I did a class on animation performance, which was essentially an acting class to get me thinking about the way I make my characters behave on screen. Instead of using dialogue we were only allowed to say numbers which made us think more about the way we said things and the gestures we used along side these.
The brief:
Myself and Dan did a scene where he was my boss asking me to get certain tasks done; as his employee I wanted to appear keen and like I understood, however when he turns his back I start to unwravel with the stress of the situation.
Because of the nature of the task, I had to think more about over exagerrating my facial expression and tone of voice and was a helpful excercise to do by eliminating the dialogue which a lot of the time can become the sole focus of a characters performance.
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