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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.
             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 acting in this movie, it seemed as though they were real-to-life dolls.
             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. 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. 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. 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.


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