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Dreamworks Movie Trolls

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Mise-en-scene, meaning what is put into the scene or frame, is the arrangement of everything that appears within framing. What may be put in or left out of scene can impact the movie greatly, especially within movies targeted towards children who value highly what they are seeing in contrast to what they are hearing. Through the use of two mise-en-scene elements, hair/makeup, costume, and setting, DreamWorks movie Trolls is able to portray the idea of contrasting worlds and character attitudes to even its youngest audiences. Through the analysis of two specific scenes, when the Troll Tree is shown in the center of Bergen Town and when the Trolls are all captured and locked in a pot, the value of makeup/hair, costume, and setting is especially valuable in understanding the scene and characters. Trolls is a children's or family animated movie based on a …show more content…

The use of the Troll Dolls as reference also gave animators a place to start when designing characters hair/makeup and costumes. Produced in the 1960's the Troll Dolls embodied styles and trends from that era, which have then been translated into the Trolls movie for it is full of bright, swirling, psychedelic colors. Amongst the troll village, all trolls have bright skin tones paired with bright up-combed hair. Their bright, warm and colorful skin and hair is metaphoric for their generally positive, cheerful, and friendly dispositions. Contrasting the trolls the Bergen's skin tone is muted and using cool colors, most with thin, patchy hair of muted colors as well. Their skin tone and hair give them a sad, decrepit, and solemn vibe which pairs perfectly with their disposition within the

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