Marina Media assignment 2
Shrek is a DreamWorks
Animation produced film that was released in 2001 as a mainstream movie on both
VHS tapes and Digital Video Disc (DVD) however, it has not yet been released in
the format of Blue Ray discs.
The Mainstream
Movie was made as a computer animated comedy and cost around 60 million United
States Dollars to produce. The directors were Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson,
with stars casted such as Eddie Murphy (Donkey) Mike Myers (Shrek) and Cameron
Diaz (Princess Fiona) alongside stars such as Cody Cameron who played the
humorous Pinocchio and Conrad Vernon as the Loveable Gingerbread Man.
With
all the the Different sized animated characters it can be hard to choose the
right camera angle for scene "You have Shrek, who's huge, Fiona who is small and lithe, and a
short, squat Donkey," says Simon J. Smith, who headed the layout
team.
Shrek 2 is also a
DreamWorks Animation Produced film but was released 3 years after the first
film in 2004 and cost around 125 million United States dollars, over double
the amount that the first movie had cost to make, it was clear that
DreamWorks saw potential in the computer animated franchise and people seemed
to enjoy it too, a childhood fairytale that was reinvented in the form of a
comedy animation was a great concept and was good enough that the stars who
played the main three characters (Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona)
were glad to come back to the second one.
Clothing saw a big upgrade in shrek 2, blending from a procedurally-driven, tight- fitting top to a simulated
skirt using the proprietary emo and Maya . The studio also developed a new
fabric shader dealing with threads running in different directions and allowing
them to go from cotton to satin to silk. There was also
a noticeable advancement in fluid simulation in Shrek 2 for the from
here to eternity riff between Shrek and Fiona. Whereas Shrek merely offered a glass of milk, the
sequel offered dozens of layers of water elements by animating particles
for the waves as well as multiple splash layers on top of them. But the
crowning achievement of Shrek 2 was the introduction of global illumination.
The studio developed a bounce light technique that, given a key light,
automatically computes the correct bounce light off of the other objects in the
scene. They would then add additional fill light and tweak it from there.
These technological advances from the first film ensured that the studio would
have an easier time making the movie but it would, evidently cost more than
it's predecessor.
To this day, Shrek is still being
shown in cinemas such as Regent Street and Shrek 2 being shown in Hickory Ridge
Cinema. However, I feel that the films would have been shown across the world
in many different cinemas worldwide.
Both Shrek and Shrek 2 are rated U by
the British Board Film Classification as it is suitable for all ages and
includes light-hearted comedy, however it also says that it includes very mild
language and comic fight scenes that shouldn’t be harmful in any way but it is
a film best watched by families.
Shrek has only grown bigger over
the years and has accumulated a huge fan base who absolutely adore the
franchise and with 4 movies, 2 holiday specials and a spin-off all about the
very loveable Puss In Boots, who could blame them?
Puss In Boots was produced in 2011
and had fans screaming, with a 6.6 star rating the film may not look like much
at first but since it’s release the film has only grown in popularity. The film
follows the outlaw cat and his childhood egg-friend as they search for the eggs
of the fabled ‘Golden Goose’ to finally be able to clear his name, restore the
honor that he had lost and, ultimately to regain the trust of both his mother
and his town
Shrek The Halls was a TV short
made in 2007 and is a very well named Christmas short that was half an hour
long and told the tale of the beloved characters and how they put their own
spin on Christmas traditions. With similar reviews to that of the ‘Puss In
Boots” spin-off it, once again doesn’t seem too special but also like the now
beloved spin-off of the franchise this holiday special has rocketed up in
popularity since it’s release date, being able to keep up with the films legacy
in just a half-hour short.
The final film I want to talk
about is ‘Scared Shrekless’ a 21 minute Halloween Horror special that aired in
2010 and managed to receive better reviews than the other holiday special AND
the spin-off film. This film is about Shrek getting his Fairytale friends to
come up with scary stories for a contest and they have to spend a night in Lord
Farquaad’s haunted castle before the winner is revealed.
All the spin-offs and specials were
produced by Dreamworks Animation and was part of the Mainstream Film industry
at the time, in total, the entire franchise made US$3,547,384,012 and cost
US$575,000,000 to produce.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Puss in Boots: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Shrek the halls: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0897387/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Scared Shrekless: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1725156/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
And for the figures at the
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https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Shrek#tab=summary
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