Movie Analysis: Wall-E

WALL-E Wall-e is an animated adventure movie that takes place on earth in the future. This story revolves around a trash collecting robot who has been left to clean earth from the mess humans left behind. One day, while going through his daily routine, Wall-e stumbles upon a seeding plant and carefully puts it in a boot. While returning home , he sees a giant ship land that dispatches a small flying robot, who goes around scanning the planet. Wall-e, struck with curiosity, hunts down the robot and meets, a female robot named Eve. Wall-e being isolated for so long he immediately falls for Eve. At first Eve is hostile towards Wall-e by firing her machine gun at but later comes around and Wall-e introduces himself. Wall-e takes Eve to his
The first half of this does not have dialog so sound plays an important role in this movie The simple “bleeps and bloops” that Wall-e makes helps the audience see exactly how Wall-E feels and can even understand the sequence of events without a single word being said Little things like music and dancing can show the relationship between Wall-E and Eve .Example of sound effects in this movie are Eve’s laser gun, in the movie they striked a slinky and hit it with an object to get the “boom” sound. In the movie they used a vocoder to modify how the robots talk and move. In the scene where Wall-e first meets Eve they use a vocoder to synthesize and make Eve and Wall-e sound like machines, later we hear a “wee” sound this indicates danger and helps us realize what’s going in the movie.. In this scene they also use a thunder sheet to get a rumble sound out that helps out set the scene. When eve scans we hear a “diing” sound this tells us that she is gathering information. Example of diegetic sounds in this movie are when the characters move and talk, this also synchronous because we can see where the noise is coming from. An example of a non diegetic sounds are the background music, this is also asynchronous because only the audience can hear