애니메이션「마당을 나온 암탉」과 만화『마당을 나온 암탉』의 비교 연구

Abstract

This writing compares and analyzes popular narrative strategies of OhSeong-yoon direcotr’s animation‘ Leafie, a Hen into the Wild’and inwhich creative ways the popular narrative strategies were designed whenthe work was reconstructed from a movie into a cartoon. This paperintends to put forth basic views for the researchers or professionals’reference who plan to reconstruct storytelling in a creative way in thefuture based on this. The animation opened in 2011 was targeted for general audiences forall families by resuming the format of family drama combining thecoming-of-age stories of ‘Leafie’and‘ Green’. The animation has morecomplex layers of structure than the children’s story. The animationadjusted the personalities of characters for more creative adaptation ofthe story and added supporting characters that did not exist in theoriginal material. The place of adventure changed from ‘reservoir’to‘Upo swamp’to deliver lively images of nature effectively highlightingthe adventurous characters of Leafie and Green. The cartoon consisting of the total of three books is a transition from a moving picture to printed medium creating differences in the method ofexpression. Each book has its own distinct character where the first bookmixes the adventurous narrative and drama when Leafie steps into thewild and watches the birth of a duck. The second book focuses on thegrowth of Green rather than Leafie’s life displaying various events tocreate a harmony of growth, adventure, dueling, and comic relief. Thethird book is about Green becoming a guard with a heroic narrative andcontains dynamic scenes to illustrate this. As such, each central story from the cartoon was designed for classes ofreaders who are seeking various kinds of entertainment employingdiversified strategies to convey a narrative. However, the carton’sstrategy of focusing on characteristics of each book resulted in theconsiderable restriction of philosophical themes such as circular naturalview and respect for life that were found in the original story andanimation.