Film Technique Practice

 Zootopia

Brainstorm:

- a fox wants to but a jumbo pop from the elephant store but they won't sell it to him. 

- the bunny officer steps in to help.

Technique:

Color - bright-heartening scene, aimed at children so is colorful and engaging.

Lighting - warm, natural, bright - daytime, hot sunny day, fox/bunny spotlighting

(Shots/angles/focus/movement) - high/low angles-elephant is taller, feels bigger, superior. We aren't meant to like the elephant because he won't serve them-rough angry tone, low angle from Fox POV and High angle down onto fox makes him look small.

Musical/sound - you don't have to if there's nothing.

Statement: In the 'popsical' scene, high angle shots are used to show the imbalance of power between characters.

Evidence: We see this when the elephant is talking to the fox. The low angle shot is used to show how much bigger and more imposing the elephant is than the fox.

X-audience: This makes the audience feel sad for the fox because he is being refused service because of his size. 

X-director: The purpose of this is to introduce the idea of stereotyping to the viewer. Appearing large and rough, the elephant shopkeeper refuses service because he is a fox. Strengthening this idea is the elephants quote 'go back to your side of town'.

X-other technique: Combined with the use of low angle shots, we see the differences in the characters, rather than the similarities. The high angle point of view makes the fox seem even smaller than the elephants towering over him.

L-Realword-Link: Issues like this where people are judge on their size, race or religion are not isolated to this film. In the real world we tackle ongoing issues of discrimination in every country, even in 2021.