(Peter Parker and Miles Morales making an escape from Oscorp - credit: Sony Pictures Animation)
STAGING
Spider-Verse has really effective staging and camera angles across the entire film; an example that stands out to me in this particular clip is right at the beginning. There's nothing fancy or flashy going on, it's just the two Spider-Men surrounded by unknowing Oscorp scientists. The camera pans out, revealing just how many there are. The employees of Oscorp have been antagonised up until this point, so they are, essentially, the "bad guys". Revealing just how many there are, compared to how small the Spider-Men feel in comparison, tells the audience that they're about to see the two either successfully evade every single scientist... or preparing them for a grand fight scene.
TIMING
When Miles and Peter are both running away from the scientists, they're animated in a fairly unconventional way. They're both animated on twos, as are most characters in the film when there's no giant action set-piece. But the interesting thing is that they're both animated with an offset to each other. Every frame has a new position, but only for one of them. Miles will change one frame, but not the next; but when Miles doesn't change poses, Peter does.
SECONDARY ACTION + ANTICIPATION
One action Miles performs in the same shot is throwing the bagel at a scientist. This can be seen as a secondary action; his primary action is his running, which is a constant during this shot. However, the bagel throw is something he does on top of the throwing. We can also see anticipation in this action, as he winds up the throw, bringing his arm in, only to swing it back out with a twist of the body.
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