MAXI DIAZ Animation blog
When performing a dialogue, anticipation plays a very important role for the viewer not the little nuances of the performance is lost. As we saw in a previous post, anticipation is a warning viewers about what will happen next. The video we have below belongs to Pulp Fiction. In it we see John Travolta and Uma Thurman in dialogue spectacularly acted. If you notice, before pronouncing any sentence, actors always perform a preliminary gesture drawing breaks and moments of silence in dialogue. That gesture functions as anticipation and keeps you alert the viewer before the actor delivers his sentence, thus avoiding all the important nuances of the performance is lost during the dialogue. When I speak of gesture I not only mean the facial, body and hands also play an important role. Each of these gestural anticipations contain information about what the character has in mind and is directly related to what the character will say next. I invite you to see the video the first time to enjoy the performance and from that moment I analicéis in depth to see the possibilities that this type of advance when making a dialogue.
