Spirited Away? (1 Viewer)

[CookieGal17]

Im new to this whole forum thing btw...
Anyways... I was thinking of doing Sprited Away as the main text for my assesment task... but its soo hard to talk about the techniques the composer uses to illustrate imaginative journeys... i mean besides the unusual looking characters i cant find anything else... IM HAVING A MENTAL BLOCK!!... please help....

 

[kimmeh]

Obviuosly you've chosen the wrong text if you've found it hard to talk about the techniques nonetheless, here is a few points to help you get started anyway.

+Look at why a cartoon may be used and not real live actors
+I'm assuming there is some form of mythological creature in the movie: what culture/ethnicity does this allude to?
+How is the movei structured? chronological order/flashbacks of someones life/snippets of future images etc
+Colours: These play an important role in cartoons. Is there colour symbolism use (ie. good = blue, evil = red)? Is colour used typically (ie. brown cow, green grass)?
+Is there music to illustrate a special scene, like to indicate to the responder the proptagonists soliloquy? What role does music have in the movie?
+Camera angles: this site will help you - http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html and what it acheives

 

[AsyLum]

Firstly,

A lot of it has to do with the japanese style of storytelling, that is implicit unlike the western style of explicit.

If you think of it as a Japanese adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, it will make a lot more sense to you.

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/sen/

Will help you a lot more than i can atm

Good luck.

 

[CookieGal17]

thanx for the help!