Acting Reference Material

Due to using the tennis ball reference material so efficiently i decided to do the same for this project. For this project we have to recreate a choses acting scene that we filmed in class. I decided to do one which would challenge me. One of a man falling onto his knee's, thumping the floor with disbelief. I found this one of the most interesting and dynamic - the body goes from being upright and spread up low and crunched up into a ball on the floor. I also wanted to play around the the angling of the body shapes, e.g. how the elbows move the forearms compared to the top o the arms.

This is a link to the reference video i made - i used Adobe Premium to amend and add key frames and in between frames. I found the in between frames to be crucial after doing the man key frames. With out them it looked rather bionic.

Acting Reference Material

I did find the whole idea of recreating a acting piece to be rather daunting, but this process really helped me to get everything together and organised. It helped me decided what to start with first, and what did not need to be done until later. I think with out the reference material i would have really struggled to recreate this acting piece with out any timing help. I would have got the pace and timing of the key frames wrong, and it probably would have been smooth.

I also really like the angle that the action shot was filmed at - it really demonstrated the angles of the body and the way the body falls to the floor. Really interesting - i will upload the other camera angle of the action shot tomorrow morning.