Masha I Medved

This assignment was to blog about animated clip and sound used with it. Since I do not watch many animated shows, I thought would could be better than using one of the cartoons that my sister likes to watch. This cartoon is semi similar to the characters of Tom and Jerry ( cat and mouse) except its a little girl named Masha and a Bear.  Here is a youtube link if anyone would like to check it: Masha i Medved

In this clip I have noticed how bold the "direct sounds" use is. They are definitely overused, but I think in a sense of animated cartoon with not that much of conversation that really helps to make the cartoon come to life.  Also in this cartoon we notice the color change in orchestral music for each tune or character. For example, when we see a Bear on the screen, music is played by low brass instruments and it is slower than it is when we see Masha the little girl, music than becomes more cheery, abrupt, mischievous. Also when we see the new character a wolf introduced on the screen the orchestration again becomes different.  There is also quite a bit of punctuation used in the cartoon to represent the characteristic, personality of each character.  Also with the use of punctuation a lot of the times it is done through orchestration, yet there are also couple direct sounds that are used to punctuate the importance of gesture. Sometimes when the character speaks and we hear a delay in the sound brings more comic feel to the cartoon which is what cartoons are all about I guess.  I have also noticed in the cartoon that with use of reverb the perception of place becomes more present (example when wolf is howling), which does not match at all times with the rest of the story.  This is a cute little cartoon! Hope you all enjoy it!