Music, Film, and Cartoon “Music and art are similar concepts as they are both trying to explain and express ideas through abstract mediums” (Gilbert, 2007). The similarities of these two are that they are creative and can be understood in many different ways. Almost all arts forms are influenced by music in many different ways. Film is one of the arts forms that are influenced by music. Music makes a film, a movie as well as an animated cartoon more interesting by bring out audiences’ emotion, introducing and setting a tone of a movie, dictating characters’ action, and misleading audiences.
The bright colours and matching of costumes to those seen in Bryan’s novel also make it good for analysing the Mise en Scene used in my chosen sequence. Comic/graphic novel iconography can be seen, in the opening of the sequence characters Kim, Scott, and Stephen are shown playing their instruments in a comic strip, each of them in individual panels. This is useful as it shows a close up of each of their reactions, providing the audience with insight into how the characters are feeling when Evil Ex #1 blasts through the wall. Here is a cut to Evil Ex #1 (Matthew Patel) flying through the air saying “Mr Pilgrim!” The speed he is travelling exaggerated by the use of ‘speed lines’. The ‘speed lines’ will have been created using special and visual effects such as CGI (elements of mise en scene).
‘Still Angela’ and ‘Ruby Moon’ try to expose the interior of a character, and how our emotions can manipulate our world around us, therefor the characterization has been done such to highlight this. The characters
Distinctively visual images crafted by the art of cinema have an immense power to fashion our sense of being within the immediate social paradigm. Through incorporating distinctively visual elements into the ‘mise-en-scene’ of the camera frame, the composer is able to convey diverse meanings and present a myriad of perspectives. Didactic in nature, Tom Tykwer’s thriller Run Lola Run and Christopher Nolan’s dramatic-action film The Dark Knight are exemplars of how elements of virtual real time can be effectively employed to communicate the thought process and the emotional intensity of individuals as they experience the limitations of their world and struggle to control their destiny. The cinematic vernacular in both texts evinces the immediacy and urgency of actions, accurately emulating the dynamic relationship between the individual and the reality of the surrounding environment. Moreover, both composers accentuate the magnitude of every fleeting moment in life, as a split-second decision can lead to multiple possibilities and alter the course of one's future.
Owing heavily to composers Cliff Martinez and dubstep superstar Skrillex, the film often exists in a dream like state. Their work is regularly utilized to juxtapose contrasting ideas and manipulate scenes and images that at first seem gaudy and simplistic. It is a multi-layered work that is rich in semiotic resources that communicates meaning and thus should leave the viewer with plenty to reflect upon. In this essay I’ll be focusing on two major scenes of the film and how, through the framework of timbre, the film uses music, speech and sound design to deliver meaning. Firstly I’d like to discuss a sequence where the director employs a non-linear way of piecing the story together, and how the use repetition and subtle manipulations of speech and phonetics are utilized.
From then on until today the quality of various animation techniques for live action films were dramatically increasing. So animation and live action films worked hand in hand from their days when they were created. Let’s take a closer look at how animation and live action films cooperate today. What challenges they have to take in order to have an appealing look. We can take as an example “Transformers” Live Action film (2007) (2) and compare it to “The Transformers: The Movie” (1986) 2D animation (3).
His pictures not only narrated exciting stories but also broke new ground. Many of his novelties were mechanical, such as his use of the long lens, his liking for shooting with multiple cameras, and his virtuosic editing. Other innovations were tied to his emphasis on details within his films, such as elaborate period costumes and sets, western music, stunning location shots, and detailed miniature sets. There’s not any reason to question Kurosawa’s word that all his films were Japanese and aimed solely at a Japanese audience. However, many writers on the topic saw camera movements or set ups that resembled John Ford, read about Kurosawa’s fascination for westerns and American pulp fiction, and added it up into a bland statement of Kurosawa being an essentially Western film maker.
German Expressionist films and Surrealist films are on the same page when it comes to the use of bold images and the unexpected. However, they vary when it boils down to the approaches they use to achieve this goal. In order to understand how these two movements captivated their audience, it is first best to examine how these two movements contrast each other. German Expressionism exploded with artistic activity that “followed the fall of the Kaiser and the founding of the Weimar Republic; making itself felt in all the arts, especially the cinema” (Mast, 2012). The dominating presence of German Expressionism was made possible through the movement’s exaggeration of mise-en-scene, which simply means everything that a scene is composed of.
Many composers represent conflict, even though you may not recognize it. Whether it’s a song about a breakup, a kid’s movie about princesses or a news article about last nights footy game.Conflict in the film freedom writers and the song pumped up kicks is shown by different techniques like camera shots, flashback, repetition and point of view. Freedom writers is heavily reliant on conflict as a theme, but to help put it into perspective uses a lot of techniques. One of these techniques is camera shots.In the film, camera shots are used to help the audience to understand the film better and make it interesting. You have to admit, a movie would be pretty boring if it only used one type of camera shot or angle the whole movie, right?One of the shots used in the film was the panning shot, used to show the conflict during the school fight, in one of Mrs. Gruwell’s first days.
“The complex rhythms of film resemble those of music and poetry, like poetry in particular, film communicates through imagery metaphor and symbol” (Boggs, Petrie, 2008). There are many ways that motion pictures, which many people consider to be an art form in itself, differ from other storytelling media, such as newspapers, television and radio, because of the uniqueness of it’s communication style. One way is through the constant motion provided in a film, something no other medium provides (Boggs, Petrie, 2008). Film can also address a never-ending list of subjects, such as the worlds created in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. With the help of special effects, talented actors and staging there is no limit to the story that can be expressed on film.