Villacreces: Beowulf vs Sea Monsters

The movie Beowulf (2007) by the director Robert Zemeckis uses the technique of " motion capture". This technique basically record movement and transforms it to a digital model. The reason why this technique was employed was because, Beowulf is an action movie, and the movement and actions performed by the characters in the movie are impossible to make with live actors. With this in mind, the creators of this movie were able to portray the characters such as Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel's mother, and other characters in the movie. The portrayal of the characters is ok, but the rest of the aspects of the movie have some flaws, that to not make justice these. 

For example, the scene in which Beowulf describes his battle against the Sea Monsters. In this scene the image of Beowulf is good, his physical appearance looks like the rest of the movie, but the portrayal of the water is not very good. Water shines, water has different movement and there is not an uniform movement as it is portrayed in this scene. The animatos did not give water a real appearance as they do to the monster and to Beowulf. If you do mise scene, you notice that the lighting of the scene is dull and does not focus on beowulf, the monster or the water, it is just plain and dull. The dominant of the scene is the monster and Beowulf flying towards him. The form of this scene is closed, the fact that there is monster makes the scene stylish and with details, which makes it not real and made up. Also how the movie is made with computer animation makes it closed. There is a social camera proxemix and a wide shot, you can see the monsters the character and the setting at the same time. The character proxemix is persona, because is Beowulf against the monster, its their moment before one of the makes the first move. 

In my opinion the movie does a good portrayal of the characters of the movie, because even though the movie is computer animated you still have the essence of the actors that portray each one of them. You know it is them. The rest of the aspects of the movie such as the battle seen and background are not employed well.