The Jungle Book BTS

Jungle Book Behind The Movie Video
- They created a whole new opening castle visual. It was the camera leading into the jungle. This was done to match to the theme of the movie and to create a more masculine theme to the movie as the usual Disney castle can be viewed as being girly and being linked to princesses.
- The movie opened with the book, like it did in the animated version, the book was the original one. This created the original feel to the movie.
- They created concept art of what certain scenes would look like.
- The movie is shot in front of a blue screen.
- They would watch the filming on a virtually animated screen to see what it would look like once edited to get rid of the blue screen and create the virtual world.
- LED panels were used to project light during filming to get the best lighting on the characters.
- They had pre animated elephants and put them on panels of LEDs to project the shadows of them onto the character when he was bowing in front of them.
- There was a turn table to make it seem as though Mowgli was walking straight through the jungle.
- A motion builder is used to further develop the animation. It is the first stage after the scenes have been shot on the set. It fine tunes the animation; working on further lighting, shadows and composition.
- Puppeteers were used to keep the animation fresh. These make it easier for the actor of Mowgli to react to them when they are showing expressions too.
- For certain characters (the puppeteers) they did motion capture or reference cameras for body movements.
- They used pathetic fallacy. They used certain weathers to portray certain moods, e.g. raining when they are saying goodbye to portray a sad mood.
- They tried to relate to the original movie by having the cast be well known actors that people can recognise by their voices. This is what they did in the original movie.
- Each actor portrayed the voices of their character in their own unique ways which showed the personality of the character, e.g. Idris Elba had a deep, echoing voice for Shere Khan which showed his power and dominance.
- All roles were male in the original movie, so they decided to change it up in the new version by making the voice of the snake Kaa be a female.
- The composers dad worked for Disney for many years.
- There was a 143 piece orchestra.
- They wanted the music to be classic, timeless Disney music, with hints of colour.
- They wanted to play snippets of the original songs to give the movie the Disney feel.
- The original songwriter of the original movie went to the team and created new lyrics to the songs to create some new aspects to the movie.