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The Jungle Book (1967): Production and Technology

Production and Technology The Telegraph: The Making of Disney's most troubled film. The Jungle Book (hereafter JB) was released in 1967 by Walt Disney Productions . It was created at the Walt Disney Studios in California. Disney’s animation studio had been responsible for developing many of the techniques and ways of working that became standard practices of traditional cel animation , pioneering the art of storyboarding and developing the use of the multiplane to create an early 3-D like effect . Disney’s personal control of the whole studio affected all stages of production and distribution . Before production of JB started, Disney had streamlined the whole production system so that he had one supervising director, one art director, four master animators and one storyman. The storyman would write the screenplay, make the storyboards and record the voices. At the start of production JB’s storyman was Bill Peet , who complained, noting that ‘more than forty men h...

The Jungle Book (2016): Technology

Technology Sean Bailey, president of production for Disney, called JB16 ‘one of the most technologically advanced movies ever made’ ; as the director noted, ‘I found myself wrestling with the same things as Walt, who used cutting edge technology for his day, but with a different set of tools and technologies.’ TASK: Read and make notes on the following article. https://www.awn.com/animationworld/jon-favreau-looks-back-jungle-book JB16 is the result of cutting edge CGI – the animals were created digitally post-production and the one actor in the film (playing Mowgli) acted against a blue screen . TASK: Read and make notes on the following article. http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-jungle-book-without-cgi-2016-4/#all-of-the-jungles-animal-inhabitants-were-created-in-post-production-9 TASK: Watch the following video on CGI animation. The Jungle Book CGI On the set, scenes for The Jungle Book were first filmed using motion capture . ‘We motion-captured the en...

All Theories

All Theories Below is every specified theory that you are expected to know for your A Level exams. Below is a brief summary of each to help you apply these to the various different aspects of the course. Click Here for a Quizlet set based on the following. Click Here for Information on how to apply the theories to different areas of the course. Semiology – Barthes The study of signs. Signs consist of a signifier (a word, an image, a sound, and so on) and its meaning - the signified. Genre Theory – Neale What genres are, and about how and why they are created, change endure or decline. Neale argues that genre is a process by which generic codes and conventions are shared by producers and audiences through repetition in media products. This means that genes are not fixed, but constantly evolve with each new addition to the generic corpus (the body of products in a genre), often playing with genre codes and conventions or becoming hybrids with other genres. Gen...

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