Research Paper On Persepolis

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi - Director/Author Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969. She grew up in Tehran, studied in Vienna before she relocated to France in 1994. In Paris, through fellow comic book artists, she was introduced into the Atelier des Vosges, an artist studio which gathered major, contemporary comic book artists. In Persepolis, published in October 2001, she described the Iraq-Iran war and her teenage years until she left for Vienna at the age of fourteen. Persepolis is co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, and is her first feature film. Vincent Paronnaud - Director

Vincent Paronnaud a.k.a. Winshluss, was born in 1970 in La Rochelle. He is a major underground comic book artist. Marc Jousset - Art Director

Marc Jousset has

Persepolis is Benet's first film score.

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This 2D movie was made in a visual style that reflects a live action movie and aesthetically draws from cinematic techniques. The characters are only but black and white and the backgrounds are all drawn from real locations that have been reproduced in varying shades of grey. Editing also reflects that of a action film, with sections jumping (jump cuts?) between perspectives to communication movement during action scenes.

There is a strong influence of the author, Marjane Satrapis’ favourite German expressionist filmmaker F.W.Murnau (Sunrise 1927) in this animation reflected in the use of shadows and dramatic stylisation.

The movies animation was completed by two studios, “Je suis bien content” and Pumpkin 3D, and was created in a completely traditional way without the use of computer generated images. This was in the main to ensure that lines held definition when enlarged. Over 600 model sheets were required for each character, and this may be a record for an animated movie. Using only black and white there was nowhere to hide mistakes in the drawings which all had to be precise and