Cinderella
Drama, music, singing, dancing and visual art when all combined together make up the concept of Multi Arts, each element of multi arts compliment each other and help deliver the messages of the performance in a much more powerful and effective way not to mention making the performance much more entertaining. Multi Arts is mainly expressed through musicals and other dramatic performances that involve every element, in 2001 Multi Arts at St Dominics is based around the school musical production of "Wonder in Alice Land." I have chosen to analyse Disney's Cartoon Version of Cinderella and the Albert and Hammerstein Movie Version of Cinderella (Staring Brandy, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg and Whitney Houston). Costume is one of the most obvious visuals in a musical performance and as I was watching both of the tapes I noticed the variation and links between the costume designs of the two movies. Disney's version shows a Traditional, Classical design whereas the Albert and Hammerstein Movie of Cinderella had more brighter, modern costumes. It was almost as though they were living in a Toy Land, everything was so over-the-top and exaggerated that sometimes it was hard to believe that these were real people actin
And finally, Prince Charming, whose name says it all, he wore a neat, white suite in the cartoon and movie. There wasn't much dancing in this movie because the characters tended to sing as they were doing a task that made it interesting to watch as we usually associate music and singing with dancing. The music to this movie gave it a more laid back, not so serious touch to the movie, as if it was saying, "Sit back, relax and enjoy the show!" this is the sort of thing that people want to watch nowadays, they want to be entertained and want to laugh and take nothing seriously in the movie. Again, in the Albert and Hammerstein Cinderella had a duller, scrubby looking costume as the housemaid and a very elegant white dress for the ball. Her costumes were dark reds and black, which gave her a sense of evil, with just one look; you could tell that she was a bad person. Albert and Hammerstein had more upbeat and modern music, in almost every song there was a back up or a chorus part that was sung and there was also a lot of dancing and choreography involved in all of the songs too. She wore very revealing dresses that were very bright colours; this made her character look shallow and sinful. The sky was so blue that it seemed impossible and furniture was fake and multi-coloured. In the Albert and Hammerstein Movie Cinderella's Stepmother actually looked younger than her daughters, which to me, seemed kind of strange. Disney's music was Classical and very deep and meaningful, it also mainly consisted on solo or duet songs, where only one or two characters would sing at a time. The Disney cartoon had dull, dirty colours for the costume of the maid, Cinderella and a beautiful white, sparkling ball gown for when Cinderella made her appearance at the Prince's ball. This suit made the prince look the part handsome, rich, sophisticated, everything a prince is supposed to be. The change in costume also helped children (main target audience of the cartoon and movie) to understand what it would have been like between rich and poor in those days. I believe that this idea helps the audience to see the difference between the poor over worked maid and the elegant young "mystery" woman who woes Prince Charming at the Ball.
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