Group meeting

Today we had a group meeting in which we discuss the essentials on music/sound in animation. We talked about how animation makes an emotional impact on the audience. For example, in Toy Story 2 with the scene where Jessica is explaining her past which the music in the background plays a huge part in. We talked about Steamboat Willie (1928), an early animation that sound plays a huge part in. Tom and Jerry was also mentioned as music in the background corresponds to the emotions of the scenes and there is very little dialogue in Tom and Jerry. We talked about animations that are dedicated to music such as Fantasia. People who are involved in creation for sound in animation were also brought up such as Louis Armstrong, who played music for an animation, Alf Clausen, who composed music for The Simpsons or Carl Stalling, who was a composer for early cartoons. We even talked about the more popular ones such as Allen Menken, who composed scores for Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, Alladin and A Christmas Carol. Finally we talked about the modern ones that feature classically scored music such as Moana, Finding Nemo, How to Train your Dragon and even looked at the modern ones that are dedicated to sound such as WALL-E, which barely has any dialogue.