Blog 7: Animation Deconstruction

I chose to write my animation blog on one of my favorite animated films Finding Nemo.  The first scene I took a screen shot of is at the beginning of the movie when the camera is showing the location in which Nemo and his father resides.  The Shot contains many bright colors as it is displaying the coral reef.  There are many bright hues of the colors.  There is very high brightness of the color scheme of the coral reef in this particular shot.  On the other hand, in the other shot I chose, when Dory and Nemo’s father are in the dark abyss, is a very dark scene.  The two got lost in the abyss and now there is a mysterious light in front of their own eyes.  The hue of colors are very different, they are very dark and changes the mood significantly.  The brightness in this scene is dark other than the shining light.  It is a very unique feature of the scene, because the only light in the shot is the mysterious light in their face.  Other than that it is a very dark and intense scene. 

This brings me to the lightness factor of the two scenes.  The abyss scene obviously has much more shadows in the shot.  The coral reef segment has lots of lighting.  Which portrays different moods to the two.  The abyss scene is a very scary and intense mood while the coral reef portion is a very happy mood expressed by the lighting.  Both shots use the lighting to symbolize different meanings and mostly to express different moods and emotions.

The last factor I would like to speak about in the two animated shots of Finding Nemo is the movements.  The coral reef portion contains lots of horizontal line direction through the attributes of the coral and the creatures in the scene.  In addition, there is proof of parallel movements between the coral.  However, in the abyss segment, there is more overlapping movement than anything.  Overlapping movement is occurring by both Dory and Nemo’s father looking at the unknown source of the light.  The light is also moving at the same time as the two characters which create the overlapping movement.  One last feature of the abyss shot is the use of weight.  The animation shows weight by the bouncing up and down of the mysterious light.