Reference research of fairy tale film and post-production (2)

Fairy tale films present with live action is usually incorporate with significant visual effects Greenhill and Matrix (2010). Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam are both famous fairy tale film directors. Although their film genre are the same, they are in different style. The key point should be the post-production way. For example, ‘Sweeney Todd’ is a black fairy tale film, the visual effect is dark and bloody, and the sound of it is horror and abnormal. However, Gilliam’s Brazil presents science fiction movie features, creates fictitious scenes and the sound of it was more nature than ‘Sweeney Todd’. These two films are presented in different way that is mainly because of post-production.

Korris and Macedonia (2002) has pointed out that many conventional film-making techniques are constantly replaced by digital nonlinear editing in post-production with substantial effects and tweaks made digitally. According to Greenhill and Matrix (2010) ‘Fairy tales are fictional narratives that combine human and nonhuman protagonists with elements of wonder and the supernatural’. To achieve the supernatural plots, post-production is necessarily to make surreal elements, such as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, it used many visual effects and sound effects create the made-up story. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s movie Amelie from Montmartre consisted by warm colour vision and special effects to develop the fairy tale characteristic story.

David(1988)’s theory about narration film is that “’Narration of the subject’ is strictly identified with the formal possibilities of deictic representation in the film text, that is, its organization of point of view and its threading of the spectator’s vision therein”. In other words narration could present the subject of film by its structure and the connection with audience’s imagination. Fairy tale film is also requiring narration to create the fantastic plot that influence people’s thoughts about films even about themselves.