Wednesday 16 October 2013

Analysing The Lion King

In today's theory lesson, we watched The Lion King and analysed the various camera shots/angles, movements, the editing, sound and mise en scene. Here is a example of each section and what I interpreted from it while watching the film:


Camera shots: There was a birds eye view of the location/setting at the beginning, this was an establishing shot which sets the scene. One other interesting shot I learnt was the 360 degrees panorama shot which was shown when Simba and Scar were circling each other, this creates confusion and tension for the audience.
Editing: At one part, there were several transitions of the background changing as the characters walked through the jungle, this portrayed that time had passed; this type of edit is called shrinking time.
Sound: Non-diegetic music was used in the opening of the film, which means we can hear it but not the characters in the film, this created a positive mood to the start of the movie as it was very upbeat and had a catchy rhythm to it.
Mise En Scene: I think colour played a major role in the movie, as there is a strong theme of nature which expresses bright colours such as green, connoting a happy tone, in the beginning there is also a constant tone of orange/yellow which connotes positive feelings and the vegetation (trees and grass) connote life.

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