The Little Mermaid,Pocahontas,Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast are Disney legends. Legends that are best recalled by musical pieces, including passionate and in depth lyrics. Alan Menken's played a crucial role in the Disney Renaissance in the 1990’s. He not only produced over multimillion dollar musical hits, but also contributed to the idea of letting the music guide viewers with emotions and understanding a character's action. Therefore, the most influential musician is Alan Menken.…
This is what drove Walt on in his search of his dream. He made Disney what it is today, he never settled for anything less than amazing. He was considered by many of his colleagues to be a master storyteller and the animation department did not fully recover from his death until the period from 1989 to 1999 which is now known as the Disney Renaissance. Even on his deathbed Walt’s mind remained focused and imaginative, he was checked into…
The significance of Buster Keaton's view on technology left audiences and himself fascinated and pioneered with the movie technologies, and special effects. Two of Buster Keaton's films “Sherlock Jr“ and “ Steamboat Bill Jr” both use fantastic uses of special effects. For instance, Buster Keaton screened a movie within his movie which back then probably took a lot of technology to edit that into the screen in the movie “ Sherlock Jr”. Furthermore, another one of Keaton's great examples of using technology is when he used the special matte box in front of the camera lense to display nine projections of himself, playing nine different roles in the film “ The Playhouse”. In most of Keaton's films also he uses real vehicles such as trains, cars,…
For instance, in “Edward Scissorhands,” when Edward was walking outside with his scissors up, Burton used dolly/tracking. This technique makes it seem as if the viewer was right behind him every step of the way. It leads to a very dramatic scene and one people are left with a lasting memory. Also, in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” when the door opens, Burton uses a boom/crane. This allows it to be possible for viewers to see just how large the edible room seems.…
The second innovation that Walt discovered and applied it to his animations was not only the use of synchronized sound cartoon but specifically a metronome. “It was harmonica -player Jackson who had shown Walt a metronome and suggested that a pattern of musical beats could be mathematically related…
The Disney- fication of the story is amazing on how Disney changed the story and made it a movie. I wish I had superpowers like that. Disney’s version of Beauty and the Beast had a mood of cheerful and the stories mood was gloomy. There are many examples on how the plot changed the mood. First, the story version was very dark and hopeless.…
Robotics and computer based programs with any frame of intelligence has saturated our popular culture since the early twentieth century. Artificial Intelligence would either be our reckoning or create a convenient life in Utopia. Lost in Space, The Jetsons, and Star Trek all showcase life in the future, a future created around robotics and simulated computer programs. A prime example of this hopeful Utopian future was Walt Disney’s creation of Tomorrowland (PBS). It imbued the hopeful wish of a mechanized robotic lifestyle and nothing spoke more fervently of this than kitchens of the future.…
When Walt first opened the studio, he only had about two employs and struggled to keep his doors open. As a result of barely being able to keep the studio, Walt knew he and his team needed to create a master animation piece to help keep their studio alive. With the pressure of creating a perfect animation piece, Walt knew just what to do to keep his doors open; in order to make a massive idea, he had to create a miniscule mouse. Many know that Mickey Mouse is the icon for Walt Disney, but most don’t realize that Mickey wasn’t the first cartoon Walt created. Mickey was the most successful for…
He made commercials with cutout animation. Once Disney started to experiment more with cameras he opened up a business of his own. He asked Fred Harman who he met at the Ad Company to be his first employee. They began to show their cartoons called Laugh-O-Grams at the…
Griffith’s idea on the variety of different angle shots and different perspectives via camera movements, has without a doubt enhanced the new industry of film and cinema. These new feets of camera techniques has without a doubt influenced a new perspectives on altering and advancing this new branch of special effects. Special effects has now become a part of every film to feature. The special effects has without a doubt has impacted the popularity and importance of cinema. More specifically the special effects of using miniatures, matte paintings, stop motion, doubling, and more.…
The film’s form has constantly been improved over time to present the best possible picture on screen. The American film industry is the same as any other business, it has grown each year and adapted to culture shifts. This resulted in generous improvement of Hollywood films, as well as recessions in the industry. The beginning of film began in the late 1800s when capturing still images in quick succession soon turned into movies. The famous Lumiere brothers created the first hand-cranked machine called the “Cinematographe” that captured still pictures so it showed…
That caused a major breakthrough in the concept of time, because there was another dimension to consider, it was subjected to changes and it created a different type of engagement with the audience. With the moving image, sound came along, and that suggested and engagement not only with the vision but with the hearing. Therefore another sense was included, and made that component of moving image, to a great extent more attractive.…
The concept of animation has allowed Walt Disney to build a powerful empire that is still around today. “Disney magic launched an animation revolution that boomed with Pixar, Dreamwork, and Disney’s own Frozen.” (How The Little Mermaid Cued Disney Animation Renaissance) Colored animation all began with a guy named Walt Disney. Disney has been a television producer, showman, American motion picture animator, and even later on the owner and created of Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California. Disney has been very…
Soon after the invention of photography, people began to speculate what it would be like to capture moving images. Early on, the idea was pursued by scientists wishing to study motion through photography. There were several innovators around the world in the 1800s, when cinema technology began: among them Thomas Edison, Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and many others. Eadward Muybridge was one of the first to use photographs to capture motion through an experiment to see if a horse ever had all four legs up off the ground at once while in a sprint, and this led to the invention of the zoopraxiscope. Another particularly innovative device was created by Thomas Edison and his assistant W.K.L. Dickinson called the Kinetoscope, which displayed a spinning series of images in a box that appeared to move when looked into.…
Just like Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney created Mickey in 1928 at the Walt Disney Studios. Mickey Mouse has become the most recognizable cartoon character. Mickey Mouse was in his first cartoon in Steamboat Willie. It was also one of the first cartoons that had sound.…