Analysis of the Spatial Configuration in Cinema on a Human Scale: ‘The Secret World of Arrietty’

Abstract

Space design is a research field with a broad framework that interacts with different disciplines. Scale, one of the most important components of this field, is used to increase the cinematic effect in the configuration of f ilm spaces. While literature has several studies on cinema and space, little research has been conducted on animation and human size. Because of the use of two distinct human scales and the association of houses with these, this work differs from similar researches. This study aims to reveal the impact of the human scale on the production of the spatial configuration by using the experimental aspect of the cinema. The objective is to evaluate data that effectively informs the audience about scale differences. In this study, the qualitative research method was used through descriptive analysis. The study was conducted by coding, analyzing, and following the findings through scenes in the example of the film The Secret World of Arrietty. As a result of coding, f ive main themes were obtained. The themes with the highest frequency value were human scale and space. In the conclusion we state that the use of the combination of codes in cinema and perception changes with the change in human size allowing audiences to transfer the meaning.

Keywords

• human scale
• spatial configuration
• anime
• cinema
• space