a) Genre
Like many animated Disney films, Frozen is a fantasy adventure that also incorporates themes of musicals and comedies.
b)Individual Animators
Lino DiSalvo, as well as working as an animator for Frozen, also worked as the head of animation for the film. DiSalvo has also worked with with Disney on some of their other CGI films, working as a supervising animator on projects such as Meet the Robinsons, Bolt and Tangled. DiSalvo credits some of Disney's previous films such as Pinocchio and The Lion King for getting him interested in animation. Frozen went on to receive multiple awards and praise by critics for its animation.
c)Production Process
Every twelve weeks, animators and other staff working the film would present their work for the film and receive notes and feedback on how others felt about it and what could potentially be improved; many films undergo a similar process, in what is called a test-group screening. This feedback would be taken into account would encourage and influence the scriptwriters, concept artists, storyboarders and animators in what they needed to do to get the best audience results for their final product.
d)Narrative/Storyline
Although inspired by The Snow Queen, Frozen follows a newer story plot. The story starts with our main characters when they're only children and are in a state of equilaibram untill Elsa accidentally hurts Anna with her ice powers and tries to hide her powers from all and so hides herself away.
The characters then transition into adulthood through a musical montage, showing key moments of their lives and establishes their personality. The rest of the opening shows the contrast between Elsa and Anna, as one fears being near other people whilst the other gets excited about the chance. The story continues and reaches a shocking moment when Elsa's powers are accidentally revealed in front of the whole Kingdom and so she leaves to hide in the mountains, turning Summer to Winter by mistake in the process. The audience follow Anna as she attempt to correct this mistake and find her sister, whilst along the way she meets an interesting collection of characters as she comes into contact with love, betrayal and nostalgia which each character she meets. Being a Disney film, the story does of course come with a happy conclusion, although it does come after a shocking twist that goes againt fairy tale conventions. However, the villain is defeated, Anna is saved thanks to her heroic actions and Elsa learns that through the power of love she is able to control her powers and restore the kingdom to how it was, ending with a satisfyng conclusion.
e)Target Audience
Whilst Frozen seems to mostly appeal to kids, it was intended to be a family film, with aspects that would entertain all ages, such as a talking snowman to entertain younger audiences and action and innuendo to entertain more mature audience members. However, whith both the main characters being female, sisters and princesses, you can easily argue that this film was aimed more towards a younge, female audience, espiecally since the movies merchendise is almost always created for young girls. Disney probably relied on the young female audience for its viewing figures due to their large popularity with princess movies and how much they interest small girls.
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f)Characters/Stars
The main character of Frozen is Queen Elsa, voice by Broadway star Idina Menzel, who was best known for her role as Elphaba in Wicked. Many viewers observed that the character of Queen Elsa is very similar to Elphaba as both of them are feared because their magic powers, but neither have any true evil intentions, they're just misunderstood. It is believed that the writers for Frozen were heavily inspired by Wicked so the chance to have one of its stars play the main role must have seemed like an ideal casting choice. Interestingly, Menzel auditioned for one of Disney's previous projects, to play Rapunzel in Tangled; Disney were impressed by her audition but felt she didn't suit the role, but saved her for their Frozen project.
Frozen also stars Josh Gad, Jonathon Groff and Santino Fontana, three more successful Broadway stars. You can assume that from Disney's casting choice mostly Broadway stars that they wanted the show to have a mostly Broadway feel about it, which makes sense for a large musical production.
Josh Gad plays Olaf, the talking snowman who fits into the plot as tolken comic relief character to make sure that children are still entertained and add comedy to avoid the atmosphere from ever getting too intense for a younger audience. Gad was known for his role as the humourous sidekick in the comedy musical The Book of Mormon, so he suited the role of a comedic character and would often entertain people working on the film by ad-libbing and experimenting with the script. One of the writers of The Book of Mormon was Robert Lopez, who worked as the songwriter for Frozen, so it's likely that Lopez recommended Gad for the project from his experience with him.
Jonathon Groff, an award winning Broadway actor in his 20s, supplied the voice for Kristoff, the film's love interest. Santino Fontana, another young Broadway actor, played Prince Hans, who at first appears to be the love interest, but in a shocking twist towards the end of the film is revealed to be the antagonist. Kristen Bell plays Anna, and also inspired many of the characters facial designs.
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