The Fifth Element

Well I did pay close attention to how each scene went into the next. You notice immediately that they wanted an action relation from one scene to effect the next scene by a similare action or situation. It was pretty cool. I never really paid attention to that in the previous times I watched this movie. The music selection for the action scenes were very different. If you close your eyes and just listen you would have no clue there was an action packed fighting scene taking place.

Snow White and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

I was not aware that I have not seen this movie before. The musical aspect reminds me of The Wizard of Oz, but it makes more sense to me in an animated movie. The framing seems to always to include the animals as one character. See Cloudy with a Chance of Meatbalss after Snow White made it very obvious how far animated movies have come with todays computer animation compared to the actual drawing and picture book type movie like Snow White, on glaring difference was discussed in our class. There is a lot more going on within the frame of the todays animated pictures, almost like they are seeing how many different character and actions they can fit in each scene. In Snow White the frame was very still and had no action going on other than the character the scene was focused on. The colors are much more vivid in todays animated movies, compared to Snow White that consist of very dull colors.

The Wizard of Oz

One thing emphasized in this movie is the colors. Being a movie that starts out in black and white, it's clear they wanted the color to grab the viewers. Do to the time the movie was made and the technology available back then, the quality of the color is not that impressive, but the multiples of colors used took full advantage of having color in the film.
From the first scene it was obvious that settings were created back drop, you can see where the floor ends and the back drop begins. The resources for special effects in this movies were clearly limited, from the string attached to the lions tail to make it appear that it was moving naturally to the smoke coming from the floor in a specific area when the wicked witch appeared and vanished.
It's amazing how simple editing these days will hide all of those things, but I guess those little imperfections also add to the fame that this film has received for so many years.