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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 entire

The Jungle Book (2016) Ownership, Marketing and Distribution

Ownership, Marketing and Distribution ‘Disney leads the world in the production and distribution of popular culture. What’s more they can use their incredible back catalogue of production and re-present it for new audiences : To have this incredible vault of content that they can go back to and re imagine, retool and recreate for today’s audiences just gives them a depth and breadth of films that is almost unparalleled .’ TASK: Read the following report from Media analyst Paul Dergarabedian in https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/jungle-book-roars-box-office-103-6-million-debut-n557341 As noted above JB16 was planned by Walt Disney Studios Chairman, Alan Horn , as one of a series of remakes of their classic properties: ‘Hollywood makes lots of films for kids, but the Disney reboots may be one of the few safe bets . They revive classic characters for a new generation of kids , and their already smitten parents may be especially willing to shell out for related m

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