ANIMEX - Ed Hooks' Feedback

So, here I am. Sitting in the classroom looking at what work the students are showing ahead of me. And one of the students show an animation where there is a character that gives the impression that it does not want to be in the scene.

Ed Hooks gives a short lecture about this specific issue.
"The character does always want to be in the scene" the character should not give the impression that he or she wants to leave. At this point I'm thinking "oh shit" he's not going to like mine then. As I thought it would be interesting that there is conflict and all in my scene I am breaking this rule.
I did initially have the idea that the woman does like the man and is just kind of flirting, but without the facial animation this does not come across and Ed of course comments on this.

We are also accompanied by another tutor, Siobhan Fenton who does actually suggest what my initial idea is, have her look at him with flirty eyes.

It can work but if she wants to leave the man, Ed suggests that they should not touch.
Obviously, I don't want to make such a drastic change to my scene as it would mean starting over and quite frankly, I don't know what my characters should do then as it changes my whole concept.

It is too bad I did not have my facial animation ready for this because my idea does not come across. Light's on, but no one is home.
Even though I'm not going to change the whole concept, the feedback was helpful and I learned from it which is knowledge I'll bring with me in the future.

I also showed my Presenter animation and I got some really helpful feedback on the part where he goes "five-thousand-dollars" as this is the part I'm really struggling with.
Ed reacted to how quickly the character stands back up after saying the sentence the first time. Instead, keep him in the same pose making him look at his audience to make sure they got his point. This was a great suggestion which I will implement with this animation as soon as I return to it.

I wish I had gotten further on my animation but so far I have barely slept the 2 last days and since the animaiton part of Animex is starting, I will now put my animation aside for a little while as I'm completely burned out and want to enjoy the rest of Animex.