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Sunday 23 February 2014

Film Review: Frozen

Film Review: Frozen

A learning point from this film would be to look at the detail of the animation  

This new Disney film has been created with a use of extreme detail in mind.

The characters - the detail for characters would have been spread over all areas, the way they look, costumes, movement in their body and facial expressions and also the way they sound.

The characters of Anna and Elsa have a similarity in facial structure and movement to the character of Rapunzel in Disney's 50th animated feature film "Tangled" but has expanded since then to be more life like. for example in the song "Love Is An Open Door" the movements between Anna and Hans mainly in the shadow section become so life like which in my opinion has it's pro's and con's,

Pro's being the development of Disney's technology and making animation close to life. But the Con's being it shouldn't be too life like because it can ruin the illusion of the story and for some people that might use films such as this for escapism and it could change there opinion of the film.
Setting - The amount of detail used for the setting would be on a wide scale because of the size of each location e.g. the city of Arendelle would have detail of the castle (it's doors, windows, turrets, the walls, inside detail, of the paintings, furniture etc.) it's grounds and the surrounding area which changes for both seasons in the film to Summer and Winter.
There is also immaculate detail in the castle that Elsa creates mainly as it grows out of the ground and the detail of inside from the ceiling to the floor.
Ice and snow - one of the best sections the show the detail of the ice would be when Elsa reviles her power at her coronation and creates sharp ice sculptures to show her anger and the detail of the frozen fountains which was clean and crisp to have a realistic look.

As a review as an opinion I found the film one of the best Disney animated princess film's for a long time apart from "Tangled". I would say the story line had real emotion towards it and all the characters had there own unique personality. I think everybody can relate to each character and is a brilliant family film which has happiness, humor and sadness all rolled into one.

Frozen won a BAFTA for Best Animated film this year and is nominated for two Oscars in Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song - "Let It Go."

Wednesday 12 February 2014

My Personal Journey Through Cinema

When thinking about what I should do for my personal journey, I found it difficult because we only had 2 minutes, and I really couldn't explain everything I wanted to say. About all the different films that have inspired me though the years.

So I thought why not start from the beginning...

My Personal Journey starts with some of the best memories I have from these films, how they used to make me happy, laugh, want to dance around and want to be every character in every film I had seen.

So I wanted to start my Personal Journey with... DISNEY!!!!!


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Disney was a huge part of my childhood and still is now, I feel like i'm betraying Disney if I haven't seen a film. which I am slightly now because there are some I still haven't seen like "Frozen" which I really want to see.

Every time I watch Disney it's make me feel so happy and I can just get away from life whether I'm having a good day or not.

The reason I like Disney so much is because nearly everybody has a happily ever after and the animation, the characters and the story lines work brilliantly to draw there audiences in.

I am a big fan of Disney princess films, and they were my favourite when I was growing up, some of them still are. 

The Disney film that has stayed the closest to me throughout all my life is "The Little Mermaid".
The reason I like this film so much is because she follows her dreams and having this inspiration from this film has helped me to think about all the different things I would like to do with my life, and being a part of film was one of them,  and since starting Stafford University I have learn't so much even though I'm still in my first year.