Walt Disney's Fantasia

Coming away from the more abstract animtion I decided to look at animation to sound where a narrative is portrayed and straight away I came across Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940).
The overall purpose of Fantasia was to bring Mikey Mouse back to life whos popularity had declined. The feature length film consists of eight animated sections set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski which all feature different narratives to fit with the mise-en-scene of each piece of music.

In this particular scene from the film 'The sorcerers apprentice' Mickey Mouse is almost used to portray the role of the conductor of the orchestra interacting with objects that are helped along with different sounds. This interaction between character and object portraying sound is a technique I want to play with within my animation for example shapes, objects, animals ect... The music in the scene is also used to portray the emotions and feeling of Mickey Mouse through out the animation with the music being jolly and then turning into panic and fear this is something that can also be considered when planning my narrative.

The Nutcracker Suite is split into a few different scenes where in which different creatures and flowers are used to represent the different sections within the music. Towards the start of the scene graceful faries, flowers and fish are used to connote a calm and peaceful tone within the music all with elongated fins, petals and wings gracefully moving around their surroundings. However this is then shortly followed with a juxtaposition of thistles that represent rusian dancers bouncing around the page in a frantic mannor as the pace of the music increases. This is also a technique to be considered - changing characters and story through out the scene creating a bit more of an abstract feel but each with their own narrative.