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
I concentrated mostly on costume (which was mentioned above) and partly on the scenery and backgrounds of the movies as a part of the visual art section. The music in both of the versions was quite different from one another. 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. 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.
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