Performance needs to be done.
- Slow walk
- Relax arms
- Simple movement
- Work against the cliche
- Keep close together
Cha cha moves – look them up of how people move.
- Step back and forwards
- Step sideways side to side
- Roll spine, thrust and make drastic changes for performance quality.
- Notes to rerecord
- We will have three weeks to animate
- Break down your reference into manageable chunks
So I have decided to go with the clip from Bruce Almighty. I thought this one had a lot of room to play with as in the film Kevin Baxter doesn’t do much acting while saying “I do da cha cha like a sissy girl.” I wanted to over play this like my character was being serious about being really good at the cha cha. This juxtaposes the original scene as seen below.
Here is my first attempt at my reference for my performance. I tried many times to make the dance moves fit to what he was saying and finally landed on this recording. I send my video to Luke to get feedback.