Forced Perspective
- Stereoscopic Vision 1:32
- Keep them over 30 ft away for the trick to work
- Main Street USA Disneyland California (forced perspective used to make the buildings
appear taller) 5:50 (basically each floor gets smaller so it looks taller)
- EPCOT america pavilion, made to look smaller, but the perspective is broken bc of
people standing next to it, the building is 5 stories tall 6:40
- Tower of Terror, elevator scene, walls and floors slanted, makes it seem 70ft long when it
is only 6 feet deep
- Aerial perspective, using light to dark colors to create depth 9:10
- 10:50 mt everest, trees hide it so it looks farther, darker colors at base, blues in white to
contrast sky
- Cars Land, rocks 11;34
- 12:10 uses plants to show distance. Uses lots of plants at the bottom, but uses mosses
to show distance by making it seem more clustered in the distance
- Castles - upper portion is thinner and set back so it seems higher
- 15:00 beasts castle, supposed to be the same size as cinderellas castle using forced
perspective but the trick doesn’t really work. The colors are too vibrant and the shadows
are too dark. If a bird or person stands next to it the trick is so easily broken
Design Secrets
- Roy and minnie sculpture at the front of disney world, artist mentioned that roy is like an
uncle cupped hands 1:00
- Mainstreet anywhere “at the turn of the century” (not just walt’s hometown)
- Built like a movie, pan shot to the castle, beckoning people
- Blaine gibson, mickey and walt statue, shared what he thought walt could be saying to
mickey “look at all we’ve accomplished and look at all the happy people” 3:20
- Designed to reduce stress at the start, either go forward or back, but when u get to the
castle there are 5 choices (adventureland and liberty square u can’t see any rides or any
of the main gateways whereas fantasyland there is a giant castle, and tomorrowland has
a giant archway to bring u in) 4:10
- “Tomorrowland is dedicated to our shared aspirations of the future”
- One foot in past one foot planted in future
- 5:30 move in fantasy land, cut in movies
- Different things pull you in depending on where u enter. Carousel vs. kinetics of the mine
train
- 8:00 talking bout the beast’s castle and how it tells a story
- 10:38 same thing about cinderella castle inside, tapestries tell stories. Clock at one
minute to midnight, magic never ends
Disney Underground | Hidden Secrets Beneath Magic Kingdom
- Called the utilidors
- 1:30 walt frontier to tommorwland, distracted
- Utilidors isnt underground its 1st floor, magic kingdom is 2nd floor
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Mouseketeer (cafeteria for cast members on break) 2:10
Kingdom Cutters 3:20
Never see garbage trucks, AVAC 5:30 Automated Vacuum System
Digital Animation Control System
Color-coding walls, and images 6:40
Disney Castles
- “There’s the beacon at the end of the tunnel! I need to go towards that” 0:53
- “It’s like a carrot on a stick. Gives you a goal off in the distance to follow.” 1:40
- “Walt and his love of fairy tales”
- Herb Ryman
- For disneyland they picked sleeping beauty castle although the movie wasn’t even out
yet “this is going to be an effective way to promote his own film”
- “Took pieces off of Chateau Chenonceau and Neuschwanstein” “it was inspired by real
castles”
- “Forced perspective. An old artists trick to make things appear larger or smaller than
they actually are.” 7:20 Dave Fisher
- “In pirates of the caribbean its used in the burning town, where you see the street kinda
wind up.”
- “Well with an area larger than DisneyLand it goes without saying that they’d need a
much much much larger castle.” 12:50
- “While the park was selling the movies, the movies were selling the park. It was a very
symbiotic relationship.” 13:50
- 189 feet magic kingdom
- Secret room inside
- Invitation only cinderella suite
- “How we laid out that park is extremely important to the prosperity and happiness and all
of those elements that go with the Chinese belief in feng shui” 25:29 “feng shui being a
traditional practice, that originated in ancient china, brings harmy by carefully arranging
the energy forces in your surroundings.” “it just makes you more balanced” worked with
feng shui master.
- Most castles face south bc good for pictures
Imagineering Story: S1 E1
- “The plaza or the hub, or the heart of Disneyland” 11:43
- “4 themed lands branched out from the center and embodied all of Walt’s interests.”
- A home for his animated film characters (fantasyland)
- The promise of the future (tomorrowland)
- The natural environment (adventureland)
- And the spirit of exploration (frontier land)
Disney
- Sounds
- Sights
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Smell
- Upon entering: popcorn
- Confectionary: smells super sweet without even entering store (disney pumps out
smells to bring customers in)
Color Scheme
Music
- Frontierland plays old revolution and war army songs instrumental
- The hub and mainstreet plays disney and old movie songs instrumental (example
oklahoma)
Kinetics
- Astro orbiter
- Splash mountain
- Carousel
- Mine train
Landmarks
- Space mountain
- Splash mountain
- Thunder mountain
- Castle
- Astro orbiter
Interactive
- Native Drums in adventureland
- Spinning water ball in tomorrowland
- Pooh bear Drums in fantasyland
- Sword in the stone fantasyland
Forced Perspective
- Rapunzel castle, hid a bit behind trees
- Haunted Mansion
- Castle
- Mainstreet
- Frontierland
- Beast castle
Details
- Disguises speaker as a stone, birdhouse (splash mountain)
- Cast member doors usually have a sign on them but some of them don’t and are
more hidden (epcot, minnie ride, castle)
- In Liberty Square there is a place for service dogs
- Different archway signs, dif signs, dif lampposts each land, dif cast member
outfits
- Dif bathrooms each land
How it forces you to act
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Upon entering you walk on the right side, right side of mainstreet has food
whereas the left side has shopping so that on the way out as you walk on the
right side you want to shop.
FantasyLand
- Vivid blues pinks and greens
- Pastels
- Brights
- Cottagecore warm browns
- Castle and kinetics of carousel and mine train to bring you in
- Giant Compass on ground when you walk through the castle?
- Fades into browns around rapunzel area in order to blend into liberty square and
haunted mansion
FrontierLand
- Liberty Square
- Disney wanted a place for you to learn and have fun
- Liberty Tree has 13 lanterns for the thirteen colonies
- Has the flags for the colonies (dates for when they were ratified)
- Has the liberty bell, the crack is in it
- From haunted mansion the color scheme goes from unsaturated blues
and reds like an old american flag
- Starts to become more old western.
- Gets a bit brighter and has more wood.
- More exaggerated signs
- Kinetics of splash mountain, the liberty belle (ferry), thunder mountain. Sound of
screams also draws you in
- Sewage path in frontierland. No indoor plumbing during that time. Also no public
restrooms. Sticking to time period
AdventureLand
- Kinetics of magic carpet aladdin
- Has the most diverse color scheme (if you can call it a color scheme)
- This is because it is covering multiple areas of the world
- Browns, bright corals, golds, royal pink and purples, dif architecture, a lot of brink
shackle roofs
TomorrowLand
- Kinetics of astro orbiter, people mover
- Landmark of space mountain and the tomorrowland archway
- Was originally more steampunk and now it has been transformed back to the
more timeless futuristic white that was original in the 70s
- Mainly whites and a few bright pastel blues, coral, and purple. (AKA Purple
WALL)
- Tomorrowland hub is shaped like a circle so you walk around and look at
everything
What to bring: Your coding table with as much of your data coded as
possible, and a draft of your main claim (the answer to your research
question) based on your analysis
Research Question:
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How does Disney use spatial rhetoric in Magic Kingdom to draw guests into their park in
order to make them feel fully immersed?
Answer:
- They use music, scents, color schemes, forced perspective, kinetics, costumes,
characters, interactive architecture