composition. It's all really nice. Then she hears something you can see this, huh? Then you have clear pan over to male Then clear character with this. I'm bringing the male Then you have that where she is gone and I like this a lot where it's kind of you have this moment of One you have the character. I see this two. This is something that I really want three She is so excited that we pan where she's already leaving the frame to get to the male So this can be used in a certain way like this This is a shot by brice mcgovern and you can see this in a scrub forward where it's all about this reveal here You got the ha I'm strong Creature wakes up. He realizes wait. This is not a good idea and then We pan over to this kind of that idea of you can use it exit of a character So you don't see anymore where you have to Reveal the character as you follow with the camera and with that you can go into that joke where the character is really really far away Just like in here when we see this and we pan over to show that the character is so excited We don't even see that she is there turning around getting over it just re-emphasizes the moment of I'm there I'm there. I'm going to go so if you are considering camera moves and reveals I think this is really clean in terms of one two three four five times of all the steps The progression until a funny ending there and speaking of which now This is getting into spoiler territory as I'm progressing now All the things I'm going to show will reveal more of the story and the characters So if you warn this is going to ruin certain things if you haven't seen the movie So she's on the phone and she's asking about the color Of the pill because all she sees is the gray and the green and she asks Well, what is the color and then instead of hearing the person on the phone saying what color it is it cuts to this They don't say red, but we know it's red because it's a it's a really nice cut where it's occupying the same space And it's a very bold color change and then we go to her Realize she is the one that's handling the color She is the culprit and it goes over to this where she dropped the phone We can hear the person. Hello. Hello. Hello, and then it cuts to her Being defeated I can't believe this again not that this is huge in terms of something you could use for your real in terms of character animation But this movie just has a lot of really Fun cuts and clear imagery with really clean single shots of props or characters again Something for you to think about if you want to go beyond with your shots Or you can do a short story for something in terms of composition and cuts I just wanted to show that because I like it and here's another one where this is the beginning of the movie Where it will reveal the baby and then it cuts towards the ending of the movie where we can see her again It's very very similar and as it goes forward it will reveal the character here again spoiler But something I wanted to show something I like a lot when we have repeat images or foreshadowing or a preparation Whatever it is, but I like that and the movie is full of that stuff and one more So in this case she wants to figure out what the pills are so you can see this. There's a lot of action She has to go through all the characters. She's herring through all the crowds here And it's again something where we cut to mundane things. It's kind of quiet and then Reveal the character including the music which I think I can't play here But I love this it comes in a lot of energy there and as she goes through you can see foreground elements giving more energy She goes this way Foreground element goes this way creates a lot of energy and then we can see Wipe reveal to a long line that makes her wait and again, I love that It's that that big big element here that hides everything for a more Extra push on the reveal. I like that and then as she realizes this is not a good idea You can see all the the fluttering the thought process there You can see your eyes and the eye lids here lots of little half blinks Oh man and to re-emphasize that she looks We have the main character the main person here for while everybody's waiting She's on the cane here. She's pushing on the cane. It's just the imagery of this is an old person We don't see the face because this tells us enough that the hunched over position this with the cane This is going to take a long time because this is an old person again A lot of really clear imagery right off the bat which for you again goes into this clear posing And silhouette you can see also the bright color bright color in terms of the white And in the darker color for really clean silhouettes. I just love that again We're getting more and more into spoiler territory. This is a great moment where We think she's on the phone right because she has her arm up here and she talks to herself I mean to someone right, but she's talking. She's alone and with that arm up We are thinking well. She must be on the phone and then as she keeps talking She does this And then she keeps talking too. She realizes wait, why does she keep talking? Oh, and then she does this and she's got the little face and it's a longer sequence But you realize that she is rehearsing. She's rehearsing. What is she what she is about to say? And that's such a cool moment. I love that. We as an audience we we're thinking well It must be the phone because she's by herself talking with that pose and then this change reveals Oh, she's actually not oh She's pretending she's rehearsing More of a reveal of how far this character is going to go to do whatever again I'm going to say too much spoilers But this is really cool in terms of expectations what the audience will think and how you subvert that and how you change that And how it changed the whole situation how it changes how we perceive this character Just a cool little moment there. This is a bit more traditional thing where this could be a Kind of a gear change as a classic exercise in animation She's doing this as you can see She gets frustrated and goes back and she is not able to do whatever she needs to do On the laptop again, not too many spoilers and this is a classic thing Whereas she goes, ah, there's a lot of agitation, right? You can see head move over there Our move goes over there. There's movement with the fingers Like there's a lot of movement here, right? She goes back down It's over and now the arm comes back up here a lot of things and here's the contrast after all of this You can see some movement in the hands Eye darts then she realizes wait, I have an idea and Right there and that's the thing I want to show So if you have a thought process you can find a way to show Contrast in terms of I have movement head is moving body is moving arms are moving hands are moving fingers Eye darts all that stuff and now you want to show wait. I made a change And stop all the movement Now this might again this might be basic for more advanced animators But if you are doing this as a student think about that think about the contrast in posing But also contrast in movement because you don't see too much here in terms of Legs or anything else all we see is this So what could you do to show that there's a change a change in thoughts? So you have all of that you can imagine She's thinking a lot and that is externalized in her movements and the hand moves and eye darts She's processing things a lot of movement and now I have found an idea. It's a singular thought and that Makes the character stop everything and then you can see this. Oh blink. Yeah I can do this slight progression and movement Going forward to the laptop to do something else now We're really getting into spoiler territory kind of towards the end But she is talking to the doctors. They won't let her to her daughter There's a bit of a problem and what I love about this is this whole setup So she is there incapacitated. Here's the nurse And we can see the mom comes in at this point. We know that She's not a good person a lot of problems between these two So she comes in as the worried mother And that triggers quite a reaction in the daughter, but she can't do anything right? She's stuck She can't say anything. It's a horrible position to be in seeing that the Dangerous mother shall I name it like that? The dangerous mother is right there. You can see that that reaction Oh, no, no, no and then I love this part. This is why I'm going to show it to you So she looks at the daughter And has that compassionate hand on the glass. I wish I could help you and then You see the turn towards The nurse and it's almost creepy how she slowly goes eyes first over there But it's still a broader move with the hand and then as she looks at that she realizes Huh, I can do this. I love that. It's almost as if her eyes are sneaking. This just makes it kind of schemish Oh, I could do something here and that Definitely triggers this reaction. Oh, no. Oh, no, you can see the breathing here gets more intense And then she exits to do whatever she needs to do and then the camera will turn and then reemphasize that and so on and so on The really really cool moment and for you really is it's less is more and there's a animation This is not complicated in terms of the mechanics, right? It's just a head turn and then just a dart I don't love this that that whole thing of lot of body movement the arm and then What's over there? Oh, I could do this and to me. I can say this to me. This is like the eyes are sneaking She doesn't want to do, you know, too much noise any type of movement She just has a little quick thought process of oh, oh, yeah I don't love that. So a lot of things covering acting choices But also a lot of moments in terms of composition and camera reveals because as you are continuing your animation journey You might be really good at bottom mechanics and all the acting stuff And now you want to open up the shots you want to use cameras You want to use cameras to give the character more room to go somewhere to reveal something So I thought this was a really cool movie in terms of clear imagery and having very clear camera moves Like I said to reveal certain things that tell us something about what the character wants Something that a character sees something the character reacts to or something that we as an audience are supposed to react to Where comedy is heightened and so on and so on. I thought as a as a whole movie I really really like this and I'm curious if you watch this Let me know in the comments what you thought about it Apparently it did really well on hulu. 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