Explain The Impact Of Patterns Of Ownership And Control On Film Production

The Jungle Book (1967) was the last film that Walt Disney himself was involoved in producing before his death. Walt Disney was very in  tight control of all aspects of production. Walt wanted The Jungle Book to me a light hearted, musical, family friendly film. So much that he had to drop his original team as they did not fall in line with ideas of this family friendly film as they had made it a lot darker than walt intened. 

The Jungle Book (1967) was animated using the multiplane camera which was the height of technology at its time. The movements are calculated and photographed frame-by-frame, with the result being an illusion of depth by having several layers of artwork moving at different speeds: the further away from the camera, the slower the speed. The multiplane effect is sometimes referred to as a parallax process. Before the multiplane camera, animators found it difficult to create a successful tracking shot using traditional animation methods. Furthermore, the act of animating the forward motion was becoming increasingly costly and time-consuming. The multiplane camera answered this problem by creating a realistic sense of three dimensional depth in a cartoon setting. The multiplane camera also made way for new types of special effects in animated films, such as moving water and flickering light. The multiplane camera made it possible for them to create a more realistc animation with proper depth.

The Jungle Book (2016) however was produced by Jon Favreau. This remake of The Jungle Book has some similarites to the original. However the remake is a lot less child friendly as it has a much darker tone and less music. The remakes pull was also more drawn upon star marketing and focusing on advertsing the a list cast who were involved and rather than the story, because most people already know of the story.

The Jungle Book (2016) was animated using a mixture of CGI and live action, Mowgli being live action and all the animals and scenery being CGI. The film was shot almost entirely in a warehouse in Los Angeles. Jim Henson's Creature Shop was brought in to provide animal puppet figures for Sethi to act against, although none appear in the finished film. They used Maya animation software to create the complicated animal rigs and the RenderMan software, which was developed by Pixar, for the shading and lighting, which was immensely complicated for immersive jungle scenes. One of the most crucial parts of creating realistic CGI animals is getting the fur just right, which includes creating natural movement in real-time. Both movies 1967 and 2016 studied the movement of animals for the most realistic possible animation.