Analysis Of The Film 'Kirikou And The Sorceress'

Methodology and findings
This study explores the observation of worth that the student and supervisor experienced while viewing the animated movie on YouTube. Pointing out their opinion of what they think about the movie. And rating the quality of the movie from 1 to 5. The data was received from the participant after they had observed the movie. A short essay was written by the contributors about the movie and rating it. There are Six participants 4 students, the author and her supervisor.

Here are their analyses and opinions to the movie:
The author supervisor’s remark by Prof. Ondrej Slivka ArtD.
“The movie Kirikou and the Sorceress and sorcerer belongs to animated icons of world cinema. It was created end of the previous century, when

The story takes place in Africa and from it we can get a lot of information about the life, the tradition and the history of the African tribes. The animation is 2d (traditional hand drawn) and computer animation (2d in after effects), while in some backgrounds there is the use of 3d animation. The art style is based on the African culture and the colors that exist in the nature (like earth colors). The design of the characters, their clothes, hats, their belongings all of them are mirrored from the real life of these tribes. Also the flat space which is used as the base of the visual development of the film (for both characters and backgrounds), is visible by the lack of perspective, the parallel movement of the objects in comparison to the camera movement and by the use of similar (earth) colors and

He rated the movie 4/5.”

Alexandra Tilvescee commented that
“The film makes use of traditional African music. There are several leitmotifs occurring in the film (e.g. the song that is heard when the sorceress opens the door of the temple).
Certain characters portray different human defaults (the old woman that losses her house because of greed. The wise man of the village arrogance). The movement of the characters is not very realistic, rather it is a bit stiff and relies more on facial expression to convey human emotions. One of the questions that this film poses is what people do when they have too much power? Do they use it in a good way or in bad way?
A method to set the main characters apart is to place him over very bright backgrounds; The size of Kirikou also makes him unique and special, which makes him have the ability to do what other characters cannot.
Kikou eventually resembles Tarzan (A son of the jungle helping animals and also being helped by them as he set on a journey. This film is a coming of age story. His goal is to find his grandfather and to understand why the sorceress is so evil.
Another leitmotif is the song that Kirkou hums whenever he is