Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Date Released” June 16, 1994
Genre: Family, Musical, Animation
Main Characters:
Simba
Cheerful, feisty lion cub Simba “Just Can’t Wait to Be King,” but with the loss of his dad, Mufasa, his adventures take a new path.
Mufasa
As ready to play as he is to instruct, Mufasa guides young Simba with a voice as golden as his magnificent mane.
Sarabi – Queen of the Prides Land
Rafiki
The old baboon that travels his own road, sings his own songs and knows what he knows.
Plot: A young cub named Simba was born to Mufasa and Sarabi and was in line for the throne after his father, but a greedy uncle named Scar wanted the position as king. Simba left the herd because he thought he killed his father. He discovered when he grew up that he had to return and face his family and also that he did not kill his father. Scar killed his father for the throne.
The music was phenomenal and intriguing! It captured your attention with how it enhanced the movement in the scene with the animals exhibiting excitement and great joy. The sound of the music captured the attention of a range of people from young to old and sparked an interest to see what was associated with it.
Although the talking and placing it correctly with the scenes was not easy because you were not on the screen being filmed, but visualizing yourself in the scene. The film being animated is a challenge because the movement with sound have to be on point.Characters talking to one another in films, known as dialogue, is now so much a part of the movie experience that audiences take it for granted (Goodykoontz, B. & Jacobs, C. P., 2014 sec 8.4 par 2).
The sound effects causes emotions to heighten such as fear and crying in the movie. It also caused you to think that the characters in the scene can hear what you are saying. Your heart raced when the sound effects were used at the appropriate moment because anticipation of what is going to happen and then nothing as the sound becomes calm to keep you on alert. The sound and effects helps to create what the story is about and how it is seen by the audience.
If the sound effect was removed from “The Lion King”, it would not capture the heart of the young people because they associate sound with animation. Effective editing can effortlessly manipulate time and space, but what really holds a viewer’s attention is the way it manipulates rhythm and pacing throughout a film (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014 sec 7.4 par 20).
Reference
Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2014). Film: From watching to seeing (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc
Lion King Family Tree – The Lion King WWW Archive http://www.lionking.org/~kiara/familytree
The Lion King Characters | Disney Movies – Walt Disney
http://movies.disney.com/the-lion-king/characters
Mecchi, Irene & Roberts, Jonathan (1994). The Lion King. Retrieved from http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+lion+king&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=5BA164947E71BA65CB005BA164947E71BA65CB00
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