Analysis of Robin Hood

Robin Hood has a lot of history behind the story. Robin Hood is a figure from English folklore his story originates from medieval times but they remain significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny. His band of 'Merry Men' are also included in this folklore, a large group of sixty outlaws. He has been the subject of numerous films, television series, books, comics, and plays. In the earliest sources Robin Hood is a commoner, but he would often later be portrayed as the dispossessed Earl of Huntingdon.

There has been many different telling's of Robin Hood including "Robin Hood Men in Tights", "Miss Robin Hood" and the childs animated version. I am going to analyse the animated version of the film. I am doing this just to experiment and look at different ways of making a children's adventure film.

The film starts off with the song and the rooster starting off the story. It as this point that you realize that the film has a narrator. The credits are shown through a story book style to make it more interesting for the films target audience. The Book illustrates the credits through pictures of the characters and then the names of the actors playing the voices. The moving pictures in the credits are also more interesting for children as they don't get bored of lists of names. The sound in the film is also very child like as it is very humerous. The mise en scene in the scene is very colourful all the characters are very brightly coloured. The props in the credits are all musical instruments that the characters are playing along to the music, this brings the music in to the scene even more. The lighting in the scene is also very bright and colourful, this is probably due to the fact that the film is animated and so all the lighting has to be put in and is not left natural. The camera work is very basic although ther are some different depths used. There is no camera work used as it is a cartoon and so there are no recorded images. the effect of a camera however is used as the viewer looks into what is meant to be the viewers eyes.