Finding Nemo on Ice -Media Meditation #6

On Saturday March 6th, my boyfriend and I went to see Finding Nemo on ice. Finding Nemo is a Disney Pixar film that it mainly directed towards kids. I got these tickets for my boyfriend for Valentines Day. It is one of his favorite movies and I thought it would be cute and something different. We were clearly the only teenagers in the audience. It was filled with little kids and parents. But overall it was a fun experience.

The last time I saw a Disney on ice show was about ten years ago or later. I don’t remember exactly. I figured this would be a perfect media experience to talk about for my last March Media meditation blog.

This was a huge MEDIA EXPERIENCE because it was representing a Disney movie. Movies are media, especially a movie that is an award winner and popular for many types of audiences. For example, I know adults, teenagers, and little kids who love this movie. Disney has always done a great job with allowing their films to be directed towards more than one target audience. This way they get way more viewers. The more viewers there are the more popular the film is, creating a media experience.

I remember when I was watching this I was thinking about all the different persuasion tools this show was allowing me to write about.

In my case it his big on the persuasion technique of Nostalgia. This is because I was able to think back to the first time I watched it in 4th grade or so. I remember I thought it was the funniest and cutest movie ever. It was one of my favorite movies as well. When I was looking at all the little kids jumping up and down watching this show on ice it reminded me on myself when I was little. I loved the character of Nemo and the whole movie in general.

Another persuasion technique used in the show is timing. This is because everything was on ICE. timing is very important because they are skating to words and music. if the skater/ character doesn't go at the right exact moment that they are supposed to appear on the ice then the whole show could fall behind, and ultimately fail.

Symbols also played a big role in this show because every costume that was made was representing the movie exactly. The symbols of this show were clearly the characters on the ice. If the costumes didn't look like the characters in the movie then there would be no point to the show for the little kids.

Another persuasion technique would be humor. In general the movie was funny. So in return the show was funny as well because it was a show just repeating the movie but on ice. Seeing the little kids laugh around me made it a more humorous and fun experience as well for me.

Hyperbole is a MAJOR aspect to this show as well. The characters on ice had to make their movements and sayings very exaggerated to make the kids believe in the Disney Pixar film on ice.

Reaches out to the Limbic brain at the beginning, in the middle it is more focused on the reptilian (based on survival) then falls back to the Limbic brain. This is because at the beginning the dad loses his son (Nemo) and at the end he reunites with Nemo. But in the middle the dad goes on a long journey to find his son, with many obstacles involved, that he manages to get through representing the reptilian brain. This also demonstrating how the show on ice also had a lot of emotional transfers.

Aesthetic shift (words to images)-Clearly this was present because in a kids eyes the words went from a TV screen to actual images right in front of them. The people were real to them, it was like the movie came to life.

Strength - was shown because Nemo was able to survive on his own without his dad.

Value Messages - The overall meaning of this film was to send a message out to the kids watching it to always listen to your parents.

This show was a very fun experience for me. It brought me back to being a little kid again, which is why I decided to write about it. This media experience was probably one of the best ones I have experience in a long time.