A dog’s journey 2019’s film

A dog’s journey 2019’s film

Introduction

Animals are entertaining to watch. Modern directors are exploiting this particular undoubted fact to advantage their media programs commercially. There are several ways in which the directors are using the natural and unnatural characteristics of animals through their exhibition. For instance, the directors can film animals in zoos fighting where they allow them to fight until one of them is severely injured or even killed. This act is very entertaining for most of the program viewers. Most of the European countries such as North America have greatly outlawed and condemned dog fighting, cockfighting, and bear-baiting. However, it is evident that these activities still take place and have a lot of followers. A vast majority of people are appalled when they read the stories of these animal behaviors. These forms of entertainment or sports result in the infliction of pain and suffering on the animals. Directors are at the forefront in filming various animal behaviors and traits into the social media platforms (Morey, 245-248). They have innovated and implemented different filming techniques, which they use to shoot these animals without affecting their characteristics. The paper explores some of the film techniques used by directors and cinematographers to represent animals utilizing the case of a dog’s journey film in 2019.

The paper begins by showing how the author represents dogs in the film using human being names. He trains and gives them character names and various roles to communicates his theme. The author coins that animals can as well have excellent acting abilities as their human counterparts. This results from the fact that they don’t coerce their Gad to do the substantial lifting roles. Most of the film directors use computer-generated programs to generate these types of animal films using modern technology. With the rapidly evolving technology, Contemporary directors are exploiting it by creating commercial animal films and programs. This critical information was released by “The New York Times” publication.

According to the magazine, 70% of the animal species featured in the films were computer-generated. The directors use highly sophisticated animation to generate and replicate images and the behaviors of featured animals (Rabiger and Hubris-Cherrier, 9-24). The article revealed that most of the films in the social media platforms are not necessarily pictures of live animals. It is hard for audiences to distinguish videos of live animals and animation movies since they are very similar. Nevertheless, the images and behaviors of animated films are identical to those of live animals. For instance, in the case of a journey of a dog film, animals are delegated with roles similar roles as human actors. Shockingly, the animal characters fit in the character roles very well only after a couple of months in training.

Sound and lighting are some of the primary film techniques that directors and cinematographers have used in the dog film journey to enhance the quality of the film. Lighting and inserting soundtracks in animal filming play a significant role in increasing the quality of the film. Soundtracks are very critical in supplementing the video with a tone mood and hence making the film to be more interesting. Directors use various sound racks to describe environments, characters, and climates of animals. These soundtracks create a sense of reality to the video viewers, thus making the video livelier. Lighting is a very significant aspect of video creation. Besides creating a high-quality video, the directors should ensure that the videos are well lit. The viewers create more emphasis on more explicit videos. The directors should use technology in a way that they grab the attention of both the adults as well as kids (Rabiger and Hubris-Cherrier, 25-37). They should make them feel that they are witnessing the live videos of the animals. Directors have used a combination of machines to ensure that they generate a quality video in the case of “a dog’s journey in 2019”. The film has clear dog pictures, which are accompanied by soundtracks depending on the mood in that particular scene. For instance, the trainers use the Gad vocals to verbalize how the Bailey dog feels when he gets a chance to meet CJ at a gas station. There is a sense of longing in the dog’s eye, which makes the audience to relate these specific emotions.

Some directors use various animals as onscreen actors to present a variety of legal, technical, choreographic, medical, and strategic difficulties, as seen in the case of the dog’s journey film. Animals require medical insurance just as human performers (Rabiger and Hubris-Cherrier, 25-37). The article describes how a character dog feels happy and anxious when it is given a chance to meet its friend in a gas station in New York. However, since animals are incompetent linguistically, cinematic and choreography trickery is needed to replace live filming. For instance, the article reference uses dogs to demonstrate specific difficulty. It describes a scene where several dog characters and human beings to express a particular family that kills an average of four to five dogs in every movie scene. The family subjects the dogs to suffering and eventually kills them as a result of hatred.

Filming with animals is extremely demanding and often arcane, as the author describes in the dog’s journey film article. He shows how the directors have to rest animals between takes because of the dogs tiring at a rapid rate. It mostly happens they are under the intense heat of lights. Animals react adversely, especially when exposed to prop noise. With the construction of the screen action involving animal performances, it is critical to understand that the films usually have the intention of representing a feeling of danger and excitement. Therefore, legal authorities should take care of ensuring that nourishment, protection, and animal safety is put into consideration in the film industry. The USA government has come up with rules and policies that reject the use of apparatus used to trip animals. Also, it emphasizes that animals should not be treated unacceptably.  Besides, there are set rules describing the safest ways to shoot animal scenes. In the case of the dog’s journey film, the author condemns the act of infringing the dogs their rights by subjective them to suffering and mass killing (Morey, 245-248). He shows how dogs make friends with other people from different families when they pay a visit, especially if their families subject them to suffering.

Moreover, directors use a variety of scene simulation techniques to capture the events that take place in the dog’s journey film. Some of these events include screen background projection, animatronics, manipulated camera shots, padded environments, editing, and specially designed programs. These are very critical tasks in the entire process of animal video creation. A camera shot can be described as the amount of space that is seen in a frame. Camera frames are very significant since they introduce the characters, themes, and settings of cinematic techniques. Camera movements are another critical aspect of an animal video generation. They are things that the audience can interpret without thinking about their cinematic techniques. The purpose of the camera movements is to crane, to track shot, and to pan. Editing is one of the central processes during the video animal generation process (Rabiger and Hubris-Cherrier, 397-428). Editing is done after the video shooting activities are finished. Directors use a lot of time while editing to produce a high-quality video that is free from errors. Directors ensure that there is a continual flow of the video from one scene to another. Also, he/she is responsible for guaranteeing that the plot and character development are making sense throughout the film. Some of the basic editing techniques include cutaway, dissolve, and wipes. The director and cinematographer of the dog’s journey film have applied these techniques successfully and thus coming up with a high-quality film. The film has a continuous flow of events throughout the entire movie.

Directors use these techniques to improve the quality of videos they film in various programs, as seen in the case of the dog’s journey film. However, this is a very tedious process and generally consumes a lot of time. The ability to design quality video animation requires a variety of knowledge, skills, and expertise. These processes distinguish professional cinematographers and thus increasing the competitiveness of their programs in the market.  For example, the animal psychiatrist paces a suicidal tiger on a window ledge. The director films a dog walking on a green screen with tears on its face and combines with an optical image that is designed on a window ledge. Most of the directors generally use a two-dimensional computerized imaging technique. Three-dimensional animations enable the directors to create computer-generated images, especially onto the animal images. (Rabiger and Hubris-Cherrier, 397-428). In this case, the director frequently uses stuffed stand-ins.

Conclusion

The tricks that the directors, cinematographers, and trainers use to produce realistic animal and bizarre performance on the screen are uncountable. There are several tricks and techniques; the directors use to represent animals. Efficient directors and cinematographers can apply a range of filming techniques to create high quality videos without altering the theme of the video. Directors should ensure that they provide a variety of videos on their social media platforms to offer their customers a variety of options. It is impossible to underestimate the role of technology in the entertainment sector (Rabiger and Hubris-Cherrier, 9-24). The directors must innovate and implement various computerized programs that will enable them to provide quality videos for their customers. Cinematographers should use high quality instruments in their film making. A lot of people watch the video due to their quality of clearness. Explicit videos are likely to record a high number of viewers compared to blur images. In the competitive media market, directors must ensure that they cast programs that are well equipped with various filming techniques.

Works Cited

Morey, Darcy F. “Epilogue: One Dog’s Journey.” Dogs, pp. 245-248.

Rabiger, Michael, and Mick Hubris-Cherrier. “Developing as a Director.” Directing, 2020, pp. 25-37.

—. “The Director and Production Tech.” Directing, 2020, pp. 397-428.

—. “The World of the Film Director.” Directing, 2020, pp. 9-24.