Duck Amuck Movie Essay

The segment from “Duck Amuck”(Jones,1953) that I will be analyzing is when the artist appointed Daffy as a pilot(5:46). The artist draws him sitting as pilot in a red airplane, flying through a blue sky with white cloud outlines. As Daffy’s making circles through the sky, the camera moves forward & shows the artist drawing a mountain. The camera then moves forward once again,while an off screen air crash is heard. Daffy then re-appears on-screen with the body of his airplane missing, with him hovering under the glass screen and holding onto the wheel. He then realizes his predicament & moves the glass screen back & jumps out. He pulls onto the string of his bag, releasing a white parachute. As he comes down, the artist’s pencil then comes on screen & erases his parachute, replacing it with an anvil. The camera is still moving at the same slow pace as before, focusing directly ahead as it …show more content…
Film language ranges from sound, lighting, symbolism, editing, and etc. Through these conventions, my perception of “film” has changed greatly. The first time I watched Duck Amuck, I wasn’t paying attention to the fine embedded details. I would focus on the story & the comedic aspect of it. I never payed attention to the scene cuts or asked myself whether the transitions were smooth enough. It wasn’t until after I did the reading & watched the film a second time, that I realized how much work was put into one individual scene. I took immediate notice of all the conventions shown during the introductory portion of the scene. Originally I thought it was computer generated images (CGI) that were forming all of the transitions, but I then realized that CGI was nonexistent during the creation of the film. This meant that a person had to draw the same image, with a slight change to it, to not only form a smooth transition between frames, but also give this false illusion of