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A brief history Walt Disney Animation

Walt Disney Studios is arguably (or at least within my family) the best movie companies out there. However good their live action movies were concerned, the animations that the company has produced have been some of the most ground breaking animations out there. So please, sit back, keep your arms inside the vehicle at all times, and please enjoy our complementary popcorn as we journey into:

The History of Walt Disney Studios

Our story begins where a young Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney purchased the back side of a realty group in Los Angeles California back in 1923. There, the brothers made a series of short films (both live action and animated) that collectively were called Alice Comedies. Those short films were rather successful, as within four months of opening the small studio they decided, along with the people that they hired before hand, to move next door into a larger building. Nearly a year later, the brothers made a deposit on a piece of land in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. It was there that the team made numerous animated wonders.

The Elite Seven

Their first full length feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarf proved to be a huge success. The movie was given critical acclaim all around the world. After that, the team pumped out other great animations like Fantasia, Bambi, and Alice in Wonderland just to name a few. The company also made live-action movies, however that is for another class....

Motion and Emotion

Camera Movement

How to create emotion from motion

Different types of camera movement can create different senses of action (like the use of a shaky camera versus a smooth camera). Camera movement can also emphasize what the director of the film would like the audience to see.

Types of Camera Movement

• Crane moving downwards
• this shot type can help bring the audience into the scene through the imagery of "dropping down out of the ceiling" and into the scene.
• Crane moving upwards
• this shot type can show how tiny the character is compared to the world they inhabit along with showing the enormous size of the obstacle they face.
• Crane moving from a high angle to a low angle
• this shot type can show how imposing and fearful the character or object is. This can be used to establish authority in the shot.
• Handheld camera movement
• This shot can be shaky and can show how dangerous or strange the scene or object is. This can also show how edgy (like Reaper) a character is.
• Quick pan
• This shot can instantly change the emotional within the scene, for better or for worse.
• Quick push in
• This shot can show shock or surprise in the characters.
• Slow dolly in 
• This shot can establish a more intimate relationship between the character and the audience.
• Slow dolly out
• This shot can show how emotionally lost a character is.
• Dolly Zoom with a bit of zoom
• This shot can show fear in the character.
• Glide in 360 shot
• This shot can show the calm before the storm.
• Glide cam shot around the characters
• This shot can almost describe a dream-like sequence the characters are enduring.

The video where most of this comes from