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
The movie that I am going to review is Trolls. The movie is a DreamWorks Animation, from the creators of Shrek. The most important actors in the movie is Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, and Zooey Deschanel. Trolls is a PG rated movie that is safe and fun for kids of all ages. The movie Trolls is about cute, colorful, tall-haired creatures fled the mean, miserable Bergen’s, who can only feel happiness when they eat trolls. The trolls have forgotten to be feared by the Bergen’s because it has
Whack, whack, pound smash roaQaaaaaaaaar those would be the common noises you would hear in the game I have been creating and that is cofunded by dreamworks. The game is based of the new hit movie Shrek 5 new swamp. The game first starts when Shrek's swamp gets dried up. After the swamp is dried up shrek has to go on the adventure to find a new swamp house. Shreks first goal in the game is to get his donkey who is everything to him (not his wife though). Donkey is one of the playable character you
Disney vs. Dreamworks Whether it’s flying high with Hiccup and Toothless, swimming across the ocean with Ariel, or battling monsters with Hercules, Disney and DreamWorks bring liveliness and passion to families’ television screens every day. Their missions are to bring insanity and silliness to raise children’s spirit and imagination. DreamWorks and Disney are similar because their cartoons contain both valuable life lessons and impactful messages that affect the minds of adults and children, yet
Then why is that a more standard American accent used for main characters as apposed to the Nordic or pseudo-Nordic accents of the supporting roles? In this paper, we will look at the ways in which Scandinavians are portrayed in Disney’s Frozen and DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon franchise by comparing the traits of those with accents to those without. Across American animated media representations of Nordic culture, the protagonist and their friends speak with a standard American accent. For