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Exaggerating acting

Exaggerating acting

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Exaggerating acting

- [Instructor] In previous movies, I spoke about plussing out or sometimes known as exaggeration, which involves taking a scene, or an action, an expression, a pose, and adding something extra to it. Now it doesn't mean that the original scene is bad, it just means that maybe it could use a little extra. Now let's take an example of a good acting scene. So we have a nice little action of this character and he's doing a little turn, and ending up in a little glee pose, like he's just won something. So this is a nice action, it looks good, but how would we take this and plus the scene or exaggerate the scene and add a little bit of extra to it? Let's take a look. So this was the original scene. These are the four key poses and as you can see it's very simple. He starts left and ends on number 17 on the right. My frame rate for this is 24 frames per second, so if you want to try to copy this at your own frame rate then you need to add a little, few frames, maybe take it from 17 to 21…

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