Scene Analysis
So today I have established some scenes I want to do an analysis of, I have selected ones that captured me with the performances of the characters. Some are more action based and others are more conversational. This mixture, and overall exercise, will help me to analyse performances, both acting and animated. It is crucial to get this mixture because analysing actors allows me to see how they have used their bodies to convey a performance and animation is where the animator has used loose human reference to influence their own animated characters.
I'll give a brief description of why I have picked each clip.
Bugs Bunny and Sam:
This animation revolves around the conflict of Bugs Bunny and Sam (as is often the case with Bugs Bunny). There is plenty of action between the two characters allowing for a lot of reaction analysis, especially when Sam points his guns at Bugs Bunny.
Pappy's Puppy (1955):
This animation if much of the same concept, the conflict of two characters.
Toshiro Mifune: Actions speak louder than words - 3:27:
This scene just gripped me when I watched it. It consists of 3 actors but the tension in it captured my attention.
Prince Hal is summoned to Court - The Hollow Crown: Henry IV Part 1 - BBC Two:
Jeremy Irons speech in this scene fully utilises body language. There is one part where he is making a point and his head moves sharply forward as he is asserting his point. So body language is the key aspect here.
Richard III (Benedict Cumberbatch) dreams of the throne - The Hollow Crown: Episode 2 - BBC Two:
This one focuses on facial mechanics. This is a short scene with the actor talking to the camera but there are lots of small movements in his face that help to make his point. This of course goes back to what I read up about in my proposal, the actor just has to think an emotion and their faces can convey it.
Summary:
In want to annotate these videos while keeping the sounds but at the moment I have two options for annotating them...
GIFS: I can make GIFS from the videos and take them into Photoshop and annotate their then make it back into a GIF. This method though will mean no sound...so it will only be used if all others fail.
Downloading Video from YouTube: This option is the only one I can think of that the person I got this idea from has done. I can download and convert the YouTube videos into MP4 then use that to annotate on in Photoshop/Premiere...This though does not seem like it is ethically sound for my honours project.
I will need to ask a lecturer at some point today hopefully to get their opinion. The only reason I need to ask them is because the person the idea came from said that they got taught it in third year...so surely there must be a way of doing it for my honours project.
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