Essay on Jungle Book production
1.
Disney as a conglomerate
Disney is the
world’s largest conglomerate;
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Introduce Disney as the world’s largest
conglomerate (vocab addition), discuss Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and the recent
20th century fox deal
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What is their main competition?
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What is an oligopoly? What are the other five
major film studios?
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What is Disney’s new proposed streaming service?
2.
The process and importance of production
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What is Disney’s reputation in filmmaking?
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Disney has an
excellent reputation in filmmaking due to its extremely successful films made
such as ‘Snow White’ and ‘Cinderella’ as well as the merchandise to help add to
their reputation. Disney has had to be successful in film making
to be able to continue for 94 years. Disney has made enough success to be able
to continue producing films with a large expenditure and still make profit once
its released.
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How did Disney manage to capture audiences in
1967 and 2016 but not in between?
In 1967, audiences were captured by the catchy
music within the film, sung by famous jazz singers. In 2016, audiences were
attracted due to the constant advertisement. Interviews with a famous cast,
colourful and realistic posters and teaser trailers pulled an audience in.
3.
The production process of the 2016 Jungle Book
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What techniques did Favreau adopt from other
films? What was his goal?
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Favreau’s goal for
the new jungle book was to modernise the classic film by reinventing the
storyline, making the animals look realistic and updated the songs so that it
would appeal to new audiences.
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How did they film the jungle and Mowgli? The
animal characters?
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The new jungle book
was filmed with CGI and green screen
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What is the uncanny valley effect? Why did
Disney want to avoid this?
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Are the animals realistic, how does Favreau
manage to reflect the childlike view?
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What did MPC do for Jungle Book
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What is a Simulcam, give examples of when/how it
has been used.
4.
Production process of 1967 version of Jungle
Book
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Discuss the storyboard process
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What did they use as reference points?
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What is rotoscoping?
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What is xerography and how was it used?
To conclude, the production process of both Jungle book
films places technology and the experience of the audience at the heart of
development. This commitment has not changed in the 80 years since the release
of Snow White and by examining the production processes of both Jungle Book
movies you can tell that the focus on technological change is just as important
now as it ever was.
Disney is the world’s largest
conglomerate and media production company. Collectively, Disney’s annual income
is $185 billion, and a plethora of companies such as Pixar, Marvel, Lucas Films
and the recent 20th century fox deal have all made this possible. Disney’s main competition is companies such as Comcast,
who are network and television distributors. They earn a lot of money from
constantly releasing long television series and films. To fight back, Bob Iger
recently released that Disney are soon presenting a television and cable
company to our devices. This
will compete against the popular Netflix however is said to cost ‘substantially
less’ and will include series linking to their already made movies. This is a
new production idea for Disney as they have noticed that online streaming is
becoming very popular.
The Walt Disney mass marking company has a huge reputation of
fantastic filmmaking and capturing an audience of all ages and interests
whatever the topic may be. this is shown through the jungle book where the
lovers from the original jungle book would likely to return with their
children, grandchildren etc. This would gain The Walt Disney companies a larger
audience, allowing their future creations to succeed. The jungle book as released in
2016 with the help of some big stars and changed the trend in recently released
Disney films which where all stereotypical Disney princess films but this
changed when jungle book was released and proved to be a huge success and was
one of the highest grossing films released in 2016.
Favreau used
the techniques like keeping the music the same as the original and the vibe the
same as the other films. They all are great films that are very different but
his goal for this film was
The jungle was
made digitally made by VFX. There was also CGI involved which made the animals
seem extremely realistic. Soe parts were filmed inffront of a blue screen with
fake animal heads to represent where the animals would later be added in.
The uncanny valley
effect suggests that humanoid objects which appear almost, but not exactly,
like real human beings cause uncanny,
or strangely familiar, feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers.
The animals are realistic allowing the film to have
a more mature image. However, the animals have a slight look of a cartoon,
allowing it to appeal to children too. Favreau managed to reflect the childlike
view by using the CGI movement of each animals face to represent the movements
that are similar of a childs.
The MPC gave the
jungle book of 2016 VFX. This means that it improved the quality of the
graphics I the film to make it more realistic. For example, they applied it to
Baloo and Shere Khan to make them look more real.
To conclude, the production process of both Jungle book
films places technology and the experience of the audience at the heart of
development. This commitment has not changed in the 80 years since the release
of Snow White and by examining the production processes of both Jungle Book
movies you can tell that the focus on technological change is just as important
now as it ever was.
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