Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs

For journal number three I watched Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this movie started to be released in 1907 as a silent film but was really released from Disney in 1933. This story is about a young princess on the run from her evil stepmother. While she is escaping from the wicked queen she comes across seven dwarfs that invite her into their cottage in the woods where they cook, clean, work and sing. The seven dwarfs Sleepy, Happy, Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy and Doc all try to help her from the evil queen. When the queen finds where Snow White is she arrives with a poisonous apple which will put her to sleep when Snow White takes just one bite out of the apple, and once she does, she is later awoken by prince charming and they live happily ever after.
The topic I choose to write about was music in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The composer for the music in this movie was Frank Churchhill, who won an award for best musical score for this movie. He was inspired by Franz Schubert. All the songs are very original and fit for the scene that it is playing in, they are either upbeat for happy scenes or dramatic music is played for more dramatic scenes. Two of my favorite songs are “Whistle While you Work” and “Heigh-Ho”. I like these songs because they are fun and add that touch to the movie. Both of the songs have to do with what is going on at the time. Whistle while you work is played while Snow White and the dwarfs are cleaning the house and making a meal. Just like most of the other songs, this song correlates and was made for that specific scene and not just random music. The song Heigh-Ho is played while the dwarfs are on their way to work in the mine. Throughout the song they sing "And off to work we go", explaining what they are doing. Overall, the music in this film make this film an instant classic because its songs are so easily recognizable to todays and "yesterdays" youth. When it first came out the music was well renowned among critics across the nation. Churchhill did a very good job capturing all the right "feelings" this movie has to offer. Also, Larry Morey, Paul J. Smith and Leigh Harline contributed to the musical score of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt Disney Studios created a masterpiece.

Mise-en-scene

Citizen Kane had very good ways of using mise-en-scene in this film. The costume and make-up played a very good role in this, they helped describe the movie a alot. The comtumes were good in showing people social classes and how wealthy people were. The make-up used was alot good showing if people were sad, angry, or happy. For example, right after Susam almost died, they showed her looking very sick by using specific make-up. The scenes were also very important to the film and also showed people's wealth, especially Kane. His house was so big and beautiful it was one of the most important settings to this film. The part that most described his wealth inside that house is when they showed all of this very valued possessions in the end of the movie after his death, which really showed how wealthy he was. The lighting also had very much impact of the film, especially when Kane was signing the Declaration of Principles. Another example of lighting in this movie is with Mr. Thompson. He is always in the shadow and we never really get to see him, I think that has a lot to do with the plot of this film. The mise-en-scene is very important in this movie and impacts it in many ways.

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, is one of the most popular animated features right now, still. There were many people that put a lot of time into this movie to make it one of the best. There were many people involved in the technical aspects of this film in all of the catagories. Such as the sound and visual department, camera and electrical animation, and production design. The screen play of this movie was done by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds and produced by Graham Walters.
Finding Nemo has a very imvolving story, good comedy, solid characters, and great visuals. The title to this movie, Finding Nemo, is pretty self-explanitory is order to what this movie is about. Nemo, with the voice of Alexander Gould, and Marlin, with the voice of Albert Brooks, live in the Great Barrier Reef. The problem starts when their family, mom and children, are wiped out by a shark leaving Marlin, now a very paranoid father, and his son Nemo to live all alone. While Nemo is off to school, he gets captured by a sea diver and taken to Sydney, Australia into a dentist office to live in a tank with other fish, whom he soon befriends.While Marlin starts the seach for him son he meets Dory, played by Ellen DeGenered, who has short term memory loose, which then adds lots of comedy to the film. They meet many other sea creatures on their journey that all have lots of personality. That make the characters very realistic in this film, lots of things that would happen in the world around us as humans. For example, Dory has short term memory lose and doesn't remember anything Marlin or anyone else tells her. Another example is fish school that they have in the ocean for all the baby fishes. Thirdly, the fish that give directions to Dory and Marlin to where Sydney Australia is, which would be just like the internet here telling us when to get right and left, and what to look out for.
The movie has very good animation with many details. Such as the different types of fish, which there were many. There was music that made this movie even better like the famous song for Finding Nemo, Just Keep Swimming, it made the movie more fun. There were also many other sounds playing in the background that made the ocean scene seem very real. The camera angles werent to challenging, they were pretty original, like the mediam shot was common. One that stock out was the long shoot what Marlin was looking out into the sea for Nemo right after he got taken away.
Overall this movie was a great. It would be a wonderful family movie for all ages. The colors will grab your attention right from that start.