Charlotte Azaceta
Professor Mirrer
Film Theory
The
most influential movie was hard for me to pick, but I think I will have to go
with Toy Story. It was the first
computer animated feature length film released by Disney but produced by Pixar
Animation Studios. The computer
technology that went into this movie was extraordinary, but even more so than
that was the story itself. To be
able to create an animation that had camera shots of a live film was
amazing.
When making films,
everything has a purpose. What is
placed in the scene, how the angle of the camera is, what is actually shown or
heard, is all meticulously calculated to make you feel the way they want you to,
at a particular moment of the film.
Capturing those feelings with animation, in my opinion, is harder to do.
John Lasseter, the director, created
this heart warming film, that people-especially young ones- can relate to. The sequels to this film made it
something that a kid could never forget.
When this film came out, I was Andy’s age. By the third movie the character Andy was going to college,
so the movie kept up with the original audience. Though it is a kid’s movie, they made it enjoyable for
adults as well. Not only was it
visually enticing, but also the script was written so all age groups could love
it.
How I believe Film
Theory relates to this film is taking the emotion, new technology, and a
well-known memory for people of all ages and creating a truly spectacular
movie. Film theory expresses and allows
for cinemas to take you out of the realm of reality. In Toy Story they
made the toys look more real and the people look fake purposely to make you
focus on the toys and the magical world in which they created as their reality.
