Thursday, 13 February 2025

film rev

 3 new techs in shang chi Used Skywalker sound - a company Disney owns for sound effects

Weta for their visual effects - who use layers for each scene to add their effects - VFX/CGI - Bluescreen - combines real life with CGI and is derived from green screens - sound stage - artificial sets to record scenes - where the 2 busses were filmed in the Shang-Chi fight scene and is often a large warehouse


3 new tech for snow white - technicolor(3 colours of film that can combine to make any other colour to give bold colourful scenes), rotoscoping (film irl and draw over it for animation), multi plane camera(multilayered camera where different layers of fore and background can be moved) - 


Analogue to digital from snow white production to Shang-Chi - shows change in the Disney company and its evolution - 

What is the biggest change in the Disney company since Snow White - In my Opinion it is how they can be watched - furthermore their increase in inclusivity and diversity across the company - this change is shown in Snow Whites beauty being relative to her skin tone, a trait that would not be used in todays Disney however at the time the Disney staff were almost entirely white and had a very non diverse company (however they did employ women for the ink and paint department). In the new live action remake, they changed the meaning of her name to describe the day she was born (when it was snowing) -  Shang-Chi however has a much more diverse setup with a famous Asian American actor in Simu Liu - and a Japanese-American director Destin Daniel Crettin - DJ Snake a hip hop producer as well being used in the soundtrack for a Disney film. Snow White uses opera singers and wants exclu8sivity (gave the 15 yr old singer sign a contract to ever sing for a non Disney film again) and now they use Hip-Hop and even put Simu Liu in the music video. 


Captain America : Brave New World 

New Captain America - now a black man - statement from Marvel and Disney especially with the current persecution of minorities with the new American government.

Happened before in film - Spiderman - Peter Parker to Miles Morales - not Disney's doing however as Sony bought the rights to Spiderman 

The similarities of this film to previous Marvel iterations such as The Winter Soldier are coherent with David Hesmondhalgh's theory of cultural industries where media have a typical capitalist pattern relying on repetition

Stars repeated - Anthony Mackie - Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones - can acquire him as Disney owns Star Wars)

genres - Marvel has a history of action and fantasy films

Franchises - MCU

narratives - Happy birthdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy love holza (ps when u sending the 2.50


Disney+ is promoting the new film by headlining their film Falcon and the Winter Soldier - a film with the same characters

Shang chi has many options on Disney+ such as IMAX enhanced with better quality 

They also have a deleted scenes option such as one called 'pep talk' where characters settle their differences and bond over similarities - 'just  a valet driver' and an 'amputee from Romania' - furthers the diversity with European representation as well as representing his disability - tech used in this film includes visual digital painting for backgrounds - unfinished visuals are called pre-vis - 



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film rev

 3 new techs in shang chi Used Skywalker sound - a company Disney owns for sound effects Weta for their visual effects - who use layers for ...