The Influence Of The Film Zootopia

use the cinematography to add to the movies message. Throughout the film, the directors keep a main

Indisputably, Tim Burton has one of the world’s most distinct styles when regarding film directing. His tone, mood, diction, imagery, organization, syntax, and point of view within his films sets him apart from other renowned directors. Burton’s style can be easily depicted in two of his most highly esteemed and critically acclaimed films, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Burton ingeniously incorporates effective cinematic techniques to convey a poignant underlying message to the audience. Such cinematic techniques are in the lighting and editing technique categories. High key and low key relationships plus editing variations evinces the director’s elaborate style. He utilizes these cinematic techniques to

The creation and consumption of films are a common favorite pastime for many people and have been for hundreds of years, but while some films can seem deceptively simple, many elements go into creating a scene, much less an entire movie. Directors use these elements which include, but are not limited to style, mood, composition and special effects to create a product that we often don’t acknowledge without looking deeper into the film. These components together are called Mise en Scène (Ebert). Of course, film can be enjoyed leisurely but there are so many more aspects of film to be explored and analyzed such as the composition of camera movement, lighting, color, sounds and music. In this case, I chose to analyze the “Redrum” scene from the renowned film, The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick. In this scene, Danny Torrence, a five year old boy wanders around his mother’s room with a knife in hand, muttering the word “Redrum” over and over again before scrawling it across the door. I feel that a lot of this scene’s mood and style relies heavily on the camera work of the scene, the lighting and colors, and the music incorporated into the segment.

The signs of the time are also shown through the use of specific camera shots, which humble the characters and show their frailty. Long Shots, in particular, are used to exemplify the smallness of the characters (without power) in the vastness of the world around them. In the scene in which the

When a person watches a movie, and a scene with dim lighting shows up on the screen, that usually makes them feel tense and scared about what is going to happen next. Directors use cinematic techniques to convey feelings or connect with the viewer. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses flashbacks, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, and high key and low key lighting to show a characters’ thoughts or past, create the mood of a scene, create suspense, and let the viewers know about the characters’ as if they personally knew each other.

This shows that Pilbara is a very desert-like and country land. The film uses under shots to make viewers feel small and over shots to make the viewer feel big. An undershot in the movie is when the men place bets on how fast Red Dog can eat. This makes us feel intimidated and scared and small. Over the shoulder shots are used when characters are talking and close-ups on the faces when they are talking. This lets viewers see the reactions and expressions on the characters face when listening and talking. Medium shots are used to show viewers a bigger area of the targeted character. Long shots are used to show the character and where they are. It shows viewers the landscape and gives people an idea of where the character is at that point of time. Close up shots are used to focus on the characters face and to show emotions in detail. This is especially needed in a movie like Red Dog because you have a character who cant speak and the only way to show his reactions is through facial expressions and body language. Eye level Angle is used to show things in the characters perspective at their eye level hence the name. It's really good for what they call a real life affect. This is an example of Red Dogs view its good to see how big it looks to

In addition to panning and zooming, DePalma also utilizes long takes to show how the American dream is for everyone. The average shot length, or the average of the length of all the shots in a film, in

Long takes and camera movements usually rely on each other. Frame mobility helps to break the long shot into significant smaller units (Bordwell and Thompson, 2008, p. 215). With the use of camera movement, this shot can be broken down into three parts – Lisa and Lieutenant Leopold walking towards their family members, where the camera tracks them, Lieutenant Leopold breaking the news to his uncle, where the camera stays static, and Lisa’s parents questioning Lisa about her refusal, where the camera tracks in from a long shot to a mid-close up shot.

To be told one cannot do something because they are the wrong gender or race should not be an issue in today’s world. However, this rather unfortunate problem is very prevalent in modern society, so much in fact, that Disney created an animated film based on the subject. In their 2016 film, Zootopia, Disney addressed this issue in the form of an allegory of a rabbit pursuing her dream career: becoming a police officer. The issue with the main character, Judy Hopps’s, dream, is she not considered the right species to be a police officer. Sharing a world with other, way larger mammals, such as bears, wolves, elephants and buffalos, many people repeatedly tell Judy she is too small or cute to become an officer. The film also offers a second character, Nick Wilde, a fox, whose story shows the difficulty of growing up under negative labels based on his species, just as many people grow up under labels based on their race.

In the early 1900’s silent films amazed audiences with images, later talkies impressed with sound, today we have 3D. As technology continues to evolve so too will film genres. Genres, while having some shared characteristics, also differ in terms of stylistic devices used. For instance, the dramatic film “The Notebook” effectively uses color to reinforce theme and has plausible performers as the two main protagonists.

Tim Burton uses establishing shots to create relationships between characters. An example from Edward Scissorhands is when Peg is driving back from the mansion, we see how bright and colorful her neighborhood is and how much Edward contrasts from that. The third type of shot is a long shot. Tim Burton uses long shots to create suspense. When Vicky walks into the museum, a long shot is used to show how she is vulnerable.

Anyhow, temporal relationships between shots are away to be creative in a plot to make you go back to certain events that happened in the beginning of the film. For instance, having a flashback is used when taken back in time. “Flashback (the interruption of chronological plot time with a shot of series of shots showing an event that happened

This paper will focus on the film techniques used by Cameron in his three most known movies, Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009), and Terminator series. Mise-en-scene according to John Gibbs is used in film studies in the discussion of visual style. Translated literally it means “To put on stage”, but for the purpose of students, it is defined as the contents of the frame and the way they are organized (p 5). In addition, a director’s style can be identified only through the arrangement and orchestrations of the film’s mise-en-scene (Nelmes, 425).The films Titanic, Avatar, and Terminator series were successful

Traditionally, animated films have been made for and consumed by children, with the plotlines and themes being relatively basic and forthright. However, recent years have seen the release of animated films that explore significantly more adult themes and thought provoking ideas. Perhaps the most confronting example of adult themes in an animated film is in 2016’s ‘Zootopia’. The film forces viewers to think about concepts such as racial segregation, nature vs. nurture and the debilitating effect of stereotyping. Although Zootopia features anthropomorphic animals, it is easy to draw a connection between the film’s prey vs. predator narrative and racial divide in our own society.

On March 16, 2016, Walt Disney Pictures released what some critics call “a movie that stands with the finest of the Disney classics.” Zootopia, in summary, is about Judy Hopps dreaming of being the first bunny police officer, and when she moves to Zootopia- a city where animals live in harmony- that dream becomes a reality. When Judy partners up with a sly fox named Nick Wilde to solve a crime, a Zootopian wide scandal reveals that predators and prey might not actually live in harmony. On the surface, Zootopia is a beautifully animated children’s story, but on closer examination Zootopia exaggerates the issues of racial profiling and “The War on Drugs.”