Monday, November 14, 2011

Snow White

Snow White was made in 1937 and this movie helped launch Disney towards the success they have today. As the movie starts the main focus was on the queen as being in the spot light and self indulge. The elements of Mise en scene were relevant throughout the movie. When the Queen was looking into the mirror, this pushed your focus to the middle of the screen and on the queen. After the queen had instructed that Snow white be killed, you find the man lingering in on the distant hillside where the lighting made his seem as the bad guy with no face.   Throughout this movie you have multiple instances of these dominant features. Additionally you have lighting and scene changes from light happy times with singing to dark gloomy scary music with eyes staring at you and the trees seeming to reach out and grab you. Angles of the film and lighting were covered when the dwarfs were marching home and the shadows were 5 times the normal height.  Mystery was not seeing snow white bite the apple as well as not seeing the queen after she fell off the cliff. Knowing that evil was off the screen was indicated when the condors were looking over the cliff and their eyes were focused on the evil queen. This movie was a great representation of Mise en scene and animation.
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6 comments:

  1. WaldoNovember 16, 2011 at 6:42 AM

    I agree completely with your assessment of this movie. If Disney had not created this movie and used the scenes that he did then it could have hindered what cartoons are today. I think that the scene with Snow White eating the apple was one of the most important scenes in the movie because it stops us from seeing what is happening in the background even though we all know. The movie also picks up to a lot faster pace at that point as well.

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  2. rgcooperNovember 17, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    That is so true when you talk about Snow White eating the apple and not seeing what happed. Wow, have times changed in animated film. I never even thought about this scene till I read this blog.

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  3. TifaniNovember 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM

    I think they did a great job with portraying Snow White as being scared in the scene in the woods. With all the darkness and the eyes coming out of everywhere.

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  4. R.IngramNovember 17, 2011 at 1:42 PM

    I think Disney did a good job with what he had, and you can tell that he built more layers as he grew more confident in making full length films.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 17, 2011 at 5:16 PM

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  6. AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    Good post and good comments, everyone!

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