Name of the text: Ratatouille
Director: Brad Bird
Entertainment Company: Pixar Animation Studios
Release year: 2007
Angles & Shots: This film uses a medium shot and close-up because the movie usually shows the story from the waist up. The angle used is the eye level.
Camera movements: in this movie the use of a lot of camera movement as pan, tilt and zoom.
Background: The scenes take place in a typical kitchen of a French restaurant, is a dialogue between Linguini and Colette, an everyday scene in which both perform activities of kitchen.
Lighting: in this movie the light effects are diegetic because it is an animation so the only light is what is supposed to have the work and are fully edited footage so we can say that is naturalistic because it makes representations of a natural background.
Decoration: Within the basic accessories of the film are the kitchen tools, the setting of the famous restaurant kitchen, sinks, walls, and kitchen lights make us travel to a place where they prepare food friendly quality. Among the accessories of the characters out of costume that characterized the predominant accessories that help the scenes have to do with cookware, containers, knife, tables, shovels and the actions carried out in this scene must action related to food preparation.
Costume: seeks to represent the office of the characters, kitchen assistants, using typical chef coats hats, discrete but are not to infer that is slightly baggy clothes. At the end of their activities in the kitchen the characters look casual clothes outside.
Makeup: one can say that this film uses a neutral makeup, then describes the characters and what does her makeup on each.
Sound (diágolo, ambientasl noise, background music and silence)
Dialogue: This scene shows a dialogue between Colette and Remy, practically a monologue in which Collette tries to explain all he knows of Gusteau and practices that are used in the restaurant, seems to boast of their knowledge
Environmental noise: noise that accompany these images are typical of a kitchen in a restaurant, hitting pots, knives, water, etc..
Silence: there are very few marked silence in this scene, small and fast, denoting doubt Remy.
Background music: in this scene, Colette gives Remy a lot of information at high speed, the music serves as the perfect, having a fast-paced instrumental music.
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a profession that hates the rats. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely and certainly unwanted visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris.
Branden Bird is an U.S. animation director, screenwriter and filmmaker. He had worked as an animator in movies as “Animalympics” and “The plague dogs”. And since 1987 he started to work just as director and screenwriter. He did a total of 13 movies, and we can mention as the most important movies of his career: Ratatouille, The incredible and The iron giant.
A Reforma journalist says that ratatouille is the most original movie of the summer 2007. Is considered as a film that include in an ingenious and emotive way the magic that is represented in the disposition of two characters that discover the value of a generous friendship because both of them trust in each other. Finally says that Ratatouille is a story with an extraordinary use of animation effects characterized by an amazing realism. (Nuñez, 2007).
Luis Osorio
Is a critical in Grupo Reforma and says in the publication: “El año según los críticos” in “El Norte” newspaper that the story, characters, animation and music make Ratatouille one of the best movies of the year. (El año según los críticos, 2007)
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007
In 2007 there was development of technology such
as the new ipad. But in society there was happening lot of things in Paris,
France. This is considered one of the most attractive cities in the entire
culinary culture and also rats.
world to visit. And it is characterized by the romantic environment, great
YEAR OF NARRATION
In the modernity as it is narrated characters used to wear jeans, casual cloth and the buildings even as they look kind of old the context shows that is in the XXI century. They are looking for opportunities for one side Linguini that needs to look well infront of the Colette the girl of his dreams. And Remi who is looking for being accepted just as he is by his family, looks to be a time for challenge but also the chance to achieve a goal.
YEAR OF READING
2012 Now a day it continues to be a really
challenging world, everybody is looking for having a job. But is such a great
lesson for every person that watches this movie because society needs to look for their dreams. Paris is still being a good city to travel and have beautiful food and romantic stories.
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Obtained april 07, El año según los críticos. (30 de Diciembre de 2007). El Norte.
Obtained april 07, Ve Germán Robles en la animación la gran veta del cine nacional. CNotimex.
Obtained april 07, The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1327232111266
Obtained april 05, Nuñez, O. E.. Oliva E. Nuñez. Reforma.
Obtained april 07, Ve Germán Robles en la animación la gran veta del cine nacional. CNotimex.
Obtained april 07, The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1327232111266
Obtained april 05, Nuñez, O. E.. Oliva E. Nuñez. Reforma.