Scenarios and emotions in Coco (2017)

Abstract

The scenarios are one of the essential elements of the Audiovisual Narrative. They help to contextualize the stories, but this is not their only function: they also have an important emotional role. For its creative and emotional freedom and its aesthetic possibilities, Animation Cinema stands out in the creation of cinematic spaces, with examples as representative as Coco (2017), winner of two Oscars. Therefore, our objectives are to highlight the relevance of the staging in the current Animation Cinema, and to know the relationship between the scenarios and the emotions of the characters in the feature film. The results obtained through the analysis of 30 of the scenarios that appear in the film qualitatively and quantitatively lead us to deduce that: the scenarios act as intensifiers of the emotions of the characters, while reflecting the inner world of some of the the protagonists. In addition, they help contextualize different situations and generate an aesthetic dichotomy that guides the viewer through history.