Week 3 - More on Sound

There isn't much to say this week as what I wrote last week for sound, was spoken about this week. I guess the two mostly fresh things in my mind are two videos we watched today; a little film about a cheating couple, with the actors all being insects and a remix version of Disney's Snow White called 'Wishery'.

The insect film was a humorous one; a husband who leaves for work, but actually goes drinking and cheating whilst the wife stays home and invites her lover round. Ironically, her lover is an artist and the character who reveals the cheating husband is a cameraman. The sound in the background was instrumental music all the way through; the music was carefully written and well adapted to the mini movie.

Snow White became Disney's first major Princess in an animated feature in 1937. Many people doubted the films success and tried to discourage Walt to give up it entirely, but after completion, the film went on to be the number one best animated film of the year.

The music in this film really is amazing, every tone, key and pitch are perfect and suit every scene. Even if this video is a remix version of the original songs mixed together, you can still enjoy and appreciate what Walt created many years ago. The beats that mix together with the vocals and sounds from the film create an almost '21st Century' version of the songs, but keeps true to the original music.

Snow White's voice is exceptionally suited to her character, young and sweet; being a princess, she sings almost opera style. In fact, a lot of her notes are opera like. Her voice actress was Adriana Caselotti, daughter of Guido Caselotti, a teacher of music and a vocal coach and Maria Orefice, an opera singer, so naturally, she would have a beautiful voice.

To accompany Snow White's sweet singing was the seven dwarfs and their uplifting 'cheeky' singing. Their renditions of  'Dig, Dig, Dig' and 'Hi Ho, It's Off To Work We Go' and two of the greatest songs in Disney history; they're two of the type of songs that people randomly sing today jokingly.

Snow White is one of my favourite Disney films; I prefer the older versions when they are hand drawn as everything seems in so much more detail and helps me to appreciate the long process it took to make it. The sounds and vocals are perfectly assigned to each scene making everything spectacular.