The Representation Of Dwarfs In Snow White

The movie made by Disney, Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs, the representation of the characters change lots over the time to suit the full audience being shown to.

Visual codes have been used differently to depict the dwarfs over each of the movies, snow white and the seven dwarfs and snow white mirror, mirror. Firstly, in both of the movies the costumes are used to show the audience what type of Character the dwarfs are. Although one of the versions shows the dwarfs wearing colourful clothing, in ‘Mirror, Mirror’, the dwarfs are introduced wearing ragged type clothing. The dwarfs don’t change much untill the end when they still have the same clothing but cleaner and have gold and coins etc. Secondly, the Props used to depict the dwarfs of each version are different according to the fold law of time, in Snow white and the seven dwarfs, the dwarfs are seen with dimonds, rubys and some deer to help push the cart with pickaxe’s. these icons are associated with dwarfs and miners in the 1930’s and 1940’s further enhancing the stereotype of mining dwarfs. In Mirror, Mirror Snow white, the dwarfs are shows with different clothing showing what they did in the past. The dwarfs also have shoes that can extend during the start of the movie to show them taller and bigger during the movie, encouraging viwers to associate the dwarfs as bandit robbers as they they managed to attack and beat up the prince with out a problem. Lastly, lighting effects used are dissimilar in each of the films. In the seven dwarfs the ‘dwarfs’ are usually shown with loads of light to show that they are good and that they mean something and they would all be in the middle of the shot as it is animated film. The animators needed to ensure that the audience could see all the things that was happening on the screen and did many lighting effects and had not ‘yet’ been invented. Mirror, Mirror uses changes in lighting not so effectively bringing it so everyone could see what is going on and not really increase tension to the further plot. The Dwarfs in Mirror, Mirror are shown ether in a black dark area or light area with it lit up or not so lit up. Overall, I much prefer the way visual codes are used to encourage viewers to see the dwarfs as small people that have a good fight like a bandit in the modern version of that tale.

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Sound codes have been used in Distinct ways to enhance the viewer’s experience. Snow white and the seven dwarfs used sound to underscore the entire movie though it was a technique for that time, however snow white ‘Mirror, Mirror’ uses silence for most of it. Firstly, Snow white and the seven dwarfs uses a dull symphonic orchestra to provide the music and sound effects for the movie with musical playment for the dwarfs. The scoring is typical of music for film in the 1930’s and is very ‘Classical’ in its sound. Music is played under the script for the entire movie giving it happyness and relief to match the plot however it is very obivous at all times in the movie. But in Mirror, Mirror the music is digital, using scoring with electronic instruments and silences are used lots of times to create suspense in the movie. The music in Mirror, Mirror is far more understated and unobtrusive, which more keeping with music from modern movies. Sound effects are produced by a traditional instrumental foley artist. In the movie Mirror, Mirror the sound effects are not frequently but are more Subtle and includes the sounds of the door being bashed down even though they had 2 key’s. I Enjoy the Symphonic music, I much prefer the way how sound was used with Mirror, Mirror to make the movie Enhanced and provide restrained detail to the dwarfs characters.

The language features used in both fillms contain’s some similarities but not much however in general language codes are far more sophisticated in the modern tale of the movie Mirror, Mirror. Firstly, in both movies, the character of the dwarfs are described by the the prince as ‘‘these’s Children!’’, however the dialogue for the Dwarfs characters is not limited in SWatD. In the SWD the dwarfs have many scenes and is perhaps important as Snow white who has the same or not more screen time to develop her character like the dwarfs. The dwarfs in MM talk differently moving away from the old technique first used in the original story. In this latest version, the prince furthers our understanding of the 7 dwarfs by stating that he has to ‘show theis little children a lession’. The use of the word ‘Children underscores the idea that the dwarfs look like small children and thinking that they are not good at fighting or anything. The Tone of voice is used differently in both versions of the story, however in both don’t really make use of the language as the dwarfs are shown differently. 7 Actress’s with an different talking style in the MM and was changed in both films. In MM, Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Danny Woodburn, Sebastian Saraceno, Martin Klebba, and Ronald Lee Clark., as the seven dwarfs, Consistently uses avarage, and non deliberate enunciated speech. Generally I prefer the way that Language features are used to enhance the audiences understanding of the dwarfs motives in MM. I believe that we are strongly lead to believe theis characters is truly rebilionish and heroic and will help snow white into getting her the ways of being a trained bandit.

It should now be clear that representations of the dwarfs from the children’s story, SWatSD, have change significantly over the time to suit the audience’s like’s. Despite being antagonist to the queen in not all but most versions of the story, the portrayal of the dwarfs in MM is by far the most convincing little men in all of the story’s. visual, sound and language codes have been used extremely effectively enough to a point in this version to create a character for the audiences to sincerely loathe.